Example sentences of "[verb] there be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowe put in that the symbolists of Van Gogh 's time had supposed there was a universal language of colour , a primary language , a divine alphabet of colours and forms . |
| 2 | Has there been a corresponding decrease or , has there been an increase at all in other departments er , due , one presumes through having more information there will be a staffing reduction elsewhere . |
| 3 | Nothing … diminishes the recognition that the place to improve formal education is in the classroom and that what is done there is a local responsibility . |
| 4 | SUICIDAL children in Ellesmere Port who turn to counsellors for help are being told there is a 50-week waiting list , it was claimed last night . |
| 5 | ‘ At Risley when they heard about my sentencing , I was told there was a near riot . ’ |
| 6 | As both politicians and the public become more economically orientated there is a knock-on effect such that organizations are required to place a far greater emphasis on controlling costs and on the provision of relevant financial information . |
| 7 | We sat down to knit , but before we had settled there was a loud knock on the door . |
| 8 | It was growing uncomfortably warm inside the pod , but with the third skin gone there was a transparent patch in the casing shell level with his face . |
| 9 | Always when the snow had recently fallen there was a damp fog over the camp , a link between the low grey cloud and the whitened ground . |
| 10 | When the patient is removed there is a dramatic change for the better ! |
| 11 | giving the judgment of the court said : ‘ The Court of Appeal … held … they were guilty of theft because when the bottles were taken there was a dishonest appropriation . |
| 12 | However , though it may not be ; as great as has sometimes been maintained there is a genuine difference . |
| 13 | Even when age of acquisition and age at time of test are controlled there is a consistent gap in favour of production over comprehension of BSL for groups of signers with average six , 12 and 20 years ' experience ( Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | Politics being concerned with the power to govern there is a constant tendency , a need perhaps , for governments to seek an accretion of power . |