Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] there were [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It might be noted in passing that there were scarcely any examples known to the social workers from any team of elderly people being referred from households where other family members were also clients . ) |
| 2 | Back down the beach , the Big Wheel was turning and there were even queues waiting to get on . |
| 3 | In June the same year the Lytham line re-opened with forty electric cars , which was an act of faith , considering that there were only ninety-two houses between South Shore and Ansdell ! |
| 4 | A spokesman from BICC was dismissive of the large choice of search firms available , considering that there were far too many ; once he had learned by experience and found good firms , he would stick to those he knew best , regardless of their size or type . |
| 5 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 6 | This has caused a certain amount of wrangling , with those stalwarts who had been at Down Royal through thick and thin — mostly thin — complaining because there were now too many layers to be accommodated . |
| 7 | Somebody mind you was on about Torbay this morning on the radio I think it was saying that there were so many complaints and nurses are under such great stress . |
| 8 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 9 | According to a State Education Commission investigation , various work units across the country had refused 5,500 graduates in 1987 , indicating that there were too many coming from the universities . |
| 10 | In fact , they ended up learning that there were much more effective ways of organising . ’ |
| 11 | After her death , he carried out research showing that there were only two fatal cases in the world , both in the US , directly related to the drug . |
| 12 | A visual mean of basal UOS pressure was determined from each edited minute of tracing if there were more than 14 seconds remaining after editing . |
| 13 | I thought you might stand a better chance of winning if there were n't enough votes . |
| 14 | The argument that Linguistics-based courses are impracticable , cited a number of difficulties that are real enough , arguing that there is not time in a course already fragmented , and asserting that there were not enough people equipped to design and teach such courses as we envisaged and advocated . |