Example sentences of "there was [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the turn of the century there was increased agricultural production in the area , but with improved methods , less labour was required . |
| 2 | There was increased urban demand , with a fast-growing population and with a rise in real wages , competition from cheap imported foodstuffs encouraged farmers to switch to milk production , and the wholesale and retail end of the business became more efficient and organized . |
| 3 | There was increased military representation , reflecting the leadership 's concern that economic reforms might lead to civil unrest . |
| 4 | As West European industrialisation got under way , so the demand for goods manufactured in and around Danzig also began to improve : there was increased Prussian demand for armaments , chemicals , food , timber , clothing and shipbuilding to support the growth of industry in Western Prussia . |
| 5 | There was piping hot bread and honey with the welcoming tea and , at night , a huge tagine ( casserole ) dish containing a delicious stew . |
| 6 | The living was cheap and easy , the Bearnais were grateful , there was hunting all year round . |
| 7 | There was glittering blue mystery in his eyes , and his voice was lethally soft , like a snake rustling through dry grass . |
| 8 | Different electoral systems were used in different states , there was limited popular interest , and votes tended to go to national political parties . |
| 9 | The most recent sequence of excavations has established that there was limited pre-Roman occupation of the site , in the form of a round house , which may have been associated with areas of ploughed fields , found below Roman levels in Annetwell Street , even though they had apparently reverted to pasture immediately before the arrival of the Romans . |
| 10 | Second , there was growing Catholic disaffection from the moderate policies of the Catholic National Party . |
| 11 | In addition to the background of violence and sectarian division which had ruined Prior 's plan for ‘ rolling devolution ’ , there was growing economic decay . |
| 12 | There was growing public concern at the high toll of deaths and injuries among servicemen in peacetime , and this had become a significant factor in the worsening problem of draft-dodging . |
| 13 | Japanese owners operated 500 of the 1,300 Asian drift vessels in the Pacific , where there was increasing international pressure to cease driftnet fishing — a practice whereby fine nylon nets were stretched across as much as 60 km of the ocean to a depth of 15 metres , resulting in the unintended death of an estimated 1,000,000 sea birds and 200,000 mammals each year . |
| 14 | … there was increasing public concern at what was regarded as the growing shamelessness of prostitutes , in the streets of London and some other big cities . |
| 15 | A similar study of modular Stage I assessment data ( 1986 ; see Table 6.2 ) showed that there was imbalanced modular provision and enrolment over the academic year . |
| 16 | There was continuing low-level tension between the two countries , however , over the incursions made by Turkish fishing vessels into Bulgarian territorial waters in the Black Sea . |
| 17 | But to go there was to enter another world . |
| 18 | Following Iraq 's defeat in February 1991 there was intensified diplomatic activity by the EC , UN and United States on the Cyprus problem . |
| 19 | There was mounting working-class pressure against increasing such taxes which , it was argued , were contributed disproportionately by those least able to pay , whilst the rich paid a tiny proportion of their wealth and income in taxation . |
| 20 | At the same time , there was pressing new business : the setting up of a provisional state in North Africa , preparation for its transfer back to France , supervision of the French war effort , and planning for postwar reconstruction . |
| 21 | In Germany notably , where the government was a good deal less influenced by domestic opinion than in France and Britain , there was marked official sensitivity to the comments of foreign newspapers and an anxiety to present the best possible face to the outside world . |
| 22 | In the one patient in this series with this feature , there was marked active inflammation with expression of colonic phenotypic markers . |