Example sentences of "there be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are up to 250,000 sufferers in Britain today — about 20,000 of them in hospital at any one time . |
| 2 | There are up to 400 000 birds present at a time : mostly greylag geese , wigeon , and coot , which spend the winter from November to February , and others which pass through en route to South Africa . |
| 3 | The vast majority of these incomplete schools are in rural areas where classes are also large — the teachers ' union COLPROSUMAH claims that in some rural schools there are up to 120 children in a classroom . |
| 4 | There are up to 360 incinerators working abroad and Britain also has a few systems . |
| 5 | There are up to eight parallel veins on either side of the midrib and a mass of cross veins connecting them . |
| 6 | There are up to twenty-nine teeth in the upper jaw and twenty-five or twenty-six in the lower . |
| 7 | There are up to four million quality control circle participants in Japanese industry and in large companies two in five workers are members . |
| 8 | Because there are up to seven outstanding maturities at any one time , the total number of observations was over 2000 . |
| 9 | There are up to 3 flat pointed apical papillae flanked on each side by 4–5 flattened , pointed oral papillae . |
| 10 | There are up to 10 short only slightly rugose arm spines . |
| 11 | There are up to 3 broad pointed apical papilla flanked on either side by 3 broad flap-like oral papillae . |
| 12 | There are up to 8 rugose arm spines which are invested with thickened skin . |
| 13 | There are up to three rounded blunt apical papillae flanked on either side by 6–7 oral papillae , the proximal ones are blunt but the distal ones are more spine-like . |
| 14 | There are up to 8 straight pointed arm spines . |
| 15 | Winter is perhaps most exciting , when there are up to 50 whooper swans from Iceland resident on the floods and meadows . |
| 16 | The Master Level Index is the main entry point to the entire system , below which there are up to three levels of functional refinement . |
| 17 | Further , in some Australian languages there are up to four distinct sets of primary ( as opposed to special supplementary ) kin terms : ( a ) a set of vocative terms , ( b ) a set of terms which have an implicit first person possessive feature ( i.e mean " my mother 's brother " , etc. ) , ( c ) a set of terms which have a second person possessive feature ( i.e. mean " your mother 's brother " , etc. ) and ( d ) a set of terms which have third person possessive features ( i.e. mean " his or her mother 's brother " , etc . ) . |
| 18 | There are now only 3,000 breeding pairs in the wild , but there are up to 30,000 in captivity . |
| 19 | There are up to a thousand differs of keys bought with these types of locks . |
| 20 | There are also to be three subgroups of monitoring committees which will ensure adherence to contracts . |
| 21 | There are also to be 100 time-ownership properties and an 18-hole golf course . |
| 22 | There are also to be joint degree courses , joint research and exchange of staff for the 4,000-student college . |
| 23 | And so there are still to be found Latinists who think that the hilarious mistranslations in his Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) were inadvertent rather than mischievously deliberate . |
| 24 | However , there are still to be found undertones of catastrophism in many Marxist writings , even though the authors would reject any explicit adherence to such ideas . |
| 25 | A spokesman for the Banking Industry has denied that there are about to be any job losses and it is hoped that that statement is correct . |
| 26 | Mr Hooker estimates that 12 years ago , when he paid £1.50 for his first grip , there were up to 100 collectors of whom he knew a couple of dozen . |
| 27 | As there were up to sixteen different taxes , the more ignorant , who were usually also the poorest , were compelled to run to their more fortunate fellows for advice on how to calculate , time , and pay ( or avoid paying ) these complex dues . |
| 28 | Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom . |
| 29 | Then , on Friday 29 October , inshore fishermen reported that there were up to 100 whales dead and alive , in the vicinity of Clay Hole ( see map ) . |
| 30 | At other times in action there were up to 630 men in a Commando . |