Example sentences of "there [be] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is despite the fact that there are such programmes as Mastermind , a sheepdog series ( with which I happen to be involved — I declare my interest ) and superb epics by the Natural History Unit . |
| 2 | I know there are such things as odds and that they are seldom in my favour . |
| 3 | There are such things as oxyacetylene torches , you know . |
| 4 | Sitting on a rock , arguing over the remains of a goat , are three Ogres — if there are such things as especially stupid Ogres , it 's these three . |
| 5 | The world is discovered , not invented , and , just as a map should record the presence of dragons only if there are dragons , so science should deal in forces and causal laws only if there are such things . |
| 6 | But those who find these positions unattractive will have to look further if they want to say that there are such things as knowledge or justified belief . |
| 7 | For the oddities I have spoken of go to the newspapers and novels of the period , where there are such things . |
| 8 | ‘ There are such things as buses and trains , ’ she reminded him with a touch of sarcasm . |
| 9 | 6.2 We agree with Bolinger that there are such things as distinctively sense-qualifying adjectives ( although not many of them , and certainly only a small proportion of those that he suggests ) ; we shall take the view that these are restricted to prenominal attributive position , with predicative position reserved solely for referent-qualification . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid there are such things as wire cutters . ’ |
| 11 | It 's a recent manifestation that we are children , or there are such things as children . |
| 12 | There are such things as rent rebates , which is subsidised by the Government . |
| 13 | There are such things as double yellow lines and erm one could put in erm humps , I suppose , to calm traffic and so on and erm I think Phyllis always says ‘ well , we do the best for everybody in the community ’ . |
| 14 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 15 | This does not , of course , have any bearing upon whether or not there are such laws of social life to discover or imply that the survey method ought to be abandoned . |
| 16 | When I walk amongst them , one can not well help thinking he is in North American thickets , there are such quantities . |
| 17 | There are such cases — where a novel idea originated with the Committee 's Opinion and is then taken into the legislation , where a national judge or European Advocate-General cites a Committee report or where a member of the European Parliament says in evidence that he will prepare an amendment to respond to a concern expressed by a sub-committee and then does so . |
| 18 | There are such genes and they are called segregation distorters . |
| 19 | Ryle seems to imply that there are such criteria , but he does not say what they are . |
| 20 | But while he indicates that there are such criteria for distinguishing between dominant and subordinate instances , Althusser pays far more attention to the relation between the dominant instance and economic practice , which itself constitutes a second sort of criterion for identifying the dominant instance . |
| 21 | To what extent are there limits to the growth of public expenditure in a mixed economy , and therefore what impact may such limits ( or the belief that there are such limits ) have upon social policy expenditure ? |
| 22 | This is part of a polemic ( reluctant , because in other contexts and on other grounds Sisson venerates Pound ) against Ezra Pound 's treatment of Virgil : ‘ … there are such absurdities in Pound as the assertion that Gavin Douglas 's excellent Aeneidos is ‘ better than the original ’ , together with other devaluings of Virgil' . |
| 23 | There are such plains , but the typical profile of the seabed is one that contains gigantic mountain ranges , innumerable equally huge volcanoes , and gorges of a depth never dreamed of furrowing the deep-sea floor . |
| 24 | There are such theories ; more on them below . |
| 25 | There are such men in this city , and even to see them , never mind to touch them or have them kiss you , or see them just before dawn , or to have them as one of your dear friends , is one of the great pleasures of our life , and it is commoner than most people think . |
| 26 | This leads us to assume that there are such causes for behaviour and we then seek to know the reasons for this . |
| 27 | But whatever definition one accepts , let us agree that there are such categories , and for the purpose of this work I shall define productive labour as being : labour which is exchanged with capital and produces a surplus-value , a surplus-value moreover which is embodied in material commodities , the form of which is capable of being used as capital for the reproduction and extension of capital . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course there are such hospitals , and the twins are under the supervision of a clinic right now , but I believe they need extraordinary help . ’ |
| 29 | His own horror of self-revelation has led to the assumption that there are such revelations to be made . |
| 30 | I am sceptical but , if there are such universals they are of a much more abstract structural kind . |