Example sentences of "there be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Some of the loudest voices there are not in the best tradition .
2 There are up to 250,000 sufferers in Britain today — about 20,000 of them in hospital at any one time .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 There are up to 360 incinerators working abroad and Britain also has a few systems .
6 There are up to eight parallel veins on either side of the midrib and a mass of cross veins connecting them .
7 There are up to twenty-nine teeth in the upper jaw and twenty-five or twenty-six in the lower .
8 There are up to four million quality control circle participants in Japanese industry and in large companies two in five workers are members .
9 Because there are up to seven outstanding maturities at any one time , the total number of observations was over 2000 .
10 There are up to 3 flat pointed apical papillae flanked on each side by 4–5 flattened , pointed oral papillae .
11 There are up to 10 short only slightly rugose arm spines .
12 There are up to 3 broad pointed apical papilla flanked on either side by 3 broad flap-like oral papillae .
13 There are up to 8 rugose arm spines which are invested with thickened skin .
14 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 .
15 There are up to 8 straight pointed arm spines .
16 Winter is perhaps most exciting , when there are up to 50 whooper swans from Iceland resident on the floods and meadows .
17 The Master Level Index is the main entry point to the entire system , below which there are up to three levels of functional refinement .
18 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 . ) .
19 There are now only 3,000 breeding pairs in the wild , but there are up to 30,000 in captivity .
20 There are up to a thousand differs of keys bought with these types of locks .
21 It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood .
22 There are not yet any documented cases of this happening with E , but there are plenty with acid .
23 Saying this does not mean that the parties were monolithic ; there were differences of opinion between moderate and extreme wings then as there are today with our major parties .
24 Another difficulty with the tariff is the fact that there are probably at least as many different tariffs in practice as there are levels of court ( Court of Appeal , Crown Court and magistrates ' court ) .
25 There are probably at least 10 20 ; ( i.e. 100 billion billion ) roughly suitable planets in the universe .
26 However , it is perhaps important to point out that there are presumably at least two distinct stages in planning what to say next .
27 Yeah but would they , what I mean is that there are even for the parents
28 There are also to be three subgroups of monitoring committees which will ensure adherence to contracts .
29 There are also to be 100 time-ownership properties and an 18-hole golf course .
30 There are also to be joint degree courses , joint research and exchange of staff for the 4,000-student college .
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