Example sentences of "there was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the Nationalist Party , a weak organization for which local priests had to provide some kind of legitimation . |
| 2 | On the other hand , there was the nationalist theory of democracy , which derives power from the people and not from an élite group of religious intellectuals . |
| 3 | There was the revulsion at the fluidity of life and the first tube of paint , the revulsion at the meticulousness of painting with a brush and the first pot of paint , the revulsion at the viscousness of paint and the first readymade , the revulsion at the arbitrariness of the readymades and the first use of glass . |
| 4 | And then , just after I 'd fallen asleep , as I thought , there was the damned organ moaning away and it was 6 a.m. again . |
| 5 | Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old . |
| 6 | First , there was the peer pressure from my colleagues . |
| 7 | Finally there was the grey . |
| 8 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 9 | But the sun tugged her out of bed the next day and there was the butterfly , still fluttering . |
| 10 | I fell in the brown water and fouled my frock , and the men never heeded , of course , but there was the devil to pay when we got home at night . ’ |
| 11 | The petitions and lists — there was the weakness ! |
| 12 | Still , there was the problem of her married Englishman . |
| 13 | He was to see the beginnings of the great urban slums of New York and Chicago , and he must have had some sense of this if they were going to speak to American working people , but still , there was the mythology , the possibility of millions of dollars waiting to be made . |
| 14 | Then there was the paradox that the erstwhile Premier Line out of Euston steadily slipped down the speed and performance league as the High Speed Trains out of King 's Cross , St Pancras and Paddington proved ( for all the undoubted technical troubles ) that they could sustain their role as InterCity 's workaday tool . |
| 15 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 16 | A little earlier there was the remarkable work of Edgell Rickword as poet and critic , and , as editor of The Calendar of Modern Letters , a setter of the agenda for modern criticism . |
| 17 | There was the intellectual stimulus to be gained from discussion with colleagues , and the challenge of teaching lively young minds . |
| 18 | For the players , there was the prospect of returning to their day jobs with £50 in their pockets , for the landlord there was a healthy night 's takings and for the crowd , even those who had stayed in the bar all evening , there was a nasty ringing in the ears the next morning . |
| 19 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 20 | However , there was the tacit admission of drug abuse in the tightened medication programme and a passing reference to the practice of ‘ hyper-sensitisation . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There was the possibility that it was an effort to draw the US into some kind of an embarrassing incident , ’ Mr Cheney said . |
| 22 | First there was the broad statement of intent in the policy review document and then there was the controversial TUC composite resolution — an incompetently constructed mosaic of competing interests . |
| 23 | First there was the broad statement of intent in the policy review document and then there was the controversial TUC composite resolution — an incompetently constructed mosaic of competing interests . |
| 24 | Last Friday came a statement of ‘ clarification ’ issued by the party and the unions and finally there was the debate and another statement by Michael Meacher , Labour 's employment spokesman . |
| 25 | Towards the close there was the feeling that she was forcing a little at the top , and that the middle voice was tiring . |
| 26 | Then there was the bad snap from center on an extra-point attempt . |
| 27 | There was the original Peter Hall / Simon Rattle collaboration for the festival , remarkable for the introduction of authentic instruments to Glyndebourne . |
| 28 | Then there was the three-sided live LP , Big World ( 1986 ) , during the recording of which the audience was asked to observe silence . |
| 29 | There was the usual sniping , but no one seemed to be bothering too much . |
| 30 | Suddenly there was the unmistakable swish of a mortar bomb , then the explosion a few yards away . |