Example sentences of "[vb past] there [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the polls give him the lowest performance rating of any post-war leader , Mr Major doubted there would be a challenge this year . |
| 2 | They were later released after their commanders promised there would be no further incidents , said duty officer Paulino Cardoso . |
| 3 | He promised there would be no compulsory redundancies . |
| 4 | And you promised there would be holidays . ’ |
| 5 | Someone , I thought dimly , was waiting to see if I moved : and if I moved there would be a third thud and my heart would stop . |
| 6 | The train would be too long for the platform ; as it approached there would be frantic snatchings and shrieks … |
| 7 | From time immemorial it was a commonly held belief in Gaelic Scotland that where a disease occurred there would be found growing in the locality of its prevalence a plant which would cure that disease . |
| 8 | If liability rules are to perform any of the functions mentioned there must be at least some prospect of their being enforced . |
| 9 | EP : One possible school would be weekly boarding — if you visited there would be no guarantee . |
| 10 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 11 | Wherever installed there should be a large notice to tell people , regular routine checking to ensure it is in working order , and someone to ensure it is switched on and properly used . |
| 12 | Mr Michael Howard , the Housing Minister , said that the rent guidelines , published yesterday , assumed there would be a national increase of 10 per cent in gross rent income . |
| 13 | I assumed there would be a massive outcry , they 'd ban the record and I 'd be arrested and taken to the Tower or something … ’ |
| 14 | I assumed there would be a reason assume there was going to be a good reason . |
| 15 | From what my governess told me and the way our elders talk and exchange glances when speaking of completion or bedding , I imagined there must be a sort of initiation ceremony , something absolutely frightful ! ’ |
| 16 | In a series of interviews yesterday , Mr Kinnock pledged there would be no further increases in the proposed 25p , 40p and 50p income tax rates , and nine per cent National Insurance contributions proposed in Labour 's first Budget . |
| 17 | Mr Miller confirmed there would be full inquiry into the mistake . |
| 18 | Using computer simulations , Copeland showed there will be a positive correlation between price volatility , as measured by the absolute value of price changes , /Δ P / , and volume . |
| 19 | But after a secret meeting the UDA 's seven-man inner council vowed there would be no surrender . |
| 20 | He claimed there should be no erosion of traditional fishing areas , and stressed that each application would have to go through a long process before being granted . |
| 21 | He predicted there would be no shortage of volunteers , who could acquire the necessary skills on short courses . |
| 22 | He predicted there would be ‘ masses of abstentions ’ meaning certain defeat for the Government . |
| 23 | Mr Justice Kennedy ordered there should be a not guilty verdict to the attempted murder charge which Tapping , of Uvedale Road , South Bank , Middlesbrough , had denied . |
| 24 | So really you can actually avoid not coming into contact with it , but , two years ago , just really everywhere you walked there 'd be someone dealing or whatever , so you could n't really avoid it . |
| 25 | When she returned there would be aggro over major matters . |
| 26 | I prayed there would be no sudden turns . |
| 27 | A place familiar from many enjoyable holidays spent there may be the choice or even a move abroad . |
| 28 | General Hassan al-Nakib , formerly deputy chief of staff in the Iraqi army , argued there would be no need for any war if Mr Hussein were removed from power . |
| 29 | Plato argued there must be an intrinsic connection between words and what they mean — . |
| 30 | Not that she expected there would be . |