Example sentences of "[conj] there was [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moore himself said later that there was little to be said in favour of this account . |
| 2 | The different agenda and methodology for each process meant that there was little in common between them . |
| 3 | ‘ Red or white , darling ? ’ he called , seeing that there was one of each . |
| 4 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 5 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 6 | He became keenly aware that there was much to be learned from practice overseas but his method remained essentially descriptive , allowing his meticulously detailed reports to speak for themselves . |
| 7 | The fact that the two hospitals were less than three miles apart , that they had a combined acreage of 375 acres , that they were outmoded from the point of view of treatment , and that both had ‘ spare capacity ’ because of the continued decline in the long-stay population meant that there was much to be gained from merger . |
| 8 | The Law Commissions of England and Scotland in their joint Report on the Interpretation of Statutes in 1969 and the Renton Committee on the Preparation of Legislation both recognised that there was much to be said in principle for relaxing the rule but advised against a relaxation at present on the same practical grounds as are reflected in the authorities . |
| 9 | Not that there was much of that around here . |
| 10 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 11 | Anxious to get news of this latest development back to their own offices and realising that there was unlikely to be any more to be gleaned from this unpleasant vigil , the remaining newspeople departed as the small convoy of police traffic vanished into the maw of the blizzard . |
| 12 | Not that there was any of the same obvious strain with Blufton to convert his visitors to his vision of the truth . |
| 13 | and McNeill J. , had to consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus , where justices had refused bail on the ground that there was likely to be interference with witnesses and had at an application for a further remand in custody declined to hear the defendant 's counsel who wished to renew the application for bail on the basis that there had been a material change of circumstances . |
| 14 | but I think there was an awareness that there was likely to be much more opposition to , to land reform in the south . |
| 15 | 4.1 Before any new structures are agreed there are already 63 less full time jobs than there was prior to the introduction of Council Tax . |
| 16 | Colonial merchants might not like the English monopoly of trade , but they wanted their markets in England , so there was unlikely to be opposition to the general principles of the Acts of Trade . |
| 17 | If the recommendations became law , unauthorised entry to a computer through carelessness would technically be an offence , so there was more of an onus on companies to ensure that all employees knew exactly what they were authorised to do , a spokesman said . |
| 18 | And there was one of last Christmas ' bestsellers : ‘ I was watching television about two years ago when I saw this ad . |
| 19 | And there was one of many heartrending stories about a doctor . |
| 20 | Well the Bill was , who was the manager in those days was very much the manager , and there was one of the directors used to play for the Villa , and he used to more or less look after the playing side which the rest of the directors never seemed to interfere with , they , they left the management up to the manager the selection of the team , Bill and the trainer when they were in the second division was Arthur who 's manager of Derby County now , he had the , I believe he had a sad time when he was at Walsall he , he lost his wife in a car accident and |
| 21 | And there was much in that , for the policy of these raiding parties was always to loot , never to attempt the towns or the castles if there was strong possibility of resistance . |
| 22 | She would read and everything else , and there was nine of us children had that much time , but we had a very happy childhood in lots of ways . |
| 23 | He had been the estate bursar at Oxford , and there was little about farming , estate management , rural development and conservation that John Higgs did not know . |
| 24 | Although few British citizens fought in Spain , and there was little in the way of public protest and demonstration , there is ample evidence of public concern — particularly for the Spanish Republican government . |
| 25 | And there was hundreds of contracts like that in the quarry , everybody was on their own for t thing , you know . |
| 26 | She had been in the post for only seven months when the inquiry started , had little public or professional support , and there was unlikely to be any backlash to her being blamed . |
| 27 | I mean we did n't know this , well Mark knew , but I did n't know and there was some as Germans and some as English forces it was really good and it got erm the D J got all the old records and all that really was a good night ! |
| 28 | Flint arrow heads and many waste flakes have been found and there was half of a stone mace head of the period 1500–2000 BC . |
| 29 | and there was another with a child |
| 30 | However , there were attempts at a private member 's bill : the Rape ( Anonymity of Victims ) Bill was introduced by Mr F.P. Crowder , and there was another in 1975 by Jack Ashley , stemming from concern that raped women were not reporting the crime because of fear of press publicity . |