Example sentences of "[vb past] there be [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time it was a tradition that when someone in a family died there was always a bow of black ribbon draped over the top of their photograph frame . |
| 2 | As darkness fell there was hardly a soul about , but just before 9pm it seemed the whole village poured out into the street , and there appeared two men carrying shoulder-high the most grotesque straw figure of a man , its eyes glowing in the darkness from torch bulbs hidden in its head . |
| 3 | They were n't hers and she knew there was always a danger in wanting other peoples ' things for oneself . |
| 4 | ‘ She thought there was probably a friendship . ’ |
| 5 | Clearly , serious efforts were being made to bring the new Court up to standard , though Malmesbury thought there was still a way to go before all would be consolidated : |
| 6 | If the Sun Chariot emphasised the spreading cloak of Arab domination , then the Cambridgeshire proved there is still a place for the smaller owner when Jeremy Glover sent out Rambo 's Hall , the only horse to have won for him this season , to gain an equally facile success . |
| 7 | We must never forget that the history of kinship presented there is primarily a criticism of capitalist society and that Marx and Engels were not attempting to set themselves up as anthropologists . |
| 8 | Herodotus said there is never a wind from the Nile , never , never … ’ |
| 9 | Auntie May , though , said there 's only a quartet , and after he 's done some solo pieces he 's playing with them . |
| 10 | He said there was clearly a case for considering a new body whose sole responsibility would be banking supervision . |
| 11 | Skiers there said there was always a chance something would go wrong . |
| 12 | He said there was never a day when he did not believe they would survive . |
| 13 | THE conservative arch-rival of Russia 's leader , Boris Yeltsin , yesterday backtracked on demands for the president 's impeachment and said there was still a chance they could reach agreement to end the power struggle that is paralysing the country . |
| 14 | However , he suggested there was perhaps a need to look into the system more closely . |