Example sentences of "there [be] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Never has there been so great a need for the talented people universities can provide and nurture , ’ he says . |
| 2 | The Home Office informs local forces of its views by advisory circulars of which there are about 100 a year . |
| 3 | However there are currently available a number of MT systems which perform limited translation ( of controlled syntax or vocabulary ) or translation-related tasks ( machine-aided translation ) . |
| 4 | Goodwill , training , time , skill and pupil support are all likely to be in shorter supply than would be the case if there were not such a plethora of assessment innovations taking place at the same time . |
| 5 | There were also all the stock characters in an army unit who stayed on when the Pinewood machine swept into the sequel business . |
| 6 | As we have noted , if there were ever such a thing as a variety that was completely insulated and unaffected by external influence , these findings suggest very strongly that it would not be uniform and that there would still be variable community norms within it . |
| 7 | However there were almost double the number of concordant twins who had both DR3 and DR4 antigen than there were discordant twins with both antigens . |
| 8 | And with the young doctor who tries to help Raskolnikov , the voice of the underground man has become more accessibly funny : ‘ I admit there 's scarcely such a thing as a normal human being . |
| 9 | Erm , I was n't aware that Linda , erm , was a good cook , she 's been tell me she 's a good cook , I was n't aware of that , because in one her drawers there 's normally half a tea cake , a scone or whatever you like . |
| 10 | Well there 's already half a tape full of Charlotte 's bodily functions . |
| 11 | O K , if I could actually show you a way where there 's not such a problem today , how would you feel then ? |
| 12 | ‘ In Australia you are not supposed to have a cleaner or someone to do things for you , there 's not such a class distinction . |
| 13 | Mind you , I 'm not saying as that 's what she 'll get for the asking , and I 'm not saying there 's not many a man as 'll hand over his pay-packet unopened , but there 's enough of the other sort to give us a bit of a breather Thursdays . ’ |
| 14 | So it 's not his his fault but a lot of the training that we have to deliver is to do with procedures that he had n't dealt with whereas a lot of the procedures are things that I 'm familiar with there 's only some the job centre stuff |
| 15 | There 's only half the class so you ca n't really throw many eggs and rotten tomatoes and things can you ? |
| 16 | There 's only half an hour intermission while the news is on and the votes are collated , and the contestants ' fear ferments into an almost hysterical euphoria . |
| 17 | I feel now , erm just from talking to people , that there 's very much a feeling of er a torpor , erm a kind of hiatus of waiting for something to happen , waiting to be moved out , looking forward to that . |
| 18 | Meanhwile Henry Skelton 's mother believes there 's very little the university authorities can do to deal with drug-taking |
| 19 | ‘ There 's obviously all the pressure and all the talk about who is going to win the championship . |
| 20 | I think there 's about half a pint left . |
| 21 | Scotland could n't manage more than a tweak of the giants ' noses , but showed that there 's still such a thing as going down with honour . |
| 22 | According to my watch there 's still half an hour of the so-called working day left and I think that 's long enough to locate the appropriate file , do n't you ? ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was an excellent idea to couple the 1915 El Amor brujo with El Retablo de Maese Pedro , to show that there is not such a gulf between the ‘ Andalusian ’ and ‘ Castillian ’ periods of Fall 's musical output as is commonly supposed . |
| 25 | 16–6–1843 " Considering that within the bounds of this parish there is not such a number of adherants , as would of themselves form a Congregation , but that it is necessary that the parish of Bowmore . |
| 26 | Obviously , if there is not such a situation , the company should invest in every positive-NPV product available to it , subject to having the capacity to manage investment on that scale . |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't like to say that there is not such a thing as black magic but I know of a coincidence , or something that happened regularly . |
| 28 | Newcastle Polytechnic were unable to become simply ‘ Newcastle University ’ , because there is already such a university . |
| 29 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 30 | But his conclusion is that there is n't such a thing as an aphrodisiac . |