Example sentences of "there be [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing to beat that sense of a victory achieved by your own efforts . |
| 2 | ‘ And there 's something to connect these cases with Aurae Phiala ? ’ |
| 3 | AND , AS BARBARA CHANDLER DISCOVERS , THERE 'S SOMETHING TO SUIT ALL TASTES |
| 4 | Nor does it impress Freud to be told that religious propositions are ‘ as if ’ types of proposition , and that one should live ‘ as if ’ it were true that there were gods , or God , for there is nothing to lose this way . |
| 5 | There is nothing to contradict that view and much to support it . |
| 6 | Where no quorum is laid down in the standing orders , common sense must prevail even if , legally , there is nothing to stop one member continuing with the business ! |
| 7 | There is nothing to stop such organisations offering to pay the costs of libel actions , and editors deciding whether to settle will bear in mind the strength of the organisation behind the plaintiff . |
| 8 | There is nothing to encourage any speculation on what the butcher of Abbeville , the peasants , their wives or the priest in Les Perdris or Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , Barat , Haimet and Travers , or Jouglet et al. |
| 9 | There is nothing to suggest outright conflict between arians and catholics in the kingdom of Toulouse , except in the years of expansion under Euric . |
| 10 | There is nothing to suggest these levels have imporoved . |
| 11 | Mr Peter Shrigley , general manager of Oldham health authority , said : ‘ There is nothing to suggest any connection between hospital catering and this outbreak . |
| 12 | If title-page and the information on the reverse agree as to date , and there is nothing to indicate earlier editions , then you may well have a ‘ first ’ . |
| 13 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 14 | However , the political system is " open " and there is nothing to prevent any issue coming onto the governmental agenda for action and decision if an interest group seeks to put it there . |
| 15 | At the moment there is nothing to prevent another flood of 1966 proportions or worse , as was demonstrated by the exceptionally high tide of 8 December last . |
| 16 | But here 's a place where the food is good and there is plenty to feed hungry teenagers too . |
| 17 | There was nothing to do all day so we just lay about . |
| 18 | It was found that the matter was viewed as ‘ civil ’ in Norwegian law , and it was held that ( contrary to the view of Woolf L.J. ) there was nothing to take fiscal matters outside the civil category in English law , which embraced everything which was not a criminal matter . |
| 19 | There was nothing to stop Labour voters from supporting such rebels against the party truce in the privacy of the ballot box , although party members who publicly supported Common Wealth candidates suffered expulsion . |
| 20 | There was nothing to say one way or the other whether Madreidetic 's piratical policies would go on . |
| 21 | There was nothing to prevent escaped lunatics and psychopathic tramps from spending their Sunday afternoons rambling through Hampshire ; they had to spend them somewhere . |
| 22 | Any fool could see that with the ledgers and papers destroyed there was nothing to substantiate any misdealings with the accounts . |
| 23 | There was nobody to take immediate advantage of the breakthrough because it had until then been universally believed that the learning of language and the understanding of ideas depended on the ability to hear words . |