Example sentences of "there were [noun] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One did not see uniformed members of the Partito Nazionale Fascista walking about the streets every day , but from time to time there were parades in which they could easily be identified . |
| 2 | Leith shot a glance at Naylor , seated next to her , who was n't even a tinge pink around the ears at his aunt 's revealing what , since there were others in her particular line who were far more senior , must surely be a lie . |
| 3 | There were industries in which managers had for years sub-contracted certain management tasks to labour — for example the gang-work systems in steel , dockyards and shipbuilding — and similar practices operated in such industries as motorcar and aircraft production . |
| 4 | If you want my opinion , it was a man , and I 'm sure there were goings-on in my corridor last night ! ’ |
| 5 | By late summer , the nousts and the sheds had been mended in Orkney , and there were keels in them , waiting for the harvest to finish . |
| 6 | Mr Ian Karsten , for the board , told a Bristol University appeal committee hearing that there were passages in his script which were ‘ bizarre and remarkable and which require explanation ’ . |
| 7 | well , here , I think it fitted in , I think it was this way , it 's a little bit difficult to see from the decision itself , erm this do , when these were notified there were provisions in it for example in relation to admission and expulsion , which the commission objected to and erm , I think one can summarize that this must of happen , the commission said to the marketing question if you do n't remove this restriction or if you do n't erm eradicate what we see as the arbitrary element of |
| 8 | There were areas in which the more traditional , buccaneering type of entrepreneur still played a role . |
| 9 | The House of Lords found that there were circumstances in which liability could be incurred for negligent misrepresentation by one person to another in the absence of any contractual or fiduciary relationship between them . |
| 10 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |
| 11 | He had read and enjoyed her diary though there were things in it that he was sure he had not known at fourteen and that he felt , uneasily , were not quite suitable for her to know . |
| 12 | Well there were a boat lost yes and there were women in it mind and that and bairns . |
| 13 | There were movements in her body that frightened her . |
| 14 | There were elements in its thinking , however , which were akin to the Keynesians ' views . |
| 15 | What Hollywood had been doing was living off its wits and trying to survive as best it could but it now responded to this challenge not necessarily by taking Dr Dale 's ‘ entire world ’ as its range but at least by ensuring that there were values in its films . |
| 16 | The evidence here is often contradictory , and suggests that in practice , there were variations in what was asked of women . |
| 17 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 18 | ‘ They … they said there were drugs in my bag . |
| 19 | In Mansfield , for example , there were cases in which the clerk had put the conditions on the bail form even before the defendant 's solicitor had concluded his application for unconditional bail . |
| 20 | There were cases in which bishops were appointed in opposition to the will of a ruler , as when Dynamius , the patrician of Provence , appointed Marcellus as bishop of Uzès , despite royal support for Jovinus . |
| 21 | I mean during the er , preceding the General Strike , I know that there were pubs in you know , ordinary working class pubs , and they used to close with the singing of the Red Flag . |
| 22 | ‘ There were pellets in its head and chest . |
| 23 | This is not the time to press this Bill , even if there were merits in it , considering the climate in Europe . |
| 24 | Instead there were Kinks in it where the rods joined it , and the ends of the rods were attached to collars which were secured around the kinks . |
| 25 | There was no denying the fact that there were gaps in her memory because of the drugs . |
| 26 | Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own . |
| 27 | Miss Phoebe 's pitted cheeks were quite pink and there were tears in her eyes . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I 'm avoiding Broad Street because of the cranes , ’ Meg replied , and Lee saw that there were tears in her eyes . |
| 29 | ‘ My lord , it is good to see you , ’ she told him , and this time there were tears in her eyes . |
| 30 | There were tears in her eyes . |