Example sentences of "there [was/were] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were to be extraordinary inconsistencies in the description of that fateful call by the main participants . |
| 2 | And the Royal Institution of Great Britain in Albemarle Street was that day announcing that there were to be eight lectures given by Mr. Faraday on Static or Franklinic Electricity , to commence on 21 April . |
| 3 | immediately if there were to be such a disaster as a Labour Government . |
| 4 | Sharpe was released a few days later , but there were to be many more visits to the hospital as worries grew about his condition . |
| 5 | There were to be many success stories in the world of Light Entertainment , Current Affairs , Documentary , Drama , schools and children 's programming and regional programmes , including of course Central News . |
| 6 | There were to be four principal elements to that strategy : ( 1 ) a substantial reduction in taxes ; ( 2 ) heavy cuts in the rate of growth of public spending ; ( 3 ) deregulation reform ; and ( 4 ) the establishment of a sound monetary policy . |
| 7 | My Lord erm there are er in my submission er a likely there were to be five key issues for determination in a court of this trial . |
| 8 | To start with , there were to be 80 attainment targets per child , and the tests were to take 30 hours . |
| 9 | There were to be listening posts with recorded messages , sturdy steps set into inclines , handrails at strategic points and gates adapted for guide dogs . |
| 10 | There were to be two aisles , one at each side of a central block of pews and then pews at each side . |
| 11 | Originally there were to be two of these , one for the preparation of a general statute and one to deal with local variations , but the arrangement proved unworkable and by the end of April 1859 there were four , each with responsibility for both the general and the particular aspects of its field . |
| 12 | The general public was to be able to use the royal posts on certain of the roads out of London ; there were to be fixed rates of postage ( to defray the cost of salaried postmasters ) ; and horse posts ( which were to travel at the rate of 120 miles in twenty-four hours ) were substituted for foot posts ( which travelled at the rate of 16 or 18 miles a day ) . |
| 13 | The autonomy of the Kurdish zone was to be strengthened , in an area expanded to include Kirkuk ; there were to be new and free elections to Kurdish councils ; the Kurds , having asked for a fair share of oil revenue , would be allotted 25–30% of the total Iraqi budget . |
| 14 | French was a guest in the VIP box at Ellis Park for the South Africa v All Black Test and he know there were to be immediate problems for the Wallaby tour the moment the first chord of Die Stem was struck . |
| 15 | There were to be brief respites from the prolonged drought , one of which Gould was to be most fortunate to encounter , but the settlers were still facing a period of unparalleled hardship . |
| 16 | The linen on the beds was to be changed once in fourteen days , and there were to be three blankets and one quilt to each bed . |
| 17 | There were to be three more co-opted Governors , to be appointed for a term of five years , but none was to be appointed until the original " life " Governors gave up their seats . |
| 18 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 19 | There were to be twenty-five surface ships , each armed with eight Polaris missiles . |
| 20 | There were to be diversionary rebellions in Scotland and the north of England , supported perhaps by spontaneous risings in other areas like the already restive Midlands , but the main effort was to be in the south-west , centred on Bath . |
| 21 | He said there were to be several explicit love scenes . " |
| 22 | Going along the road , er on the A Nineteen , from the north towards er the village er if one assumed that there were to be some development on site D forty , would you be able to see it from the road ? |
| 23 | There were to be some more good periods , like the first part of 1810 , or 1813 – 14 when wages again averaged 16s ( 80p ) a week . |
| 24 | Were we not concerned with a historical religion we could settle such matters as to who might be the ministers in the religion ( if indeed there were to be any ) on a priori ethical grounds . |
| 25 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 26 | There was to be great a embankment across the Welland Valley to carry the canal southwards well to the east of Barnes 's line but eventually joining the Grand Junction again very near to Long Buckby . |
| 27 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 28 | There was to be one last visit from Father O' Neill . |
| 29 | He brought the doctor back to earth in Doctor Dolittle 's Return ( 1933 ) , and there was to be one last book , Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake , built round the story of the Flood with Dr Dolittle as a latter-day Noah . |
| 30 | Er , page thirty-six , paragraph two The new Environment Officer The first , the question first , and as I understand it , please correct me , erm , the agreement policy was , there was to be one Environment Officer , Personal Assistant . |