Example sentences of "there be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has there been a request for a statement on that subject ? |
| 2 | While there has been some work on aspects of constitutions — particularly voting rules — only very recently has there been a return to the constitutional perspective associated with the classical constitutional theory associated with Montesquieu and Madison . |
| 3 | Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had . |
| 4 | Had n't there been a man 's voice : ‘ I am deliverance ’ ? |
| 5 | Never has there been a gas cooker with so many refinements , so many innovations , so much attention to detail as the new Moffat Discovery . |
| 6 | ( Has there been a craze for pogo sticks out there ? ) |
| 7 | The two things were entirely unconnected , but if it is of importance to you then you 'll be pleased to know that had there been a test you would have passed it with straight As . ’ |
| 8 | Only very recently has there been a development of more comprehensive concern for the disabled . |
| 9 | There was naturally much rejoicing in Britain that the worm was turning in 1989–90 , but there would have been more had there been a spinner or two in the team . |
| 10 | ‘ Had there been a visitation either by your lordship or by the Archdeacon since Mr Marr took up his appointment ? ’ |
| 11 | Not only has there been a reluctance on the part of directors to enforce such a remedy on behalf of the company by suing fellow directors , but its adoption in the context of insider dealing does very little to help the real victim . |
| 12 | Had there been a wedding before her birth ? |
| 13 | As I shall seek to show , the political culture remains predominantly an allegiant one , and the important question to be addressed is not " why has there been a decline in the civic culture ? " but rather " why has that decline not been greater ? " |
| 14 | I concluded that chapter by suggesting that the important question was not " why had there been a decline in the civic culture , " but rather " why had that decline not been greater ? " |
| 15 | Had n't there been a fiver ? |
| 16 | Why has there been a downturn in river water quality under the Government which has reversed the trend since the mid-1950s ? |
| 17 | Why had there been a bomb aboard their ship ? |
| 18 | Has there been a connection between the appearance of these outstanding pictures for auction and the possibility of government legislation to introduce listing of masterpieces to check their export from the U.K. ? |
| 19 | Had there been a version in each city , one might have fallen into Persian hands while another or others survived to be copied under the Empire . |
| 20 | However , had there been a shrine to this cult in the Cambridgeshire Fens on the edge of the Nene Valley one could consider a connection with pottery scenes . |
| 21 | Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now . |
| 22 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |
| 23 | Has there been a time when someone has helped you to see the world in a different way ? |
| 24 | Chilled and soaked , he was led past the reception desk and the hurried police activity ( had there been a murder here ? |
| 25 | ‘ Has — has there been a power failure ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Yet nowhere has there been a guide to their identification . ’ |
| 27 | The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake . |
| 28 | Has there been an incident of any kind ? |
| 29 | Answer guide : Broadly the criteria is : has there been an enhancement of the future benefits as a result of incurring the cost ? |
| 30 | Not since the hey-day of Bette Davis has there been an actress who 's attracted so much loathing — and so much admiration . |