Example sentences of "there [be] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sand and gravel there are at least an inch thick . |
| 2 | Where an instrumental ensemble is employed , with or without singers , it is necessary that there be at least a leader , if not a conductor . |
| 3 | Official figures are not available on the number of pickets injured , but there were at least a couple of fatalities and it is the opinion of some observers that , in the major conflicts of the dispute , casualties amongst the pickets greatly exceeded those of the police ( Wallington , 1985 : 149 ) . |
| 4 | There 's at least a metre . |
| 5 | There 's at least an hour or so of sunshine left . |
| 6 | And here there is at once a difficulty , in that the general productive order , throughout the centuries of the development of capitalism , has been predominantly defined by the market , and ‘ cultural production ’ , as we have seen , has been increasingly assimilated to its terms , yet any full identity between cultural production and general production has been to an important extent resisted , one of the forms of this resistance being the distinctions between ‘ artisan ’ , ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ artist ’ , and in an important related form the distinction between ‘ objects of utility ’ and ‘ objects of art ’ . |
| 7 | There is at least a decade to go until her grandson , Prince William , is ready to succeed her . |
| 8 | With a transplant there is at least a chance that the victim will walk away from the hospital and enjoy a period of tolerable life ( slim though that chance may be ) . |
| 9 | If , therefore , it is difficult at this stage for us to establish with any certainty general patterns of cause and effect between ‘ industrialization ’ and the relatively autonomous conjugal family , it may be possible for us to argue that there is at least a degree of fit , a congruence , between these two elements . |
| 10 | On the other hand , there are vast numbers of planets in the Universe , so there is at least a possibility that , somewhere , such a lifeform exists . |
| 11 | There is at least a possibility that given the opportunity to reconsider their votes a majority of voters would have chosen Camel . |
| 12 | Moreover , there is at least a possibility that local authorities will house them and their rent will be paid under housing costs . |
| 13 | Therefore , a lawyer , a financial analyst , an accountant , or journalist , aware of inside information relating to a company in whose shares he trades , is liable under Rule 10b-5 notwithstanding the absence of a fiduciary duty to the issuer of the securities provided there is at least a duty owed to another person — here the law firm , the financial intermediary , the accountancy firm , or the newspaper . |
| 14 | Discourse is reciprocal when there is at least a potential for interaction , when the sender can monitor reception and adjust to it — or , to put it another way , where the receiver can influence the development of what is being said . |
| 15 | However , as a result of a recent Court of Appeal case ( Eurocopy plc v Teasdale , reported only in the November 1991 edition of the journal PLC ) there is at least a risk that the purchaser will be deprived of a remedy for breach of warranty where it is aware of the breach following a disclosure or otherwise , and despite any provisions in the sale and purchase agreement that no actual or constructive knowledge on the part of the purchaser would prejudice a claim . |
| 16 | so it follows that there is at least a risk that clause nine will be struck down on your defence |
| 17 | But there is at least a hint in the Bill that in certain circumstances opted-out schools ( to be referred to as grant-maintained schools ) might receive extra funds from the DES : although in general such schools are to receive funding equivalent to that which they would have received from the LEA , Clause 67 ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) lay down that for certain ‘ special purposes ’ extra non-recurrent or recurrent grants may be forthcoming . |
| 18 | My recollection was that it was £250 for a great deal of work and endless consultations with courteous BBC representatives who were terrified by my refusal to produce a total text ( since I can only give plausibility to anything I say when there is at least an element extemporised ) and refused to accept my positive assurances that I was as unlikely to dry up as the Thames . |
| 19 | Not many couples will enter into a marital or quasi-marital Partnership with specific reservations as to its duration but for most there is at least an awareness of the Possibility of its breakdown . |
| 20 | There is in both a sense of the elemental . |
| 21 | There was at least a proviso that she should be asked for her written consent before the company was set up but otherwise she was not mentioned in his plans for the future of the schools . |
| 22 | There was at least a sufficiency of migrant Italian house and garden servants , who rendered any conventional mother 's help more than redundant . |