Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] [prep] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are on average 47 days of air frost a year at Stornoway , 33 in Benbecula , and an estimated 20 in Barra . |
| 2 | For example , if after every 3 phonemes there are on average seven hypotheses of equal probability , the number of paths will exceed 5 million in an utterance of 27 phonemes . |
| 3 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 4 | Are there any sectors where there are for example triple S Is which are of er how shall I put it , strategic scale , that could influence er the location of a new settlement . |
| 5 | There are of course great differences between the methods and procedures followed in dealing with public and private Bills , and there may be some differences in the methods of construing their provisions . |
| 6 | There are of course substantial variations in dietary habits from country to country , and from family to family . |
| 7 | There are of course still mysteries about dreaming , and for some of them , perhaps , the technology of the dream laboratory on its own will never provide a solution . |
| 8 | There are of course other groups of Asian immigrants , Punjabis from East Africa , urban immigrants from towns like Delhi and so on . |
| 9 | There are of course other reasons for each one , so it is impossible to say exactly how much you can do yourself for any of the conditions mentioned . |
| 10 | There are of course other collections too numerous to mention , covering topics as diverse as witchcraft and mountaineering , baking and Ossianic literature . |
| 11 | There are of course other voices . |
| 12 | There are of course other mechanisms for replacing mosquito populations which depend on the hybrid resulting from the mating between released insect and the natural ( wild ) one being sterile or partially so . |
| 13 | There are of course other broader-than-standard gauges , some still in use today , for example in Russia , Ireland , Spain , Portugal , India , Australia and South America . |
| 14 | Although having said that , there w there are of course other people who are probably quite very happy in their flat . |
| 15 | There are of course many cases where there is a necessary either/or in that if something is inherently contradictory , then choice has to be made . |
| 16 | There are of course many questions which have not been addressed about such experiences . |
| 17 | There are of course many approaches and variants on approaches to the Gettier problem which I have not discussed , including Shope 's own . |
| 18 | There are of course many incest taboos , that is to say , prohibitions on sexual relations between persons of various degrees of familial relation , and some of these are hardly even candidates for biological explanation . |
| 19 | For instance , one could have a form in which special interludes have a natural place such as : There are of course many variants of such schemes , suitable for use in single-movement works of 20-minute duration down to short movements of only a few minutes . |
| 20 | So far as I know , however , there have not been any comprehensive studies of the rise and fall of various economic groups in more recent times , nor has there been an attempt to provide , on a broad scale , an economic interpretation of political events in the twentieth century , although there are of course many elements of such an interpretation in recent Marxist debates about modes of production , in the analyses of development and underdevelopment , and in the theories of industrial and post-industrial societies . |
| 21 | There are of course many aspects of language usage that depend on these relations ( see e.g. Brown & Levinson , 1978 , 1979 ) , but these usages are only relevant to the topic of social deixis in so far as they are grammaticalized Obvious examples of such grammaticalizations are " polite " pronouns and titles of address , but there are many other manifestations of social deixis ( see Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 183-92 , 281-5 ; Levinson , 1977 , 1979b ) . |
| 22 | Only ‘ cause looking at your first question : do you use public transport or do you promote it — there are of course all sorts of arguments sort of for and against that sort of scheme that people have to use their cars . |
| 23 | There are of course all kinds of truths that are not of this sort ; but they lie on a lower level altogether . |
| 24 | There are of course endless problems for the analyst who wishes to use the concept of the collective consciousness but it does at least involve an attempt to locate the basis of meaning in a social context . |
| 25 | There are of course formidable difficulties to be overcome . |
| 26 | There are of course important differences between London and Boston . |
| 27 | There are of course important differences between rabbit retina and visual cortex . |
| 28 | There are of course further details of the General Accident , System Three poll in tomorrow 's Herald newspaper . |
| 29 | There are of course parliamentary questions , although individual members of the Bundestag may only ask Kleine Anfrage ( small questions ) : a quorum of 26 is need to ask a Grosse Anfrage ( major question ) and these require a fuller reply . |
| 30 | There are of course interesting possibilities here , for instance the following propositions : |