Example sentences of "[was/were] there [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I never took that er er as a stance erm bearing in mind that er we were there as the bulwarks to defend the interests of the membership in general . |
| 2 | A good many were there for the fun , rather than any dedication to the anti-Fascist cause . |
| 3 | They were there for the convenience of rail passengers . |
| 4 | Black Babies were there for the saving . |
| 5 | Ill omens were there for the taking . |
| 6 | Well , disappointment for Oxford United ; Charlton were there for the taking , United let them off the hook . |
| 7 | hard on the heels of wimbledon comes another British institution and that 's the Royal Rowing Regatta at Henley … the women were there at the weekend and that 's where we start our roundup |
| 8 | ‘ We have a number of differing accounts from the people who were there at the time . |
| 9 | In addition to fully appreciating the significance and context of much of the material they wanted to use , pupils also intended to create new material themselves by acting roles as if they were there at the time . |
| 10 | The Society has displayed confidence in the contributors by printing their nostalgic talk verbatim and the result is a fascinating account of the town in the earlier part of this century , through the voices of the men and women who were there at the time . |
| 11 | Some may find the external colours of the dome surprising , but apparently these reds , blues and creams are faithful to the colours that were there at the end of the 17C . |
| 12 | On the second day of the hearing when the reasons were given the parties ' legal representatives were there with the exception of the representative of the guardian ad litem . |
| 13 | When you said you were at Acre you were there with the King . |
| 14 | Millions poured on to the streets of London on 29 July 1981 to be able to say they were there on the day , to tell their children and grandchildren what it was like . |
| 15 | What detailed changes were there during the period when D was formed ? |
| 16 | I believe that truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 17 | Truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 18 | A traveller or two , pedlars and shepherds , were persuaded to join the few hundred who were there by the weight of glowering disapproval from dozens of faces when they showed signs of passing by . |
| 19 | The fact that virtually all of them cross the Roman road , which was created in the first century AD , suggests that at least some of these features were there in the landscape before the road was built ; here , as elsewhere , it looks as if the road was put in arbitrarily across the landscape with little heed to existing features , much as when new roads and motorways are built today . |
| 20 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | One morning when they went to school the little bunnies were there in the cage and they were all very happy . |
| 23 | How many MPs were there in the House of Commons in 1991 with the surname Marshall ? |
| 24 | How how many were there in the family at the time ? |
| 25 | But the descriptions in the diary were there in the forefront of her mind and they stopped her . |
| 26 | Randolph Churchill and Arthur Brittenden were there in the media vanguard . |
| 27 | She did not actually concentrate on the birds which happened to be there , nor did she feel any desire to feel them or encourage them to come near her — but she was quite able to relax knowing that they were there in the background . |
| 28 | They were there before the rush . |
| 29 | The one American corps ( down from the two that were there before the Gulf war ) and a couple of German ones will probably remain national formations . |
| 30 | Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping . |