Example sentences of "there be a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are a hundred assassins lurking in the bushes , Prime Minister . |
| 2 | You must remember that to every ten real connoisseurs there are a hundred ignoramuses . |
| 3 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But there are a hundred referees that take panel games , and two thirds of those are assessed regularly . |
| 5 | But for every triumph there are a thousand tragedies . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , there are a thousand reasons why I wanted them to wait . ’ |
| 7 | " " There are a thousand lettuces in a pile at the top of the marsh . |
| 8 | In your job there are a thousand details which you and your team need to pay attention to . |
| 9 | This fool butterfly must have been a chrysallis — there are a million tortoiseshells pirouetting on the purple flowers all the warm months — a chrysallis left from last August . |
| 10 | ‘ Once past the Swamp and across the Highway there are a dozen paths to choose from . ’ |
| 11 | There are a dozen states asking to join and participate in an all-European economic and political arrangement . |
| 12 | For every bright-eyed wagon train or trail blazing adventure , there are a dozen Westerns dealing with lawmen or outlaws who have outlived their times and now find themselves constrained by the pettiness of a civilisation which is rarely grateful for the way they have cleared the ground for its progress . |
| 13 | This is not the place to explain logic , but there are a few bits of terminology which occur often in this subject which are not entirely standard . |
| 14 | Yes , there are a few laughs . |
| 15 | I do n't think it 's surprising that there are a few sceptics around . ’ |
| 16 | There are a few conditions ; you must have been sailing within the area or bands briefed by the flotilla skipper , timing starts when the lead boat acknowledges the failure , and you must return to UK with a report signed by the flotilla skipper detailing the circumstances . |
| 17 | So there are a few initiatives there , but I do n't think there 's been done anything on the music front though . |
| 18 | ‘ I know a lot of people from non-League who are going , and there are a few buses taking friends and relations , ’ he said . |
| 19 | There are a few others , but those records are the ones I enjoyed the most . ’ |
| 20 | I think there are a few others but not many . |
| 21 | Young Charles is one of several up and coming teenagers in the Halkyn team along with Gareth Jacobs and Gareth Thomas , while there are a few others in the second eleven hoping for a first team chance . |
| 22 | There are a few signs of that fierce screwing up of feudal payments characteristic of the later stages of the ancien régime in France ; in Catalonia , for instance , a steady increase in the price of the farms of feudal dues overtook the rise in agricultural prices . |
| 23 | Sorry , this show came up so suddenly , there are a few dates we 'll have to work round . ’ |
| 24 | If all these people are doing the same job officially in the real world we know that some people are more proficient than others that in some things or others , can you see how quickly go down that line and you say to yourself well Mr A you know he 's got all those there great but there are a few gaps . |
| 25 | There are a few gaps , with ground cover to stop the soil slipping . |
| 26 | It 's true that there are a few natives here ( known as ‘ Eyeties ’ to the British colonials ) , who are useful to serve as maids , waiters or ‘ chaps to look after the swimming-pool ’ . |
| 27 | In any case , the certainty one feels is normally misplaced , although there are a few instances when genuinely creative thinking has been documented as taking place during dreams . |
| 28 | There are a few instances , however , when even TNF needs further simplification , and these are looked at in Section 3.8 which may be skipped on first reading . |
| 29 | As we shall see in Section 3.8 , there are a few instances when even TNF needs further simplification , and Kent ( 1983 ) and Date ( 1990 ) describe these extensions . |
| 30 | There are a few copies remaining of newsletter . |