Example sentences of "there be [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why does nobody why 's there been so many accidents involving |
| 2 | WHY HAS THERE BEEN SO LITTLE COMMUNITY BENEFIT ? |
| 3 | Not since Harold Wilson prattled on about the white heat of the technological revolution — or some similar meaningless platitude — and launched Concorde , has there been so much talk about innovation and our intellectual heritage . |
| 4 | Never before has there been so much concern with health or so much fear about health . |
| 5 | Never before had there been as many as nine of his members in a Masters field and every one of them made the cut . |
| 6 | There are normally several senior mathematicians visiting the department from overseas . |
| 7 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 8 | Some schools do provide for students to be granted a scholarship towards the cost of tuition , but there are not many endowments of this kind . |
| 9 | Mike Davies , General Manager of the International Tennis Federation , said : ‘ There are not many events in the world that can claim to have continuous sponsorship for 14 years as will be the case of Coca-Cola . |
| 10 | There are not many better books than Lewis 's . |
| 11 | There are not many precedents for the same Secretary of State and the same Permanent Secretary serving together for the best part of six years . |
| 12 | There are not many broadcasters who could undertake four major outside broadcasts like these within 24 hours . |
| 13 | A few places are far , far hotter : stars may be millions of degrees C. There are not many places in the Universe , in short , where the temperature is consistently between 0 and 100°C — let alone , between 0 and 45°C , which Earthly life forms prefer . |
| 14 | THERE ARE not many senior medical researchers in Britain who would list the political upheavals of Paris in 1968 among their formative experiences . |
| 15 | That is not to say that there are not many other ‘ innocent ’ causes for these two symptoms , but simply that urethritis , which is usually sexually transmitted , makes up the great majority of such cases . |
| 16 | Dividing the X -axis into three is in principle straightforward , but in practice there are snags , especially where there are not many data points . |
| 17 | These days there are not many of them around . |
| 18 | This way , though there are not many pixels making up the image , they are at least small . |
| 19 | There are not many athletes with whom I will warm-up , but Ben is one of them . |
| 20 | Some violence is , of course , sheer unadulterated sadism with an accompanying orgiastic delight in hurting and remember that we all have a sadistic capacity and there are not many people so out of touch with the darker , deeper aspects of their human nature that they have never indulged a sadistic fantasy . |
| 21 | And there are not many boys who would not want to be him , because A he is attractive , B he can write and act , C he can play the drums and D he is a wild boy and rebel . ’ |
| 22 | This is not to say that there are not many households where there is peace and contentment , when the old person is fortunate enough to keep well in mind and body even when she becomes frail , and where the daughter prefers to remain at home , and is able to make a satisfying life for herself . |
| 23 | Tory grandees ( there are not many of those left ) specialise in agriculture and foreign affairs , the latter being estate management on a larger scale , while the simpler Tory backbencher shouts ‘ hear , hear ’ at Prime Minister 's Questions and is rude about M Delors . |
| 24 | But there are not many people who are lucky enough to have the length of holiday enjoyed by MPs . |
| 25 | But provided there are not many plants of this species in the tank , then there is very little danger of its effects on the fish . |
| 26 | Why do not the Bishops of England and Wales sit down and ask themselves why there is a shortage of priests , why there are not many vocations , and why laity are lapsing in numbers , including many young people ? |
| 27 | This is not to say that there are not many people of good will who are working conscientiously for a more humane society , but such efforts inevitably succumb to the demonic . |
| 28 | One of the things that some knitters say is that there are not many Form Programs published . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps you 're right but there are not many who would shift the blame on to a brother 's shoulders . |
| 30 | The one useful generalisation about war in impoverished Africa is that it takes place where there are not many expensive weapons for soldiers to kill each other with , but where the conditions of organised life are so fragile that its disruption causes lots of civilians to die of famine and disease . |