Example sentences of "[conj] [ex0] be [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A local plan , however , is still a fairly new procedure but gathering in momentum although there are still authorities which do not have formal plans and even where there is such a plan they often only cover parts of the authority 's administration area , usually the central area only . |
2 | Nicols , Winch and Hobart held that the action was well laid because it was alleged that there was a request before the endeavour was made and where there is such a precedent request , a subsequent assumpsit after the execution of the consideration is binding . |
3 | Where there is such a difference , therefore , ‘ the judicial view ’ means that expressed by the Lord Chief Justice . |
4 | ‘ Either I 'm mad or people reincarnate , or there 's such a thing as possession , or … |
5 | or There 's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip . |
6 | There is evidence that there is such a bias ( Satz , 1979 ) . |
7 | But the most pure expression of capital capitalism is the the harnessing of private money to start private businesses , and a main concern of the institute of course , is that there is such a shortage potentially of capital , in the system , to do that . |
8 | The maxim on which I act at any moment is the personal rule which is guiding my behaviour — for Kant it is of the essence of voluntary action that there is such a maxim in every case . |
9 | Not only is there no evidence , apart from its assertion as above , that there is such a principle ; there are in fact constitutions which flout it with , apparently , no immediate ill effects . |
10 | Now it seems to me obvious that there is such a problem , er and to deny it seems to me to be to be denying the obvious . |
11 | The suggestions of homosexuality are , however , only one aspect of the attempt to discover some " mystery " which he wished to conceal ; and , in fact , the belief that there is such a secret has been largely provoked by the innate secretiveness of his own temperament . |
12 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
13 | There is a divergence of opinion on this question : Galloway , for example , argues that there is such a distinction , whilst others ( for example , the Pack Committee ) have defined all cases of non-excused absence as truancy . |
14 | Such work , however , rests on the assumption that there is such a figure , waiting to be accurately counted if only the right techniques can be developed . |
15 | The judge 's conclusion that there is such a risk was plainly wrong . |
16 | The idea that there is such a thing as the spirit of a time can be awkwardly challenged by asking , ‘ Whose time ? ’ |
17 | Yet in our bones we all know that there is such a thing as national character , even if only a fool or a racist would attempt to define its precise ingredients . |
18 | Particular genes can be switched on and off at particular times because the bottleneck/growth-cycle calendar ensures that there is such a thing as a particular time . |
19 | In the context of the UK as a whole , are we right ln assuming that there is such a thing as ‘ public opinion ’ , a ‘ general consensus ’ which is quantitatively different to ‘ local opinion ’ ? |
20 | If I admit that there is such a thing as a suicidal temperament , then I am forced to admit that there is also such a thing as an anorexic temperament . |
21 | Perhaps the charge that attitudinism makes ethics peculiarly irrational is merely a way of saying that it denies that there is such a thing as objective ethical truth . |
22 | She argues for the view that there is such a thing as a ‘ feminist perspective ’ and criticises feminist theorists ( de Beauvoir , Millett , Firestone and Reed ) who depend too heavily on existing ( male ) theories . |
23 | It is implied that there is such a thing as wind , which has the property of being able to cause the motion of objects such as prams , which stand in its path . |
24 | More serious is the fact that conventional doctors do not accept that there is such a thing as ‘ environmental illness ’ or the ‘ total allergy syndrome . ’ |
25 | Now there we have some fairly eminent people recognizing that there is such a thing as an affordable housing problem . |
26 | Even when you have convinced the travel agent that there is such a place , you are likely to become involved in a series of long telephone conversations . |
27 | My Lords there is no point in the Government denying that there is such a danger , pressure of precisely this character has been applied on chief officers of police outside our own shores . |
28 | That there is such a duty is established by the authority of Anderton v. Lythgoe [ 1985 ] 1 W.L.R. 222 . |
29 | If the court comes to the conclusion that there is such an interference , it must then decide whether or not the constable has lawful justification for his conduct , which can be found either in statute or the common law . |
30 | I remember erm was n't it Eyre that made great mileage of saying that just because there 's a word for beauty does n't mean to say that there 's such a thing as beauty . |