Example sentences of "[conj] there was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there was to be a meeting between the two presidents and Douglas Hurd . |
| 2 | On Sept. 11 parliament approved a foreign investment law , which provided various incentives to foreign investors including a two-year tax exemption for companies with at least 30 per cent foreign capital and a three-year exemption where there was at least 50 per cent foreign capital . |
| 3 | Seeing there was to be no more entertainment , the crowd began to disperse . |
| 4 | Later that afternoon , when she had finished her shopping and passed the shop a second time , she found the E had been changed to an A. Just as , when she informed her class of noisy fourteen-year-olds that there was to be ‘ no more of that ’ , there was no more . |
| 5 | Sandison felt relieved that there was to be no pursuit of his reasons for coming to Naples . |
| 6 | He gave no reason , just reiterated that there was to be no 200 metres . |
| 7 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 8 | Having been brought up as patriots , they were benumbed at the thought that there was to be a conflict between their country and all the beliefs that they held dear . |
| 9 | On this occasion , sustained state intervention in agriculture ensured that there was to be no repetition of the inter-war years . |
| 10 | Which left him wondering why Alexei had agreed to the proposal at all — for if he knew or even suspected that there was to be no marriage , it was difficult to see where he perceived his advantage to lie . |
| 11 | The design brief stipulated that there was to be no disruption to the flow of traffic while the construction work was in progress . |
| 12 | It was stipulated that there was to be 23 hundred pounds to the " Tunn " and five score and twelve pounds to the hundred … " the bank to be made clear of ore Twice every year at least a week before ye 29th Sept and ye 1st day of May … " |
| 13 | Who could this be ? she wondered rather crossly , not having realised that there was to be another woman there . |
| 14 | Ianthe was sure it must mean that her uncle had been unable to come-for some comparatively harmless reason- and that there was to be no service that evening . |
| 15 | And all I ken was that we got word that there was to be a school trip and that we were leaving I forget what tie in the morning , and going down to see the German ships . |
| 16 | It was Labour Ministers who told local authorities that there was to be ’ severe restraint in expenditure in the national interest . ’ |
| 17 | Peter Brooke , the UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , announced in the House of Commons on July 5 that there was to be a delay in the progress of current devolution talks which he had undertaken since January 1990 with a view to producing new arrangements for exercising political power in the province [ see pp. 37198 ; 37262 ; 37583 ] . |
| 18 | When it also rapidly became clear , following the 1972 White Paper , Education : A Framework for Expansion , that there was to be in fact a massive reduction in teacher education and an opportunity to diversify to fill the gaps created , the CNAA began to be faced with proposals for degrees in other subjects , often combined or modularized degrees , and often with an attempt to build both a BA and BEd degree on top of a two-year Diploma . |
| 19 | The salary would base as my basic salary plus commission plus bonuses on a monthly basis and most importantly the promise that because the basic wage was so low , the lowest in the golf industry by your own words , er that there was to be a rise of approximately four thousand in January nineteen ninety four . |
| 20 | ‘ When , in answer to his assumption that there was to be an early wedding , I asked what was going round the grapevine now , he told me it was pure speculation on his part , stemming from the fact that you 'd just handed in your resignation . ’ |
| 21 | He claimed that there had been a bona-fide revival of Gothic architecture during the reign of Queen Victoria , that there was with those who loved architecture and made it the subject of special study , |
| 22 | the old Anti-Slavery Society committee [ was not prompted ] to make a vigorous opposition to the grant of Twenty Millions and one parliamentary leader T. F. Buxton felt so much doubt upon the propriety of turning the attention of the country prominently to it that there was on this subject a want of cordial cooperation with those who wished to make use of it to its full extent . |
| 23 | Thus in the flysch of the Polish Carpathians ( plate 4.1 ) , it has been estimated that there was on the average one turbidity current flow every 29 000 years . |
| 24 | Yes , I saw that there was on , on this the S S A. |
| 25 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 26 | Almost a month went by before she allowed herself an evening to realise that there was at the very least and latest , an unfinished conversation between them . |
| 27 | Another factor , however , was related to the city itself ; the entrenched and static nature of politics in the city did not encourage activities which assumed that there was at least a little capacity for the political system to respond to popular campaigning . |
| 28 | The implication is that there was at least one other harpsichord in Handel 's house , and Christopher Smith was to have the large one . |
| 29 | Only that there was at least a minor cultural triumph on the terraces where Francois Aliane , celebrated French restaurateur from Edinburgh , rugby enthusiast and Scotophile , was waxing the way fans do and giving his views to a French spectator . |
| 30 | And erm so they were quite major users of the railway services and indeed , I think that there was at least one clerk , from the railway , employed in 's offices , all day , every day at some time . |