Example sentences of "there [be] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Never has there been such a farce ’ |
| 2 | Not since 1949 has there been such a chance to abolish blood sports and just 13 absent MPs blew it . |
| 3 | Why has there been such a history of cross-dressing in films ? |
| 4 | Not since the fire at Alexandria had there been such a concentration of the world 's True Knowledge in one building . |
| 5 | Has there been such a restoration , since 1920 ? |
| 6 | Never before had there been such a team put out by any club . ’ |
| 7 | Never before has there been such a catalogue of successive shocks and scandals in the Royal Family , culminating now in the separation of Charles and Diana . |
| 8 | The plot , should there be such a thing , thickens as Fleeting has consistently put more cash on the table than his opponent . |
| 9 | Given the racial , regional and economic diversity surveyed in the last chapter , how can there be such a thing as ‘ European ’ assumptions ? |
| 10 | Jacob , increasingly since he commenced going to university , might be missing for the rest of the day ; Joshua , particularly in the summer , would go out for long walks in the country , following , he said , the course of some meshuggeneh game in which young men threw an iron ball along the road and ran after it — could there be such a game ? |
| 11 | Even if there were such a description it would be difficult to imagine the number of working years it would take to arrive at a complete frequency description of a novel , let alone " the language as a whole " . |
| 12 | If there were such a mechanism , if a cloud resembling a weasel or a camel could give rise to a lineage of other clouds of roughly the same shape , cumulative selection would have the opportunity to get going . |
| 13 | There were such a lot of us … |
| 14 | ‘ There were such a lot of women in his life . |
| 15 | There were such a lot of people there . |
| 16 | The court said that there was no general rule that a valuation made on an " erroneous principle " ( which presumably means the same as a mistaken decision ) had to stand unless it were also shown that a valuation on the right principle would produce a materially different figure from the figure of the erroneous valuation : if there were such a rule , it would place on the objector the extra burden of making a fresh valuation which in its turn might also be rejected . |
| 17 | But I I 'd said to Angela there were some a while back but I 'd not sh shown them her . |
| 18 | And then of course the there were some a lot of them mass produced then there was the mass producer come in then . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's such a variety of landscapes , it 's like a new world . ’ |
| 20 | Nothing is more certain than that there will be injuries and that one or two will lose some form before April , but there 's such a depth in the Highbury squad that this wo n't be a problem . |
| 21 | There 's such a wealth of material and talent in Northern Ireland — I 'd like to see more producers coming to us with ideas and telling us what they want to do , not waiting for us to tell them what we want |
| 22 | Er , there 's such a change , tremendous change in the general attitudes of the people . |
| 23 | Everybody 's completely different and there 's such a tendency not to study people really and to simply think of them as all exactly the same , ‘ You 're 75 and you 're old and you 've got to put up with that . |
| 24 | Yeah it 's one thing that er we have to reem reemphasize to people and usually I do it on the phone , that if people have got businesses erm the way look at it there 's such a commitment by this company |
| 25 | I 'm not dismissing your desire for a baby but you should ask yourself why there 's such a gap in your life . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's such a gap between the rich and the poor , ’ gnashes Martin . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's such a gap between the rich and the poor , ’ gnashes Martin . |
| 28 | And now there 's su , there 's such a gap a blooming draft comes in |
| 29 | One is the reasons why there 's such a difference , a and two is do we need to take any action ? |
| 30 | really cos there 's such a cross section of conversation going on , it 's really funny there 's this bit in the car when we went outside with the mike and on a at Claire 's party and er erm like there 's me talking to Claire really loudly like across the car and Frank talking to Nigel across the front and he speakers were up here and there 's just a whaaaaaaa this massive rabble going on . |