Example sentences of "[v-ing] there be a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're so twisted with suspicion that you ca n't see a hand in front of your face without imagining there 's a dagger in it ! |
| 2 | And even though these events could be elevating there 's a chance of some accompanying stress . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm coming — I 'm coming ! ’ she shouted back , wishing there were a key to the door as she quickly applied some light make-up . |
| 4 | Our capital programme for new railways , better roads and other infrastructures has slowed down noticeably , and although new schools and hospitals are being built , generally speaking there is a run-down in the state of these facilities . |
| 5 | For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense . |
| 6 | And that was pretty , it was , it 'd vary in , in some cases but in som it was worse than that and some were better than that , but generally speaking there were a lot of unemployment . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're not suggesting there 's a connection with it and this cross Adolph told you about . |
| 8 | It also erm quite wrongly fuels justification for a new settlement proposal , because as they 're saying there 's a shortfall in allocations . |
| 9 | you know , she was saying there 's a girl at work and she 's a top qualified chef |
| 10 | The controversy has thrown up confusion , with one doctor saying there IS a ban on smokers , and a hospital cardiac unit insisting there IS N'T . |
| 11 | If you like to think that we started discuss discuss this discussion by saying there was a demand after the war , you can see now that we met it in , over and over again cos these machines were all over America . |
| 12 | On the edge of the pool , knowing there was a possibility of Kelvin sponsoring Drew , Sukey was chatting up Enid Coley . |
| 13 | I 'm confident enough in my ability as a mother to know my daughter had never been pressurised by knowing there was a part of my life that was illegal . |
| 14 | He returned a few days later to meet the proprietors and Bernard , recognizing there was a limit to their own international expansion at this stage , and ever keen to find outlets for the masses of cloth being printed , immediately proposed to Trevaskis that they worked together , not in competition . |
| 15 | Assuming there is a transfer of value and consequently a reduction in the value of the estate of Mr X which does not arise from the disposal of excluded property , and further assuming that the transfer is not an exempt transfer , one is left with a chargeable transfer on which inheritance tax is payable starting at nil per cent ( the nil rate band ) and 40 per cent . |
| 16 | The road from Silchester to Durobrivae and includes Dorchester-on-Thames , Alchester , Towcester and Irchester , assuming there is a gap in the road yet to be filled between the last two places . |
| 17 | Despite the discomfort of frequent finger pricking there is a degree of fascination associated with blood letting , and research suggests that most patients prefer blood testing to urine testing . |
| 18 | In the seconnd half Swindon stepped up the pressure and then a controversial penalty with Mitchell chasing there 's a mix-up in the box and in the melee , the referee blows up for a penalty saying Southend number 3 had held back Mitchell . |
| 19 | Even before Heseltine announced he was standing there were a number of press smears about some of his closest aides , the worst example being a report in The Sun on 13 November headlined ‘ The Adulterer , The Bungler and The Joker ’ , which Mrs Thatcher was forced publicly to disavow . |
| 20 | You putting There 's a list down Sue , on the boards for , on the classroom |
| 21 | Feeling there was a gap in the market between what was good advice on skin care and what the public was being given , she interviewed leading New York dermatologists and wrote a very honest feature entitled ‘ Can a Great Skin be Created ? ’ |
| 22 | There is a range of 12 sizes , meaning there 's a suit to accurately fit almost everyone . |