Example sentences of "[coord] there [be] such 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
| 4 | It was the men there who were aggrieved , who had had better wages as the war had ended and there was such a rush on , wages had gone up , but the once the boom was got over they came down . |
| 5 | And there was such a caress in his voice that Grainne felt her heart lurch . |
| 6 | And there was such a look of stark relief in his eyes that his beloved cousin was safe , after all , that , just for a moment , to hide her own pain , Ronni had to drop her gaze away . |
| 7 | She has done it much better , and there was such a quantity of it here ; I dreaded the child coming in , as much as others must have done , but for different reasons . |
| 8 | H.T.s and Floribundas are glorious , but there is such a thing as too much sameness , as the saying goes : ‘ having too much of a good thing ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ All right , you became pregnant then , but there is such a thing as birth control and — Watch out ! ’ |
| 10 | But there is such a thing as international law |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They would have had , but there was such a crush in the bar , there was no prospect of getting served before the curtain went up . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought I 'd better prove that I do n't always forget about normal times for refreshing the inner man , ’ he drawled , but there was such a twinkle in his eyes , so much charm in his manner , that Fabia felt quite overcome by it . |