Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] there [am/are] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nesting box must be positioned in an area that has no existing barn owl settlement , after checking that there are enough small mammals to feed an expanding population . |
| 2 | Prevalence rates for severe mental handicap are , however , considerably lower than this , perhaps four per 1000 , and given the more limited life expectancy in more severe cases , the most frequently quoted rate for severe mental handicap is 3.2 per 1000 suggesting that there are around 160,000 severely mentally handicapped people in the country . |
| 3 | Considering that there are only ten full time members of staff on site , wonders have been worked on a number of the aeronautical exhibits . |
| 4 | Now I offer that as a little illustration of the difficulties of saying that there are deep national dispositions between one nation and another , which exist inside in some sort of permanent , rock-like way . |
| 5 | The scope of the present debate will now be expanded by examining whether there are more substantial grounds than those so far considered for regarding companies as ‘ private ’ bodies . |
| 6 | Lonsdale accepts that the material defies easy summary and generalization [ ECWP , p. xxii ] but proceeds to survey the actual work of women poets through the century , recognizing that there are always some poets who stand outside general trends . |
| 7 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |
| 8 | In this respect my position will amount to thinking that there are intrinsically prescriptive features to reality , but this will not be done by blurring the distinction between judgements about how the world is characterised and the ways in which we respond to it , as with McDowell . |