Example sentences of "there were the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were the predictable problems with sanitary arrangements . |
| 2 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 3 | Certainly there were the broad guidelines of dispersal and decentralization . |
| 4 | In Wales , there were the existing nuclear developments at Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd and Wylfa on the Isle of Anglesey . |
| 5 | There were the open-air vats alongside A12 where acid burned out the plutonium before the sludge could be reprocessed . |
| 6 | Firstly , there were the rich , who owned farms and employed labour in both agriculture and the home and who made up 20 per cent of the population . |
| 7 | And there were the twelve evil Lords who served the necromancer Medoc . |
| 8 | ‘ And there were the Twelve Companions of Odysseus and the Twelve faithful Apostles , ’ said Snizort . |
| 9 | There were the long-handled wooden shovels used for transferring the food into sacks , and at the end of the aisle there rose , like the bulk of a god 's statue in a temple , a wooden hopper , its side bound with bronze . |
| 10 | Somewhere there were the right words and he would speak them . |
| 11 | Then there were the hot , spiced , yeast buns with their shine of sugar on top . |
| 12 | Apart from those who largely followed the path of organic growth — the Sainsburys and Westons — there were the clever deal makers , such as Robert Maxwell , Sir James Goldsmith or Peter de Savary . |
| 13 | There were the Prime Ministers — and my scoop with Harold Wilson . |
| 14 | Then there were the nice people who were n't interesting , and you did n't want to know what they thought of anything . |
| 15 | there were the frowsty church , |
| 16 | First , there were the financial consequences of Labour 's blind support for a dictatorial trade union leader , who is now as popular in Walworth road as a fox cub in front of the Quorn hunt . |
| 17 | Finally , there were the eight oboes attached to the musqueteers who , in addition to their military functions , played for court entertainments . |
| 18 | And all the time there were the escalating costs for handling , packaging and processing the wastes at the Sellafield complex . |
| 19 | About two minutes later Danny 's truck , with us following close behind , turned a corner and there was the slip road leading to the Motorway — only nothing was ever going to get far down that road for there were the four big trucks in Big Ben 's convoy lined up wall to wall across the road facing us . |
| 20 | Besides the open arable fields , there were the extensive ‘ wastes ’ of various kinds . |
| 21 | Then there were the molasse-type sands , which in their drab , khaki featurelessness are recognisable in the smallest exposures from Spain to Bulgaria and beyond . |
| 22 | There were the traditional children 's sports and a number of sideshows ; no coconut shys , but an egg-throwing game which , traditionally , must have belonged to Easter celebrations . |
| 23 | Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other . |
| 24 | There were the unfinished shoes for Emily Grenfell lying on the bench , the amethysts agleam against the softness of the leather . |
| 25 | She wished there were the faintest chance that he would drop being breezy . |
| 26 | Then there were the sheer indignities of a professional cricketer 's life — the separate entrances , changing facilities , menial jobs to do around the club , even the placing of the man 's initials after his surname to signify servile status . |
| 27 | Then there were the chronic sick who had to be looked after . |
| 28 | Infectious diseases came regularly — smallpox , dysentery , malaria , cholera ; and in addition there were the regular happenings — broken limbs , snake bite , toothache , injury from treading on a sharp bamboo or from a misdirected blow from the dah , a long chopper-knife which every family kept for domestic and jungle use . |
| 29 | There were the odd women inspectors . |
| 30 | There were the odd murmurings , the sounds echoing throughout the large building , but they were quickly quelled by warders anxious to maintain silence . |