Example sentences of "[be] there [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you did n't have to go there or be there at a certain time . |
| 2 | Erm but they seemed to be there for a specific purpose , but the normal day to day |
| 3 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
| 4 | Do you have to be there for a certain amount of time ? |
| 5 | If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time … |
| 6 | ‘ I am sure that whatever happens he will always be there in a consultative role . |
| 7 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 8 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 9 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 10 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 11 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 12 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 13 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 14 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 15 | It has been estimated that as many as 10% of old people admitted to hospital are there as a direct result of drugs prescribed by their GP ( Age Concern , 1977 ) , and Phillipson ( 1982 ) suggests that much over-prescription of drugs is a conscious attempt to control the medical demands on the health service by older people . |
| 16 | ‘ Most of the residents are there on a permanent basis , but there 's a brand-new wing that has just been opened and is almost exclusively for short-term patients — people like Jennifer who ca n't be left alone , who need constant attention . ’ |
| 17 | The presence of a few colonies of candida does not constitute infection , however , any more than the presence of many other organisms in small numbers in the vagina means that they are there in a pathogenic capacity . |
| 18 | 3 ) How many notes are there in a Chromatic scale ? |
| 19 | ‘ They were there for a good couple of hours and when I left at around 2.00pm they were still interviewing players in the spare dressing rooms . ’ |
| 20 | The rest were there in a self-conscious group at the side . |
| 21 | The diagram shape is there as a visual aid for the knitter to see the ultimate shape of the garment section being knitted . |
| 22 | It is doubtful if the material is there for a first-class combination . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I think we 've got to help them because there is still a lot of poverty and the potential is there for a social explosion , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Then we bury the toad in an ant-hill ; and it 's there for a full month , till the moon is at the full . |
| 25 | On her travels she 's there with a goofy grin and a different pose for every occasion . |
| 26 | ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me . |
| 27 | The possibility was there for a tremendous finish . |
| 28 | You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it . |
| 29 | Yet what alternative was there for a female orator ? |
| 30 | Shildon was there with a young officer . |