Example sentences of "[ex0] were [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hut was designed for 40 but there were 80 in that night — wall-to-wall mattresses ! |
| 2 | There were five of these sites and in the tot in total nine hundred and twenty eight operations were performed over the five sites . |
| 3 | It is thought that there might , it might have remained in the hands of some diplomats who were transferring it , and there were two of these issues , there is one in a private collection at present , so this is a second one , and number eight which is coming out for sale , but the number seven did change hands er a couple of years ago , so at about fifty five thousand pounds I believe . |
| 4 | Then , in a twist of genius , Murdoch welded a merger with its arch-rival BSB and , suddenly , where there were two at each other 's throats , there was now only one . |
| 5 | There were first of all Tudor chroniclers of various kinds , many of them writing straight political propaganda . |
| 6 | At the Paris pret-a-porter shows last month , there were 70 of these women among the 300 photographers who registered with the Chambre Syndicale for a Photographe pass . |
| 7 | Whilst there were many at this level of farming there were also those who were struggling to get going . |
| 8 | For there were many in that land who had taken their magical researches too far and into whose souls darkness entered . |
| 9 | Under the patriarchy of Winston Churchill , homosexuals and teenagers were not marginal but invisible , except when they surfaced as victims of the latest moral panic , of which there were many in those days . |
| 10 | Erm of which were there were many in those days er , not so many today of course but er er ooh I should say there were probably on Vale which was our nearest sort of shopping area to where we lived , there were probably two or three erm shoe repairers , including , and you could go and buy leather there . |
| 11 | Perhaps there were more of these poles in Santa Maria in Portico than in other vicoli because there were two laundries in the street . |
| 12 | For the second series , at day 3 , 45 mice were randomly allocated with even weighting so that there were 15 in each group . |
| 13 | There were those at that time who cultivated melancholy to give themselves the appearance of profundity . |
| 14 | In 1949 many West European states joined America in making the NATO alliance and there were some at that time who believed in forging an ‘ Atlantic community ’ . |
| 15 | This bar on the right hand side represents those sites where less than one hundred cases were performed during the eight month audit period , there were seven of these sites and they performed a total of four hundred and sixty eight operations . |
| 16 | However , the collection of this variety must have been considerable : Collinson noted on the back of a print of the Magnolia grandiflora flower in his copy of Catesby 's Natural History of Carolina , that there were twenty-nine of these trees at Goodwood in 1759 , two of them twenty feet high . |
| 17 | Equally naturally , in Scotland as elsewhere , there were few in this age of profound uncertainty who maintained an unchanging stance throughout . |
| 18 | There were three in each bed . |