Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be several " in BNC.

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1 But I 'm glad to know there are several families living near , because it gives one more scope , does n't it ? ’
2 I 'm sure you 've noticed there are several branching off on either side .
3 But , before that can happen there are several questions that need answering about the future of firms which have gone into IVAs .
4 There 've already been several tailbacks — the longest stretched for 8 miles .
5 Although still in its infancy , there have already been several approaches to case-mix accounting .
6 The welfare state in Britain has always been pluralistic in that there have always been several sources of welfare provision .
7 There have also been several periods of panic buying triggered by rumours of taxation or currency reforms .
8 There have also been several innovations in the design of styling wands and hot brushes .
9 There have also been several representations from those sitting on my left hand side , about the possible answers to question one D in the affirmative .
10 There have now been several reports that have pointed to the fact that even in industries where there is a commitment to high safety standards , there is evidence that something is going wrong in the implementation and organisation .
11 That seems to be not too difficult a task — although you will find there are several important differences between New Zealand and UK practices .
12 ‘ Sexuality ’ has in many ways been most resistant to this challenge , precisely because its power seems to derive from our biological being , but there have recently been several sustained challenges to sexual essentialism , from quite different theoretical approaches : the interactionist ( associated particularly with the work of Gagnon and Simon , and in Britain Kenneth Plummer ) ; the psychoanalytic ( associated with the reinterpretation of Freud initiated by Jacques Lacan , and taken up by feminist writers such as Juliet Mitchell ) ; and the discursive , taking as its starting point the work of Michel Foucault .
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