Example sentences of "there [be] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has there been such a history of cross-dressing in films ? |
| 2 | Not since the fire at Alexandria had there been such a concentration of the world 's True Knowledge in one building . |
| 3 | Never before has there been such a catalogue of successive shocks and scandals in the Royal Family , culminating now in the separation of Charles and Diana . |
| 4 | Where the husband goes so far as to cause injury , there are available a number of offences against the person with which he may be charged , but the gravamen of the husband 's conduct is the injury he has caused not the sexual intercourse he has forced . ’ |
| 5 | Of course , the choice of indicators is not a straightforward business even though , these days , there are available a number of fairly standard ones , such as occupation as an indicator of social class . |
| 6 | There were such a lot of us … |
| 7 | ‘ There were such a lot of women in his life . |
| 8 | There were such a lot of people there . |
| 9 | And then of course the there were some a lot of them mass produced then there was the mass producer come in then . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's such a variety of landscapes , it 's like a new world . ’ |
| 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 | There 's such a wealth of material and talent in Northern Ireland — I 'd like to see more producers coming to us with ideas and telling us what they want to do , not waiting for us to tell them what we want |
| 13 | Yeah it 's one thing that er we have to reem reemphasize to people and usually I do it on the phone , that if people have got businesses erm the way look at it there 's such a commitment by this company |
| 14 | ‘ There 's such a gap between the rich and the poor , ’ gnashes Martin . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's such a gap between the rich and the poor , ’ gnashes Martin . |
| 16 | I 'm not dismissing your desire for a baby but you should ask yourself why there 's such a gap in your life . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's such a lot of you way down somewhere . |
| 18 | There 's such a lot of er erm extraordinary sayings in this er epistle . |
| 19 | There 's such a lot of work goes into them . |
| 20 | I think it 's because there 's such a lot of mixed people here now . |
| 21 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 22 | It 's awful really when you think there 's such a lot of people got away with it all |
| 23 | Now let me just work through this with you so as er wh you know it 's unfortunate there 's such a lot in these things that er |
| 24 | Then I 'll call a district meeting where I 'll get other branches together erm shop stewards and that , and I 'll pass this information , I 've let them know there 's such a thing as . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | or There 's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip . |
| 29 | There 's half a can in there still . |
| 30 | The larvae of ichneumid wasps are parasitic on the developmental stages of insects or spiders , which egg laying females locate by searching narrowly circumscribed micro-habitats ; they are as much niche-specific as host-specific , and it is because there is such a range of niches in a garden that there are so many kinds of adult wasps . |