Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [n mass] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were infantry Regiments in Djibouti , French Guyana and Mayotte , an island off the coast of Madagascar . |
| 2 | According to Baring Securities , a prominent trader of warrants in Tokyo and London , there were $120.2 billion-worth of Japanese warrant bonds outstanding as of mid-February . |
| 3 | There were fruit trees beyond the grass , and then the fields themselves , and the terraces of tomatoes , vegetables and vines . |
| 4 | There were fruit trees amongst the flowers , here a pear tree , there a currant bush , so that one could either smell a rose , crush a verbena , or eat a fruit ; there were borders of box , but also of sorrel and chibol ; and the stiff battalion of leeks , shallots , and garlic , the delicate pale-green foliage of the carrot , the aggressive steel-grey leaves of the artichokes , the rows of lettuce which always ran to seed too quickly . |
| 5 | It is true that , on occasions last year , there were staff shortages in the intensive care unit at the hospital . |
| 6 | When Margaret Thatcher 's first government came to power there were 14.3m vehicles on the road — there are now more than 19.7m . |