Example sentences of "there was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Kirkman Finlay and Dixon were Whigs , the Tory nominees in the Burgh Councils not having obtained the burgh nomination , and there was the curious position of two candidates from the same party contesting the same Parliamentary seat . |
| 2 | At the beginning there was the ritual flurry of meetings and consultations with members of Congress , but these soon tapered off and there was , in any case , little real meeting of minds . |
| 3 | There was the 9.15 and the 10.07 , and the midnight train that sometimes woke them from their dreams . |
| 4 | There was that black future to fend off : there was the endless black past to staunch and help . |
| 5 | Nahum was immediately contrite , apologizing for his hesitation and assuring her that her health was more important than anything else , especially if there was the longed-for reason for her tiredness . |
| 6 | They slowed it to a steady well , but it would n't stop , and through it all there was the awful screaming . |
| 7 | ‘ Then there was the traditional side : I had most tutorials with Gifford ( I was his pete ) and Scattergood , who was lovely . ’ |
| 8 | After the first night there was the traditional party at Sardi 's while the reviews were awaited . |
| 9 | First there was the broad statement of intent in the policy review document and then there was the controversial TUC composite resolution — an incompetently constructed mosaic of competing interests . |
| 10 | Then , at Liverpool , there was the controversial decision to off-load Dean Saunders , once a £2.9m British record buy , to Aston Villa last September . |
| 11 | There was the vague suggestion of orange light beyond the high wall that marked the rear boundary of Amelia 's property ; the streetlamps were already on . |
| 12 | And there was the unspoken assumption that , if I failed , I was letting the side down , disappointing my parents , hurting them . |
| 13 | Even then , there was the embarrassing prospect that the Romanian players might have to walk the dark streets between having a bath at 3.30pm and the official dinner at 7.30pm . |
| 14 | On the one hand there was the central government and its economic ( and taxation ( plans which laid down broad policy and investment strategy ; on the other hand was the ‘ club ’ of often just two traditional suppliers of equipment . |
| 15 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 16 | There was the mournful sound of human voices , and then a jolt . |
| 17 | Finally , there was the Ottoman Empire itself , still in 1880 formally suzerain also over Bosnia and Herzegovina , and still administering the Sanjak of Novi Bazar ( between Montenegro and Serbia ) although Austro-Hungarian troops occupied it . |
| 18 | There was the deep throb of music coming from the barn , the unmistakable noise of many lively conversations . |
| 19 | Up in the north , there was the occasional extreme Protestant rumble about the evils of that character ; but in general , the Britain of the seventeenth century was absorbed by more immediate concerns . |
| 20 | Window-cleaners called here , there was the occasional gardener , and bread , milk and newspapers were delivered . |
| 21 | After closure of the line , there was the occasional train into Hyde 's siding at Horns Bridge plus a few demolition trains . |
| 22 | Certainly there was the occasional spectacular apostasy from civilized values , as in the case of Jack Driberg , a Kenya Masai official who went native and then proceeded to a distinguished career as a lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge ; but on the whole the records , in so far as they can be relied on in such matters do not support this view . |
| 23 | Of course there was the occasional hiccup , such as when they 'd arrived at the nightclub to see a particularly gorgeous girl whom the Press had linked with Ace in the past . |
| 24 | Here and there was the occasional flower bed ; the lilies and other wild flowers struggling to thrive amongst the brambles and weeds . |
| 25 | Again there was the leaf-like chuckle . |
| 26 | And there was the like for the corn and that we used to what we called hammling it was done with a flail . |
| 27 | Death was something that only happened to other people — except there was the ragged hole that the shadow-voices had opened up in her and Zulei was tearing at it and there was death behind . |
| 28 | To begin with , there was the accumulated pre-war experience , which stretched back into the nineteenth century , of labour being the cheap factor of production — an attitude reflected in the slow development of cost-accounting in Britain . |
| 29 | But there were strong iron bars at the windows , and there was the dry , stick-like sound of bones ; there was the mindless chuckling again … |
| 30 | There was the perceptible odour of tar which the barge-owners , since so much of their day was spent in running repairs , left behind them everywhere . |