Example sentences of "there is a [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the road seems to go away from it , sometimes we can not see where it is going , even if there is a purpose to it . |
| 2 | If you are passing slightly to one side of the DF facility , and there is a response to your transmission on the operator 's screen , the " blip " would be changing position . |
| 3 | ‘ No doubt there is a logic to it . |
| 4 | And the other thing about visual things , let's , let's say there is a reference to somebody having piles , but they make it a visual gag |
| 5 | There is a tablet to his memory in Leeds town hall which was unveiled in 1924 . |
| 6 | Which is precisely the point : if there is a politics to what has become known as poststructuralism , then it is articulated in this passage which unnervingly weaves capitalist economic exploitation , racism , colonialism , sexism , together with , perhaps unexpectedly , ‘ History ’ and the structure of the Hegelian dialectic . |
| 7 | We know that there is a limit to what Britain can achieve alone and we are committed to building in the wider world the sort of society we strive for at home , founded on mutual cooperation , political liberty and shared prosperity . |
| 8 | The annual models provide good publicity at the Motor Show , but surely there is a limit to what can be done to a car that has to be instantly recognisable by its shape ? |
| 9 | There is a limit to what a force of some 900 inspectors in the field ( 700 general inspectors and 200 specialists ) can do in practice . |
| 10 | As long as we accept that there is a limit to what can be done and that in no way 's detracted from fire station . |
| 11 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 12 | There is a limit to which the non-standardised interview can be used with larger samples . |
| 13 | But there is a limit to which governments at any level wish to , or can , commit policies to paper . |
| 14 | Whilst the first alternative can be effective to some extent , there is a limit to which expenditure of this kind can be reduced . |
| 15 | ‘ There is a limit to everything . |
| 16 | The reason why I think that there is a limit to our rational understanding of what is great art is quite simple : I believe in the fundamentally biological foundation of our reactions . |
| 17 | A person will only be an arbitrator or quasi-arbitrator if there is a submission to him either of a specific dispute or of present points of difference or of defined differences that may in future arise and if there is agreement that his decision will be binding . |
| 18 | It makes it a criminal offence to make a demand for payment without reasonable cause to believe there is a right to it . |
| 19 | There is a fitness to everything at Templeton , an order and a purpose , from the disposition of the crops and bridles in the tack room ( on a fine day Mrs Guest rises at 6.30 am to ride her horse , Opium , for an hour ) and the ranks of Maxwell riding boots in their bright felt CZG monogrammed pockets , to the vegetable gardens with their improbably neat and weedless battalions of vegetables , the closets with legions of colour-spectrum cashmeres and the table-top still lifes with flotillas of eighteenth-century snuff boxes . |
| 20 | Look at the police budget , and we shall be discussing the police budget later on , you had a windfall , underspend on police pensions , but we all know those police will retire at some time or other , and when they do there is a commitment to their lump sum payments and their pensions . |
| 21 | However , if there is no free charge in the space between the conductors , and strictly for two-dimensional problems , there is a method to which the adjective " general " might be attached , a method that provides plenty of answers but not necessarily to the questions asked . |
| 22 | There is a pattern to my occasional engagements away from home . |
| 23 | Shall we have a look at the catalogue to see if there is a pattern to your liking ? |
| 24 | However , for all the splendours of the Monument Valley scenery and Fonda 's tight-lipped moral integrity , there is a downside to his crusade , which is only won at the cost of the lives of two of his brothers and involves the death of Doc Holliday ( Victor Mature ) , a noble outlaw who gets washed away by bullets and consumption along with the bad elements . |
| 25 | However there is a solution to your question about how to deactivate the rogue 1-2-3 . |
| 26 | It does not amount to an argument that staff should be conducting research as such ; merely that if they are engaged in it , there is an advantage to it being undertaken with an eye to their teaching commitments . |
| 27 | But ca n't you see that there is an obverse to everything ? |