Example sentences of "[coord] [ex0] [was/were] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Botham was eighth out the score was 114 and there were more than five overs left . |
| 2 | And there were more when , laden with flowers , she went round the Guinness Trust Estate . |
| 3 | I went round all the hospitals in Edinburgh and Leith all the doctors surgeries and there was nowhere and I ended up at the the women 's unit in Edinburgh City Chambers and I got help from the women 's unit and er from there we started a pressure group to get more literature to people , you know to get them into doctor 's surgeries so as they would know what to do , what to expect . |
| 4 | The uncle 's car was an old Ford V8 with enormous fins and there was more than enough room for all of them in the back . |
| 5 | And there was more than a smack of sympathy for terrorism in a call by a leading Fundi for a ‘ broad show of unity ’ with a group which shot dead two policemen during a demonstration at Frankfurt airport . |
| 6 | And there was more than a hint , throughout the speech , that education was primarily instrumental , not a good in itself . |
| 7 | He was n't greedy and there was more than enough for everyone to have their share . |
| 8 | But there was more than a little doubt in Harriet 's mind as to whether his wife was remotely in love with him . |
| 9 | But there was more than that — it was almost as if she were looking for something . |
| 10 | But there was more than beauty in her face today . |
| 11 | Well it was one big bedroom but there was more or less like a loft . |
| 12 | When I was a child I could remember gatherings of two or three hundred people , but there were less than a hundred out on the dry grass . |
| 13 | They kept going just as fast — faster — but there were more and more of them . |