Example sentences of "[adv] there were the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally there were the usual questions of national pride and influence . |
| 2 | Also there were the inevitable sewerfuls of National Front and similar white trash , wrapped up nice and warm in their West Ham and Millwall scarves . |
| 3 | Somewhere there were the right words and he would speak them . |
| 4 | Then there were the new country groups which truly span the globe : Jordan , Algeria , Poland , Hungary , Czech and Slovak Federal Republics , Yugoslavia , Macao , Malaysia and Taiwan . |
| 5 | Even for a short weekend trip , Sally , his widow , wrote there would be ‘ a dictionary , the complete works of Shakespeare , the Oxford Book of English Verse , the Koran , a Larousse , an atlas , together with paperback copies of the Oxford Book of Quotations , a reader 's encyclopaedia … ’ and then there were the new novels and biographies and history bought in paperback raids . |
| 6 | Then there were the other ones , the disappointed ones . |
| 7 | Then there were the hot , spiced , yeast buns with their shine of sugar on top . |
| 8 | Then there were the molasse-type sands , which in their drab , khaki featurelessness are recognisable in the smallest exposures from Spain to Bulgaria and beyond . |
| 9 | Then there were the nice people who were n't interesting , and you did n't want to know what they thought of anything . |
| 10 | The bald election result was bad enough , but then there were the personal touches : that brave but shattered look on Glenys ' face as Neil announced his resignation , the dreadful picture on the back of the Independent of a group of City dickheads celebrating their unexpected winnings , and the downright irritating news that my fellow chatterer on Stop the Week , Milton Shulman , had made a packet at Ladbroke 's predicting the correct result . |
| 11 | And then there were the vaudeville films . |
| 12 | Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other . |
| 13 | Then there were the sheer indignities of a professional cricketer 's life — the separate entrances , changing facilities , menial jobs to do around the club , even the placing of the man 's initials after his surname to signify servile status . |
| 14 | Then there were the chronic sick who had to be looked after . |
| 15 | And then there were the free pop concerts which attracted as many as a quarter of a million hippies . |
| 16 | then there were the Manx shearwaters — just like small albatrosses that live in burrows , along with puffins and rabbits , to avoid the predatory greater black backed gulls . |
| 17 | Then there were the sweeping layers of thin gauzy curtains that swished elegantly back to reveal the screen . |
| 18 | Then there were the enraged gay groups who deemed this screenplay to be politically incorrect , and who disrupted filming by encouraging passing motorists to ‘ honk if you support our boys in the Gulf ’ . |
| 19 | Then there were the continuing problems with Washington over sterling convertibility , Imperial Preference and tariffs . |
| 20 | Then there were the republican parties who focused their attention on Westminster elections . |
| 21 | Well majority er then in them days we were Welsh they are they are English , they 're English erm Congregational Christ Church and then there were the English presbyterian across the road . |
| 22 | Then there were the mass flights from the industrial cities of European Russia after 1917 , besides many regional movements too numerous to mention . |
| 23 | Certainly there were the broad guidelines of dispersal and decentralization . |