Example sentences of "there [was/were] [adv] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , well , there were probably lots of things we do n't know about . |
| 2 | There were nevertheless plenty of suggestions for targets : St Nazaire was considered but dismissed because shoal waters were thought to make a sea approach impractical ; Dieppe appeared too heavily defended ; and many suggested moves to occupy distant islands were ruled out by the impossibility of maintaining garrisons . |
| 3 | This curious mingling of piety , enthusiasm and sadistic cruelty is recorded time and again in the vernacular literature of the age — sometimes naively , sometimes satirically , for there were evidently plenty of reflective men who saw the paradox , and pondered on it . |
| 4 | There were just lots of things wrong . |
| 5 | There were admittedly plenty of countries even in Europe — and practically all outside that continent — where the left , revolutionary or otherwise , as yet failed to make any impact on the peasantry ; as the Russian populists ( see chapter 9 above ) discovered when they decided to ‘ go to the people ’ in the 1870s . |
| 6 | There were indeed lots of MacLeans — nearly the whole Clan MacLean , as far as she could judge . |
| 7 | There was always unrest along the Border line ; during the Scottish Wars of Independence , the English Civil War , religious wars , in fact most of the time ; and of course , if Border lairds were not involved in a national dispute , then there were always plenty of old scores to be settled to keep them gainfully employed . |
| 8 | There were always plenty of boys ; they might arrive on a Friday and be gone by Monday , but he wanted an enduring relationship too . |
| 9 | ‘ There were always plenty of boyfriends — Lord this , someone that . |
| 10 | She would go that afternoon to fetch water from the fountain , she liked doing that anyway , and nothing could come of it to hurt her , there were always plenty of others there , and she 'd give Tommaso a sign , so that he 'd come , come at night to find her , that was the way it was done , she 'd seen it , becks and smiles under half-dosed eyes as the water brimmed in the young women 's jars . |
| 11 | In times gone by , there were always lots of hedge trimmings available at the beginning of November , and it was easy to make a bonfire — with a big family you want a big bonfire . |
| 12 | But there were still plenty of forces in the Party that remained ambiguous or hostile . |
| 13 | Though the moguls had gone , there were still plenty of people left from the old school to lay down some pretty awful accusations . |
| 14 | There were still plenty of ugly and unpleasant prisons attached to Courts of Requests outside London , like that at Kidderminster , a dungeon with an exercise yard of only twelve square feet . |
| 15 | True , there were still plenty of pockets of sadism where the whip and the birch were freely used . |
| 16 | Surprisingly there was still no organised training for new entries to the cutters but at that time of course there were still plenty of ex-service personnel available . |
| 17 | The party was slightly quieter , but there were still plenty of people about . |
| 18 | There were still plenty of them , too . |
| 19 | The commemorative battle was sufficiently well choreographed to avoid serious damage … although there were still plenty of cuts and bruises . |
| 20 | There was thus plenty of time for the photon source and the two separated measuring instruments to affect each other , perhaps through some kind of ‘ background fluctuations ’ . |
| 21 | There was practically none of the systematic planning and oversight which so characterised Bath and many other spas : that could only come from the implementation of a single plan by a great landowner and architect , and Brighton had a few of these . |
| 22 | It did not sound like a threat ; there was even something of a promise about it . |
| 23 | Not only did diplomatic services grow slowly in size : there was also none of the inflation of titles and wholesale upgrading of missions which was to develop after 1918 and still more after 1945 . |
| 24 | There was still plenty of bitterness and anger , but other emotions were surfacing through the hurts . |
| 25 | At 11 p.m. , he made sure there was still plenty of tape left on the machine and departed , returning at 8 a.m. the following morning to take it across the street to Syrian George . |
| 26 | Most of my summers were spent with Venturous in Scotland where there was still plenty of work for us . |
| 27 | The sun was now down but there was still plenty of light . |
| 28 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 29 | There was always plenty of activity here , and so much so , that it was not until some time had elapsed , that a rumbling from above brought the GC to his attention . |
| 30 | Mrs Joel said that the first year she did it she used almost all privet , as she was frightened of running out of material half way through and she knew there was always plenty of that around . |