Example sentences of "[conj] there 's [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Either I 'm mad or people reincarnate , or there 's such a thing as possession , or … |
| 2 | or There 's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | and erm was n't it Ayer that made great erm mileage out of saying , ‘ Just because there 's a word for beauty does n't mean to say that there 's such a thing as beauty ’ . |
| 5 | The United manager , Alex Ferguson , discovered last season that there 's many a slip on the way to the championship , and he did n't attempt to conceal the importance of this Old Trafford showdown , with United leading Villa on goal difference in pursuit of their first title since 1967 . |
| 6 | Everybody 's completely different and there 's such a tendency not to study people really and to simply think of them as all exactly the same , ‘ You 're 75 and you 're old and you 've got to put up with that . |
| 7 | really cos there 's such a cross section of conversation going on , it 's really funny there 's this bit in the car when we went outside with the mike and on a at Claire 's party and er erm like there 's me talking to Claire really loudly like across the car and Frank talking to Nigel across the front and he speakers were up here and there 's just a whaaaaaaa this massive rabble going on . |
| 8 | But , erm I think they could instead have an electric fox , if there 's such a thing ? |
| 9 | But there 's many a missus as needs to be home when her old man comes in from work on a Thursday , if she 's to get her proper share of his pay-packet . |
| 10 | Nothing is more certain than that there will be injuries and that one or two will lose some form before April , but there 's such a depth in the Highbury squad that this wo n't be a problem . |
| 11 | That sounds very snooty , as tequila is n't cheap in this country , but there 's such a snob value on Tequila Gold these days that ordinary mescal juice simply wo n't do . |
| 12 | Crook added : ‘ People might be saying this is the beginning of the end of our challenge , but There 's such a lot more to come from us . |
| 13 | I think it 's because there 's such a lot of mixed people here now . |