Example sentences of "there [adv] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But there is every reason to suppose that there already existed that division which makes the Church of the later Middle Ages so strangely resemble a military hierarchy , with the upper clergy as commissioned officers , the rural deans and archpriests as N.C.O.s , and the parish clergy as privates .
2 The agreement formally ended 13 years of civil war , although small-scale fighting reportedly continued , and analysts were generally cautious in their appraisal of the agreement , noting that there still remained many barriers to genuine peace in Cambodia .
3 If cc was a causal circumstance for e , then ( 5 ) If cc occurred , then even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with cc and e , it was never the less the case that e occurred — or , cc began and e ended a sequence of things such that it was true of each one and its immediate successor that if the first occurred , even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with both , then the second also occurred .
4 If cc was a causal circumstance for e , then ( 5 ) If cc occurred , then even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with cc and e , it was never the less the case that e occurred — or , cc began and e ended a sequence of things such that it was true of each one and its immediate successor that if the first occurred , even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with both , then the second also occurred .
5 If e happened , at least one of cc or cc " or cc " or … existed , even if there also occurred any change x consistent with both .
6 Consider also if cc occurred then , even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with cc and e , it was also the case that e occurred-which is the first part of the independent conditional in ( 5 ) .
7 Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor .
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