Example sentences of "there was [art] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that there was a strongly differentiated hierarchy of performance across institutions . |
| 2 | Coming from a first-generation immigrant family there was a strongly defined work ethic and after my father died heavy responsibility was thrust upon us . |
| 3 | There was a well understood code of honour in these matters and guests invariably responded nobly . |
| 4 | In selecting the area to be defended , those responsible , presumably military engineers , chose the most convenient and economical line , and where there was a well planned core of gridded streets , this was not too difficult ; the real problem was the case of settlements which were long strips of ribbon development along a road . |
| 5 | There was a well developed and long-lived post-Roman pottery industry in the area ( based on St Neots , Stamford and Ipswich ) and this means that , because the area is intensively ploughed , scatters of potsherds are revealed on former settlement sites . |
| 6 | There was a clearly defined path , but she still had to pick her way with care . |
| 7 | There was a frequently reiterated belief that for Tanganyika to be understood properly in the international community it needed to have a strong English language press in which TANU policies would be stated clearly . |
| 8 | " Is he indeed , " muttered her father , and went through to the back where there was a newly planted orchard and herb garden . |
| 9 | — ‘ Any idea what the squadron 's doing now ? ’ ) but from that moment there was a clear cut division between the sheep and the goats . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , whether correct or not , there was a widely held feeling that hooliganism was a major problem . |
| 11 | By the beginning of the thirteenth century there was a widely held belief within the Church that masses said on behalf of the dead would shorten the length of time a soul spent in purgatory . |
| 12 | There was a widely held view amongst sentencers at the time that these powers were too limited ; while the furtherance of types of punishment not necessitating the deprival of liberty had been a perennial cause of penal reformers . |
| 13 | There was a widely held concern to improve the effectiveness of professionals working together , and to involve parents more fully , so as to create a system in which there is openness , effective communication and negotiated decisions about priorities for young disabled people . |
| 14 | The whole village was involved and there was a carefully laid down ritual which had long roots far back in medieval times . |
| 15 | Beyond the glass there was a sporadically placed ring of guards and dogs who seemed uncertain as to whether to stare back at the distorted press of faces at the glass panes , or whether to watch instead the spiral column of smoke and the flames that played at its heels . |
| 16 | There was a nicely judged degree of contempt in her voice , Loretta thought ; it implied that the speaker had quickly got Puddephat 's measure , and did n't intend to waste any more of her time on him . |
| 17 | There was a crudely written note attached to the child giving her name and saying that the mother was an unmarried Irish girl who had been in service and was going back to Ireland . |
| 18 | said that that there was no generally accepted international meaning of the phrase ; he recognised that in some jurisdictions , public law matters were regarded as outside the categories of civil and commercial , but that this was not universally the case ; he , but not the other members of the court , felt that there was insufficient evidence as to the approach of Norwegian law , but was prepared to give the request the benefit of the doubt . |
| 19 | They may well have been in the right : the tendency of some Merovingians to take and discard wives at will , that is to practise serial monogamy , meant that there was no clearly defined family tree . |
| 20 | How could the Soviet system — and after it , the Commonwealth — function if there was no widely understood common language ? |
| 21 | It is commonly thought that herbs were used chiefly to disguise the flavour of bad meat during the winter when there was no recently slaughtered beef or lamb to be had , or when food in general had started to go off . |
| 22 | There was an oddly arrested note in his voice . |
| 23 | There was an apparently raised incidence of lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas in the rest of Cumbria in 1984–90 among those aged 0–4 years , but this is based on only 13 cases and is difficult to interpret . |