Example sentences of "[adv] there are " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there are not enough players available to play on them ; perhaps there is no one to unlock them except at peak periods ; then there are courts taken out during the winter and one of the major reasons in this country is damage by vandals . |
| 2 | In the present Chapter I have written of movements in theory in the present tense , whereas what is ideally required is something grammatically subtler — perhaps there are languages where it exists — like a special tense in which the present extends back to include actions or events that are already in the recent past . |
| 3 | Perhaps there are others who have been overcharged by more than £40 for a meal . |
| 4 | Perhaps there are quite different forms of life . |
| 5 | But there can be , and perhaps there are , authorities which are so limited . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , perhaps there are modes of reflection which have become luxuries , ideas we dare not frame , we dare not permit ourselves — ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps there are also genes that have broken out of the sperm/egg ‘ proper channels ’ altogether and pioneered a sideways route . |
| 8 | Perhaps there are special brain cells which we possess that chimpanzees do not . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps there are some we have n't seen , ’ said Christine . |
| 10 | In dealing with compositions , it 's like meeting a person ; the person has certain characteristics , maybe he is kind , perhaps there are certain possibilities within him — unexplored potential — but he only functions within certain confinements . |
| 11 | Perhaps there are problems that you do n't know about |
| 12 | You show us some mines : perhaps there are others still due to explode . |
| 13 | Perhaps there are more advantages to membership than people imagine ! |
| 14 | Perhaps there are clues in the archetype of the Great Mother ; we must bear in mind , though , that we can not go back to some primitive image of the priestess , but must give it life and meaning in today 's terms . |
| 15 | Perhaps there are a few rope knots , I do n't know . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps there are so many new routes being done West Cumbria that the writers can not keep up ; or is it that other areas are more important to the committee ? |
| 17 | ( Perhaps there are analogies here with occupations which open up membership to women and subsequently decline in status and pay . ) |
| 18 | Perhaps there are some more like her in the warren . " |
| 19 | Perhaps there are Leicester citizens who will feel just a little sorry if the bird we all love to hate were ever banished ; no longer to amaze us with squabbling antics in the garden , purposeful flight lines at the end of day , noisy pre-roost assemblies — and starling spectaculars at dusk . |
| 20 | So just as , if I begin a sentence with ‘ The … ‘ , there are rules which limit what word can follow it ( I can not , for example , continue ‘ The an … ’ though I can continue ‘ The knight … ‘ ) , perhaps there are also rules which limit what kind of sentence can follow another . |
| 21 | I think perhaps there are a few more places where I can get some information but |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps there are trains passing . ’ |
| 23 | Or perhaps there are schemes for the disabled to rent computers at lower rates ? |
| 24 | Yes I suppose that perhaps there are two ways of approaching that question . |
| 25 | Perhaps there are no words or pigments capable of carrying meaning , and all our flourishes are a waste of time . |
| 26 | Red-brick universities , inner-city polytechnics and the Open University have dented that assumption ; but perhaps there are still features of the student experience which we should hold on to if higher education is to offer a cultural enlargement ? |
| 27 | The Right has prompted the Left to ponder that perhaps capitalism and democracy have come to the parting of ways ; perhaps there is more life in the democratic road to socialism than many have chosen to suppose ; and so perhaps there are things that need to be defended and advanced from within the British constitution itself . |
| 28 | Perhaps there are not two killers , and this has been done by our man to confuse us . |
| 29 | Perhaps there are links of which you are unaware . ’ |
| 30 | If social costs are really this small , perhaps there are more important things for the government to worry about in designing economic policy . |