Example sentences of "there were [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way home , filled with an indigestible mixture of relief and regret , Peter observed that there were removal vans once again outside Loxford Old Rectory . |
| 2 | The farmers ' wives played an active role in Germany particularly if there were dairy cows or other stock . |
| 3 | Even then , there were land development issues associated with local state support for the new system of owner-occupation but , in comparison with developments after 1975 , the 1930s seem to have been a period during which previous social forms were suspended rather than transformed . |
| 4 | In 1793 there were Mrs Wood of Lime Grove , Putney ; Mrs Codrington of Davies Street , Berkeley Square ; Lady Elcho of Queen Anne Street , Westminster ; in 1822 , Mrs Boucherett at J. Angerstein 's House , Pall Mall ; Miss E. Corbett of Wimpole Street ; Lady C. Denys at the Pavilion , Hans Square ; Lady Mary Eyre of Mortlake ; Mrs J. Franks of Charles Street , Berkeley Square ; Countess Glengall , Lower Grosvenor Street , Mrs Arabella Rainley , Chesterfield Street ; Mrs Rougement of Clapham ; Mrs Shepherd of Wimpole Street . |
| 5 | But when they reached the drawing room , the only people there were Mrs Denham and Martin , and the baby , which was sitting in a high chair . |
| 6 | In the slide in which I showed the overall results it appears that about half the patients , the erm marker tumour had been eradicated and in quite a lot of patients there were tumours present . |
| 7 | Apart from the Shah and the Queen , there were Colonel Jahanbini , the Shah 's principal bodyguard ; a few other guards ; his valet , Pourshoja ; the faithful Dr Lucy Pirnia , the family doctor ; and the dogs . |
| 8 | There were wicker chairs in the dark bar ; in one of them a soldier stretched out , snoring . |
| 9 | ‘ There were claw marks up the bank side where the badgers had been trying to get out . ’ |
| 10 | In Newham there were better domiciliary services in 1984 than in Ipswich ( for example it was possible for someone to have seven-day-a-week home help and meals-on-wheels cover ; there were day centres and day hospitals , and a good deal of voluntary organisation provision ) . |
| 11 | But there were life readings in the walls , floors and turbine-generators within the factory itself . |
| 12 | Skinheads and Punks appeared , using their own jargon — there were Hells Angels and four-letter words ( incidentally , I 'm still wondering what these words are ! ) . |
| 13 | There were craft workshops , shops and counting houses for the commercial and artisan community . |
| 14 | There were banana gardens and pawpaw trees , and outriggers lazed on the lagoon . |
| 15 | For the Scots there were tour places to Australia up for grabs : for the Welsh there was the need to secure the appointment of Davies and Norster by winning . |
| 16 | Brigitte did make enquiries at Pitmans , where classes started at five in the evening , and at the Kilburn Polytechnic , where there were weekend classes , but continued to doubt her ability to study enough at evening classes . |
| 17 | There were garments half-made and for mending bunched beneath her belt again , though she wore dresses now . |
| 18 | In ninety two there were redundancy costs to some extent offset by some er savings in payroll , there 'll by no redundancy cost relating to those previous redundancies in ninety three , but there will be the full saving on the payroll . |
| 19 | There were music rooms , hairdressing salons , beauty parlours , libraries , laundries , chapels , theatres , ballrooms , nurseries , and gymnasiums and health clubs armed with equipment which by modern standards appear more intent on medieval torture than health improvement . |
| 20 | Mr Gorbachev refused to broadcast a New Year Message to America and there were US protests when President Reagan 's message to the Soviets was jammed . |
| 21 | Though in the early days there were capacity problems at Gloucester , by and large the new arrangements have worked well . |
| 22 | Inside the office there were midget desks and a huge plans chest and a poster about putting fires out and another that showed two wooden-faced men and artificial respiration . |
| 23 | There were dialect pieces and local banter along with information on how a particular local player had performed a couple of hundred miles away . |
| 24 | There were engine fitters , electricians , riggers and er course there were sheet metal workers as well working in aluminium and pop rivets er there was er also a government inspection department and a works inspection department and er things and da the Air Ministry had to be very up to scratch you know erm |
| 25 | There were hairpin bends and soon we were lipping the edge of a two-thousand-foot drop , the river below occasionally glimpsed through ragged wind-torn holes in the cloud . |
| 26 | There were Peace Rallies in the 1960s , with stone-throwing anarchists running amok . |
| 27 | There were Sergeant Rose , whom everyone remembered for his fine singing voice , and Bob Lilley , married and at nearly 40 one of the oldest operatives . |
| 28 | There were limits o what one could say about milk yields and the EEC . |
| 29 | But oil traders said there would be no immediate impact as there were storage facilities with at least eight days supply at both ends of the pipeline system . |
| 30 | There were credit marks too for the silver haired John Boston . |