Example sentences of "there were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were of course some major practical problems in the way of me relaunching myself — my age , for instance . |
| 2 | There were of , course , side effects especially with the poisonous remedies such as Arsenicum , and the desire to eliminate these toxic effects led him to develop , in 1815 , the method of trituration and subsequent liquid dilution and succussion , we know as the centesimal potencies . |
| 3 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 4 | For legacies and institutions as heir there were of course set wordings : do lego or damnas esto dare for legacies per vindicationem and per damnationem respectively ; heres esto for institutions . |
| 5 | There were of course political difficulties ; delays in getting money from Congress and in persuading the three principal states involved , Maryland , Virginia , and Pennsylvania , to cooperate with each other . |
| 6 | The man who entered a monastery did so , in principle , for life ; there were of course apostates ; there were also a number who moved on to a stricter way of life ; and a few who were promoted to abbeys elsewhere , or to bishoprics , or even to the papacy . |
| 7 | Yesterday we asked you how many varieties there were of Plumrose Delifresh Slicing Rolls ? |
| 8 | There were of course successes . |
| 9 | There were of course major guidelines within which even the most idiosyncratic monarch would operate : security in the west , a steady probing towards outlets in the Baltic and the Black Sea , incremental expansion and pacification in the south-east . |
| 10 | However , her first feelings when she was sent there were of betrayal and resentment . |
| 11 | There were of course other institutions of central government , which can not be given more than a bare mention here . |
| 12 | There were of course bitter disputes among the Bolsheviks themselves over the direction of Soviet policy after the immediate threat to their power receded , with furious denunciation from those who fell foul of the regime — most notably from Trotsky . |
| 13 | There were of course three other rings : the North and South Orbital ( E ) , the North and South Circular ( C ) and the A ring , which connected the terminal railway stations . |
| 14 | There were of course anomalies , but some would have occurred whatever mechanisms for resource allocation had been adopted . |
| 15 | There were of course no telephones available to call a doctor and someone usually had to run or ride to call him out . |
| 16 | There were of course exceptions such as Mrs Cellier , mid-wife and women 's champion who against all the odds managed to carve a niche for herself as a nurse , to hold her own whilst on trial at the Old Bailey , calmly storing in her pocket stones thrown at her whilst in the stocks and attempted to found a college of therapeutic midwifery . |
| 17 | Factionalism was rife , and the British Situationists — what there were of them — did their best to recruit amongst the underground-oriented malcontents despairing of the prospects of that movement . |
| 18 | Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold . |
| 19 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
| 20 | , there were of course two deaths , Piggy and Simon , the bodies of whom were carried out to sea by the current . |
| 21 | Now two things have happened — one is that better , safer pills have been introduced , but secondly a lot of the scares which there were of five or ten years ago , have been shown to be quite unjustified , so we now know that using the more modern of the oral contraceptives erm there 's really very little risk indeed . |
| 22 | There were at this point no apparent difficulties experienced between the majority of estate members and no significant source of conflict , that is until the question of a multi-denominational school itself became such a source . |
| 23 | During March there were at least 14 pairs of frogs , plus toads ( and spawn ) . |
| 24 | According to Anthony Preece , director of operations at investment group Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers , speaking at last week 's conference , there were at least 13 different design concepts for the future Taurus system under discussion in the City as of March this year . |
| 25 | By the end of the year there were at least five methods of conducting business , starting at the centre and moving towards the periphery . |
| 26 | There were at Grunwick a group of exceptional women , women of great dignity and strength of personality like Jayaben Desai and Kalaben Patel who although in no sense ‘ westernised ’ had rejected traditional attitudes that women should be submissive and passive . |
| 27 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |
| 28 | There were at least two miles to go . |
| 29 | There were at B.P. Chiefs and Indians . |
| 30 | During the 18th century , there were at least fourteen mills on the Painswick Stream and its tributaries , rising to thirty by the first part of the 19th century . |