Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [subord] there [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no limit to the number of children in a family who may hold an Assisted Place and parental contributions are reduced when there is more than one holder in a family . |
| 2 | Eighteen miles today , and tomorrow , the worst leg of all , twenty-six miles to Cambridge that ca n't be broken because there is nowhere to stop overnight . |
| 3 | Even the school swimming could be drained because there 's not enough money to heat it . |
| 4 | For example , separate decisions need to be taken in relation to : ( 1 ) VAT registrationwhere , if the partners of the new office are not to be the same as those carrying on business at headquarters , separate registration will be required ; ( 2 ) preparation of accountswhere if separate accounts for each office are kept , with separate accounting dates ( which is a matter to be settled between the partners and the firm 's accountants and involves no breach of professional conduct whichever decision may be taken ) , accountants ' reports will have to be produced in respect of each office ; ( 3 ) identity of the partnerswhether the new office should be run as a separate partnership or as a branch office ; ( 4 ) investment business certificatesseparate certificates will be needed if there is not an identity of partners at all a firm 's offices . |
| 5 | The society wants development proposals , such as the building of 10,000 new houses in west Swindon close to drought-stricken rivers , to be refused if there is too little water available . |
| 6 | It is not a strenuous walk , nor is it a walk to be hurried as there is so much to see . |
| 7 | For example , why is it that personnel appointments take so long to be announced when there is often no adequate reason for the delay ? |
| 8 | During the early stages of the design , the functional arrangements of a mechanism train have to be explored whilst there is very little physical " flesh " to analyse . |
| 9 | The way any scientific field develops , however , is through organizing observations around such general principles , and these are retained unless there is very good reason to abandon them . |
| 10 | Alright , and perhaps the reason why people are migrating when there is very high unemployment is because they do n't realize that there is such high unemployment . |
| 11 | The name documentation is deceiving as there is very little paperwork and the department 's tools are computers and the software packages MINISIS and QUIXIS . |
| 12 | The inevitable conclusion which will be jumped to is that he is going because there is about to be some momentous U-turn over Maastricht now that Britain 's presidency of the EC is over . |
| 13 | Bridge-building is empty because it never happens , God-killing and god-making suicide is baffled because there is only a corpse to point at , there is nobody to attach a fulfilled ‘ free intention ’ to . |