Example sentences of "there were [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were soon Catfish , Abalone and Conch Shell Alliances pursuing the marine life tag . |
| 2 | Palestinian nationalists became suspicious , since there were soon rumours that he was seeking recognition as Amir of Palestine in return for support of Zionist policy . |
| 3 | But here , too , there were soon difficulties and in 1943 he resigned to become scientific adviser to the United States 8th Army Air Force in Great Britain . |
| 4 | Investiture was the symbolic part of a struggle behind which there were fundamentally different views about the whole ordering of society and about who was the divinely appointed agent for that purpose . |
| 5 | There were eventually two plans . |
| 6 | There were eventually so many people there that new arrivals simply gave Patrick a glance and a nod , assuming that he fitted somewhere into the team . |
| 7 | Of course there were again too many people chasing too few jobs , but they took it so well , from the older ones amongst the women , who shared out the few cleaning jobs that were going in the City of London , to the elderly Scottish temporary Clerk-in-Charge of the boy 's department . |
| 8 | ‘ When the meteorite landed there were big problems in Kershaw , just like there were again a few years ago . |
| 9 | However , there were again interesting differences between sectors . |
| 10 | As she left the stage there were again cries of ‘ More ! |
| 11 | WORRYINGLY , there were again FEWER maths candidate — 2.6 per cent less . |
| 12 | There were however no stamps on the envelopes and no postmarks . |
| 13 | There were however differences in the types of crime persons with certain social backgrounds were likely to commit . |
| 14 | There were however some differences between British and Sri Lankan definitions of crime . |
| 15 | The medical reports showed that the appellant was not subject to a definable mental illness , but was disturbed ; there were however signs that he was maturing and that with appropriate treatment he should overcome his difficulties and achieve an increase in maturity and a more balanced outlook on life . |
| 16 | There were however , disadvantages . |
| 17 | There were however a number of ways in which , having correctly begun the inquiry , the tribunal could do something which rendered its decision a nullity . |
| 18 | There were however some dicta supporting a wider review power . |
| 19 | While Frank Reed 's relations waited expectantly in both Damascus and the United States , there were however , ominous signs of the power struggle continuing in Tehran over the hostage issue . |
| 20 | In the modern parish of Mudford in Somerset there were formerly eight separate settlements . |
| 21 | There are not two |
| 22 | Sir Nicholas Goodison , the group chairman , tried to soften the blow of continuing bad debt provisions by telling shareholders that there were finally some signs of economic recovery after three years thanks to the fall in interest rates and the value of sterling . |
| 23 | Although nothing became of this beyond an agreement that there were widely different views on the matter , that same year the Government of Australia proposed that the so called cull grenade should be banned . |
| 24 | There were widely held concerns over the funding of the mission , the dispatch of which had been delayed since November 1991 when the leaders of three of the four factions returned to Phnom Penh , the capital . |
| 25 | It could be a useful raw material if there were locally a need for mild alkali in this form . |
| 26 | This might appear on the surface the most neutral formulation — there were unarguably three distinct times of battles in 1642–6 , 1648 , and 1650–1 — but it also elides the establishment of parliamentary authority and later Cromwell 's Protectorate . |
| 27 | So , all things considered , there were surprisingly few casualties . |
| 28 | Perhaps because it was conveniently placed on the edge of the Old City closest to the modern , developed parts where the more well-to-do lived , there were surprisingly wealthy people in its congregation . |
| 29 | But there were surprisingly few non-Communists capable of writing popular works within the broad limits of the Club 's aims . |
| 30 | At the conclusion of a war there were invariably far too many officers for the reduced number of ships retained in commission , and interest was a great help in securing a place in one of them . |