Example sentences of "there were [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were at that time no fewer than 522 Boeing 707/300 aircraft in operation , every one of which was directly affected by the accident . |
| 2 | According to the most recent Green Paper ( DES 1985b ) there were at that time 184 institutions engaged wholly or mainly in the provision of higher education courses , and another 372 in which some provision was at this level — a total of 556 ( 10 fewer than given in Annex A of that document ) . |
| 3 | We were , however , readier , I think , than at the beginning , to take seriously and to counter , the equally serious convictions of those who held that there was no place for courses similar to ours , of which there were at that time a number in various stages of development . |
| 4 | Principally there were at that time other interested parties in the premises er and also erm Mr saw it as essential er that er they were in and running the business er well before the time of the Christmas trade which was rapidly approaching then , then it being late August and er he wanted to make sure that they were in in in time for them to be able to take advantage of those bookings that they anticipated . |
| 5 | There were at this time few , if any , pretentious stations . |
| 6 | There were at this time close links between the College and the Academy , but this alone does not explain why this Bohemian hoped to be honoured by an institution that many leading artists , among them Henry Moore , Bacon and Freud , regarded with scorn . |
| 7 | There were at this point no apparent difficulties experienced between the majority of estate members and no significant source of conflict , that is until the question of a multi-denominational school itself became such a source . |
| 8 | There were on each circuit panels of barristers prepared to advise and act on behalf of any barrister threatened with a wasted costs order . |
| 9 | It seemed to her that she had never seen so many people as there were on that platform , waiting for the Rome express to arrive . |
| 10 | Between July and November 1916 on this front there were on both sides three million men in arms , of which the dead , wounded and shell-shocked would amount to one million two hundred thousand . |
| 11 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 12 | Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ? |
| 13 | And , if there were times those qualities seemed exaggerated , she understood . |
| 14 | Professor Dudek had envisaged the series coming out in paper covers ( the format that was just becoming the way to the mass market ) ; Leonard ensured that it went into hard ; Dudek had not meant the books to be prestigious in format but vehicles of introduction ; Leonard saw to it that his book could stand alongside the best that there were from both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 15 | More significantly , in many districts there were in most villages several households which depended on cattle stealing for their livelihood . |
| 16 | By the time of the French Revolution there were in any case only three monks left in Saint-Savin and even though the church was spared the vindictive demolition which removed the adjacent monastery buildings , by 1840 it was more than ready to be rescued by the growing movement for the Conservation of ancient monuments . |
| 17 | Where there are conflicting practices ( as there were in this case ) , negligence is not established by proving that the defendant has not followed one practice . |