Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [v-ing] [conj] [ex0] [be] " in BNC.

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1 That confidence is lacking and there is nothing — except Sir John Wheeler 's unwise comment about the IRA 's defeat — to suggest that it can be restored .
2 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 .
3 World trade is fallin' an' there 's a lot of unemployment about .
4 It seems the supplier is saying that there is n't a fault at all , leaving the onus on you to establish that there is .
5 Concern is growing that there is no-one in sight to take over Novell should Noorda become incapacitated .
6 By saying " the postgraduate study " , the writer is implying that there is a familiar group of types of study — the undergraduate study , the postdoctoral study , etc. , rather like the classification of decades or social classes .
7 The cost is rising because there is no blending .
8 But Devenish is discovering that there is as much profit on a plate as in a pint .
9 In words aimed at the US president , Bill Clinton , he said : ‘ The Balkanisation of the region is coming if there is to be no peaceful settlement .
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