Example sentences of "[noun] [be] there [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What two reasons are there for the Plymouth-Roscoff ferry route being less busy than other cross-Channel ferry routes ?
2 How many T's are there on the surface of the ball ?
3 But sometimes they ask things like , ‘ Jon , how many owls are there in the world ? ’
4 Now my feeling is that in doing an evaluation one ought to try and develop each of these different viewpoints , then leave it to the people concerned that have to make the decisions to pick up each of these and to make the decisions , but at least the evaluation itself is not sort of ruling out of court any of the viewpoints that could be important in that situation , so any person who 's involved , even if they 're in a minority of one , at least feels that his views are there in the evaluation somewhere and they 're made legitimate by it .
5 Certainly the intention is there on the part of the professionals .
6 Nonetheless the play on words is there in the text , and is appropriate .
7 The technology for monitoring absenteeism is there for the companies that want to take control of what can be a major expense and loss of competitive edge .
8 The confusion was there from the beginning .
9 I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open
10 How many slices of bread are there in the loaf ?
11 Pens are there by the telephone .
12 You talk about a large list erm how many possible lectures are there on the list ?
13 Ill omens were there for the taking .
14 Even our 12-year-old boy is there in the clippings in his Mickey Mouse shirt with his cup of tea and his Kalashnikov rifle , scampering across page one on 25 September 1976 , behind that barricade of old doors , travelling with us to page four , column three , into that grassy interior .
15 Dunbar is there in the north , ’ said the prince , offering what even he felt to be dubious reassurance .
16 We do n't know the Pitt girl was there at the scene of his suicide , nor if there was any potassium cyanide left .
17 How many Welsh seats are there in the Commons ?
18 How many elephants are there in the room ?
19 Roughly how many engineering workers are there in the region shown on the map ?
20 How many other boards are there on the water ?
21 Randolph Churchill and Arthur Brittenden were there in the media vanguard .
22 I mean how much of a community is there in the flats ?
23 What difference is there between the sizes of the industrial sectors of Bristol and those on the general model ?
24 What major difference is there between the Yorkshire and Lancashire coalfields ?
25 Just very similar the difference is there in the pronunciation .
26 What difference is there in the extent of sheep farming between the Central
27 As soon as Mr Lamont has announced that the cash is there for the Jubilee Line and other great projects , Mr Heseltine must get intervening .
28 The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential .
29 ‘ How much truth is there in the phrase , What makes people tick ? ’ said Flavia .
30 " How much truth is there in the view that while Gladstone 's first " ministry was outstanding , his second was a disaster ? "
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