Example sentences of "[conj] there 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 .
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