Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the war ended it had reached 200,000 and by the early 1920s there were a quarter of a million Boy Scouts . |
| 2 | All the feeding stuff and there were a pile of feeding stuff then for the hens were all and cattle were fed and all the feeding stuff had to be imported . |
| 3 | In fact , I would n't be surprised if there were a clause in your contract forbidding that kind of journey on a performance day . |
| 4 | If there were a relationship between that hypothetical influence and the concept of a created and worshipped ‘ god ’ of the post-life world , then that relationship must be regarded as part of the same great mystery which shrouds the origins of the universe itself . |
| 5 | Likewise , there were a range of services — including solicitors , garages , restaurants — where small scale remained the norm [ Bolton Report , 1971 ] . |
| 6 | We were surprised to realise that instead of two distinct groups there were a range of speakers and writers with an overlap and no clear demarcation between schools . |
| 7 | There were a range of meetings , some private meetings with district councils when they 've given the opportunity to discuss issues erm themselves , and quite clearly our members did in fact look at a whole range of projections before coming to a final view . |
| 8 | And there were a clutch of gongs for people who also write . |
| 9 | If there were a shred of humanity in the IRA , they would hand those killers over for justice without any delay . ’ |
| 10 | In addition , if there were a lack of confidence in the Government 's strategy for getting the deficit under control , it could require a rise in interest rates with very damaging effects on business confidence . |
| 11 | In addition , if there were a lack of confidence in the Government 's strategy for getting the deficit under control , it could require a rise in interest rates with very damaging effects on business confidence . |
| 12 | However , I would guess that , if there were a referendum on the issue in Britain , there would be a clear majority for making homosexual acts between consenting adults illegal . |
| 13 | Under her heavy clothes , she felt filthy , as if there were a layer of vermin-ridden earth between her naked skin and the fabric . |
| 14 | If there were a obligation on the police to operate a policy of protecting those first into the forum , freedom of speech would be the better preserved . |
| 15 | He felt as though there were a space for him in the universe , and he exactly filled it . |
| 16 | The constables were keen to display to the field-worker that they knew the appropriate law to apply and that the law gave formal justification to their decisions , but there were a variety of other factors which facilitated this sensitive interpretation of the law . |
| 17 | In the nineteenth century there were a variety of sources available about criminal cases . |
| 18 | He held that there were a variety of different rightness-making properties . |
| 19 | There were a variety of difficulties in administering the former Community Charge , one of the main ones was in maintaining an accurate Community Charge Register of all individuals resident within the Region at any particular time . |
| 20 | As we have seen , there were a variety of different types of Jacobitism , whilst the serious source problems involved in studying this subject will always limit our understanding and inevitably mean that there will continue to be much room for interpretative disagreements . |
| 21 | But one of the conditions set by the Japanese government was that its people should take part only if there were a ceasefire between the warring parties . |
| 22 | In the past some psychologists have written as if there were a kind of biological , genetically determined ‘ bang ’ at the beginning of human life and that cultural learning took over immediately afterwards . |
| 23 | There were a there were a bit of fund for it I think . |
| 24 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
| 25 | There were a couple of things that I 've never seen anywhere since , relics of Victorian engineering . |
| 26 | There were a couple of people already in there , sitting at a table near the counter . |
| 27 | There were a couple of queues out into the street for toiletries . |
| 28 | There were a couple of diggers far out . |
| 29 | Specialists in the property sector said there were a couple of aggressive attempts to sell large lines of both MEPC and also Hammerson ‘ A ’ ( down 25 at 330p ) first thing yesterday . |
| 30 | When I ran back to the girl , there were a couple of railwaymen on their way to work and another policeman carrying her to the Out-patients . |