Example sentences of "[noun] there be [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder there were pile-ups on the autobahn . |
| 2 | T. D. There were men on the opposite beat and sometimes you could spend a little time talking to them as long as you were n't caught . |
| 3 | From mid-October and into early November there were disturbances on the university campus in Oujda , and less seriously in Fez , Meknes and Kenitra , as Islamic fundamentalist students clashed with secularist opponents , in some cases supporters of the National Union of Moroccan students ( UNEM ) . |
| 4 | What was intriguing was that after the gentleman in question had filled in his first , second and third name there was room on the form , if he felt so inclined , to tell us the ‘ forename or nickname by which you are popularly known ’ . |
| 5 | Current affairs were well covered , but in addition there were lectures on the stock market , the big banks , the ramifications of the big monopolistic groups of companies , the export and import trade . |
| 6 | In the afternoon there were sports on the playing fields for the children , a children 's fancy dress competition , welly-throwing greasy pole , side-stalls and a tombola . |
| 7 | Of course there are cards on the market with more memory and processor power to drive expensive monitors at high resolutions ( like 1280 by 1024 ) and 256 colours but they cost well over £1000 . |
| 8 | Only two or three a day and they came dead slow round the bend in case there were sheep on the track . |
| 9 | There is a weekly programme of live music , dancing , guided walks , and occasionally on Sunday mornings there is music on the terrace . |
| 10 | At one time there were houseboats on the canal , there are now holiday caravans on the canal bank and the canal is no longer used for transport . |