Example sentences of "there [is] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There 's no such name ! ’
2 So it 's not there 's no such word .
3 THERE never was a Joe Bloggs — there 's no such surname .
4 There 's no such problem with the GRID 9000 .
5 There 's no such street , ’ he said .
6 There 's no such justification for the LCD ( liquid crystal display ) screen : it 's just small .
7 In this story , however , there 's no such shame because Ruth has not been rejected .
8 There 's no such thing as a love affair unless there is an exchange .
9 This little shoemaker I 'm carving is a leprechaun [ he pronounced it ‘ leprehorn ’ ] and the priest will say there 's no such thing .
10 There 's no such thing as a free lunch .
11 There 's no such thing as a free lunch . ’
12 There 's no such thing as upper class , ’ his father answered firmly .
13 To the professionals who work with troubled couples , however , there 's no such thing as the wronged spouse .
14 Part of the chapter on motivation deals with obesity , and the discussion of theories of why we stuff ourselves is capped by a cartoon in which a chef tells a fat blimp ‘ As far as I know there 's no such thing as a diet cream puff . ’
15 There 's no such thing as an ‘ external vagina ’ .
16 Experts agree that there 's no such thing as an ‘ orthopaedic ’ bed — most are simply very , very firm which , far from curing a back problem , could actually aggravate it .
17 There 's no such thing as a slave in England .
18 There 's no such thing , ’ said Ivy firmly ; and as , if feminine intuition existed , she above all women would have been gifted with it , I think we must believe her .
19 There 's no such thing as a text book jump and catch in international rugby : I was naive in thinking so .
20 THERE 'S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH
21 As QC George Carman said towards the end of the Mona Bauwens court case earlier this week : ‘ There 's no such thing as a free lunch . ’
22 ‘ I think it was Victoria Wood who said that there 's no such thing as bad taste in humour because if it 's bad taste no one laughs .
23 There 's no such thing as impartial arbitration in El Salvador .
24 That means there 's no such thing as a " silly " question in a tutorial — provided it 's relevant .
25 Nietzsche , the German philosopher , adduced his argument from classical concepts — ‘ This proves that there 's no such thing as God ’ — but when quantum mechanics came along , it threw all that out of the window .
26 Simon , likewise , declared that ‘ there 's no such thing as class ; you 're only as good as you are ’ .
27 Reiterating that ‘ there 's no such thing as ‘ race ’ ’ offers only the frail reassurance that there should n't be a problem .
28 " There 's no such thing as a work-line , " I said , irritable through misery that he wanted to go .
29 There 's no such thing as a meaningless gesture , ’ he said , after emptying himself of that thought .
30 There 's no such thing as ghosts , ’ she affirmed .
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