Example sentences of "[coord] [ex0] were [n mass] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 2 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 3 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 4 | We had got to a size where we needed an injection of institutional money and there were people who wanted to retire . |
| 5 | But there were people who took poems like this at face value and were shocked . |