Example sentences of "[vb past] there be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But despite the er , rather individualistic nature of the context used there 's enough flexibility and openness within the subject content , to say . |
| 2 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 3 | We searched for examples around the country but found there were few operating in the National Health Service . |
| 4 | They found there was good agreement between both groups , although social workers tended to be more cautious in their judgements . |
| 5 | The Romans believed there were three sister Graces , befriended by the MUSES . |
| 6 | The servants believed there was some blight on Iskandara and her mother — they had gossiped across Alexandra in her nursery when she was supposedly too small to understand — some blight so that only daughters were born to these remarkable women who craved sons , and lone daughters at that , born late , at a time when most women were coming to an end of their childbearing . |
| 7 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 8 | But he added there was some evidence suggesting it did not arrive before Moscow issued its condemnation of the US action . |
| 9 | Before leaving the kitchen I noticed there were dirty coffee cups and plates piled in the sink . |
| 10 | Can I just one one final point there is e I did notice in my proof there was in in in typing there was one line I do n't know if you noticed there was one line that was missed off the bottom of one of the pages , and if I can er either give that to you . |
| 11 | Hagans solicitor augued there was little evidence for the earlier rape charge , he should be granted bail . |
| 12 | Medic Mike Jackson said : ‘ When we arrived there was total chaos but officers had administered emergency first aid and did a good job stemming the blood and calming the girl . ’ |
| 13 | In THE CITY THAT TIME FORGOT there is little hip hop , house or club culture . |
| 14 | So obviously when the war finished there was tremendous demand . |
| 15 | I am quite convinced that everyone we met there was each other 's cousin . |
| 16 | As she listened to other speakers , Hindu , Buddhist , Muslim , she realised there was great similarity . |
| 17 | I was over-qualified and signing on and I realised there was more money to be made taking my clothes off ’ . |
| 18 | I was over-qualified and signing on and I realised there was more money to be made taking my clothes off . |
| 19 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |
| 20 | yeah , that 's , that is it , that 's what I 've said er , got there 's one reason , one reason why |
| 21 | After I got there was this lorry chasing me , and I was always running |
| 22 | She had polished the glasses and checked there were seven Capstan in the cigarette box set on the low table beside the settee . |
| 23 | In view of the available evidence from the questions expressly asked there is little chance of disconfirming this view , although one may be inclined to regard it with a degree of scepticism . |
| 24 | Stevenson considered him thoughtfully but decided there was little profit in going on . |
| 25 | As news of the merger broke there were scattered protest demonstrations in Seoul and elsewhere and students clashed with police at five universities within the capital . |
| 26 | and the hydraulic hose on the back of the dustcart broke there was hydraulic fluid all over the |
| 27 | One useful result established there is that eqn ( 7.4 ) can be written as in which the anticipated dependence of curvature on the second derivatives of the metric coefficients is made explicit . |
| 28 | Table 4 demonstrates that in the period covered there was some income redistribution , but mainly towards middle income groups rather than those on the lowest levels . |
| 29 | We should have known that once Singapore fell there was little hope of holding Burma . |
| 30 | She managed to ring her doctor but felt there was little point as she was convinced she had lost the baby . |