Example sentences of "there was in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knox , when he wrote his History of the Reformation in the 1560s , looked back to the time when ‘ all men esteemed the Governor to have been the most fervent Protestant that there was in all Europe ’ , so that although ‘ The Papists raged against the Governor ’ , his fame ‘ was spread in divers countries ’ . |
| 2 | How much truth there was in all these myths you now know as well as I. Certainly the Witnesses hit early on the fact that , rippling in and out of hyperspace , even ships as basic as the Bergen Kobold change slightly every time . |
| 3 | There was some rivalry between nations in this process , as there was in all economic penetration . |
| 4 | Quite suddenly it seemed fitting that the suit of her husband should garb a man who had slaughtered his brides : there was in that , somewhere , a gleam of relevance . |
| 5 | Furthermore there was in many of these activities at least a hint of some of the better cultural values . |
| 6 | There was in many urban and rural areas extreme poverty due to unemployment , bad working conditions , poor housing , inadequate diet , and chronic ill health . |
| 7 | Given the fact that less than 30 per cent of charges brought resulted in successful conviction ( when the rate for most other crimes was about 50 per cent ) , we may wonder how much substance there was in many of the accusations , or whether at times of political anxiety certain types of people were likely to be vulnerable to false accusations because they conformed to the popular stereotype of who a Jacobite was . |
| 8 | But there was in any case no doubt that the areas of the family , education , and public morality constituted part of the sacred sphere . |
| 9 | This should not be taken to imply that there was in any sense an unrestrained licence for peasant sexuality ; there was no ‘ amorality ’ in a fundamental sense . |
| 10 | The decision in Rask is , of course , considerable help in support of the contention that the claim would otherwise have succeeded , but can not be said to be conclusive on the point , since it is for the national court to evaluate all the circumstances when assessing whether there was in any particular case a transfer of a business . |
| 11 | ‘ There was in this one ! ’ |
| 12 | [ he ] … began to understand for the first time just how much there was in this business of being a ship 's officer . |
| 13 | And yet for all her beaten and pathetic appearance it seemed to Creggan there was in this eagle Slorne 's eyes something that Creggan saw nowhere else in the Cages at that moment : purpose . |
| 14 | There was in this vast menu something to please everyone . |
| 15 | There was in some cases an extraordinary Englishness about Argentine railways . |
| 16 | Cos there 's more people now than there was in those days . |