Example sentences of "were [det] [Wh pn] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some who hoped and half expected that he would never get there , and indeed , fought viciously to prevent it . |
| 2 | When the Spaniards produced an eagle on the 10th to go three holes ahead there were some who felt that the Americans , chance had gone . |
| 3 | Although , as an exercise against Republican democracy , the military rising of 18 July 1936 had had the backing of all who had sympathized with the Nationalist cause , there were many who felt that the result of the war — a military dictatorship — was not what they had intended . |
| 4 | There were many who talked and sang incessantly , whilst others , particularly the women , who knew they were not there for too long , refused to clean themselves and lay about like sows in their own filth . |
| 5 | After his death miracles were attributed to him and he was made a saint ; there were many who maintained that he was too ugly to be anything else . |
| 6 | By the 1870s there were many who disbelieved and who yet ‘ retained the nobler attributes of humanity ’ ; but if the bulk of humanity lost its faith then it would be hardly possible to imagine ‘ civilised and well-ordered communities ’ surviving . |
| 7 | When he arrived at Manly beach with a board he had carved out of sugar pine , many were those who said that riding a wave on a board was pure myth , a legend of the South Seas brought back by drunken sailors . |
| 8 | There were those who said that , rather than Miss Mack 's solicitor , he was the Fiancé Who Never Quite Made It Because Of Some Unexplained Difficulty — but this was pure speculation . |
| 9 | Again , when Jews were refused ordination in the national protestant church in Germany during the Third Reich , the church split , for there were those who said that on principle ( whatever might be the case in the state ) this could not be in the church . |
| 10 | But there were those who said that Douglas had known of it and connived at it . |
| 11 | There were those who argued that such action would alienate world opinion and sabotage the chances of a diplomatic solution . |
| 12 | Finally there were those who argued that it was essential to keep British control over at least part of the British car industry and that , after all the taxpayers money invested in Austin Rover , the company should not be turned over to Ford , a US multinational . |
| 13 | Against those who advocated the end of any separate provision for the mentally ill were those who argued that some patients could best be helped by care within specialized institutions provided these were not huge , obsolete in design and rigidly organized . |
| 14 | There were those who felt that Chadwick was too friendly with Kriminalrat Boemmelburg and his cohorts but , as Nicholas Winton points out , there were no advantages in antagonising the Germans . |
| 15 | Reservations continued to be expressed about the power of teacher unions in the Council and there were those who felt that ‘ the curriculum was too important to be left to teachers ’ . |
| 16 | There were those who believed that the new Chancellor lacked the drive and ability to head the government , which would be a far greater challenge than his experience governing West Berlin . |
| 17 | There were those who thought that Burton was a shit . |
| 18 | But the Cold War was fundamentally one of history 's wars of religion , and there were those who realized that the struggle to preserve American Ideals from the ideas of Marx and Lenin had to be conducted on a religious or moral plane . |
| 19 | Some of the Scotsmen talked of getting Ramsey as Bishop of Edinburgh but not enough of the Scotsmen wanted an Englishman and no doubt there were those who wondered whether this professor who lived among clouds of glory would make a bishop who perforce lived in a too real world . |
| 20 | There were those who doubted that he would win even one major title . |
| 21 | There were several who thought that Rich was too much of a burden to expect Elfed to bear . |