Example sentences of "there [be] [verb] [prep] be [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | anywhere near as if you were prepared , because if you were prepared there are bound to be one or two things that you would want to ask for , own by the standard of interpretation of whatever it is , or a particular word if it 's a language and so on , erm and that is something that er I think people erm come across as |
| 2 | There are said to be two reasons for referring the valuation of a company 's shares to its auditors . |
| 3 | There are said to be three preconditions of a common-law system based upon judicial precedent : |
| 4 | There are going to be one or two occasions of course when it is likely |
| 5 | If there are going to be two desks we need one member of staff on each desk . |
| 6 | And you see now what the Government have said that they are going to accept that there are going to be two key authorities in some counties . |
| 7 | Now , sit down , pen down please , you want to listen , now to do this , no fidgeting pens should be down and you should be concentrating there are going to be three pieces of writing done by people your age and a bit older , that you are going to listen to . |
| 8 | ‘ Soon there are going to be thousands and thousands of new houses . |
| 9 | In fact , there are thought to be three million people who suffer from it . |
| 10 | However , Samsung is beginning to ramp up its i860 effort , there are thought to be 12 of its MagicStation workstations with ISVs in Germany , six in the UK . |
| 11 | Well there are gon na be six somethings |
| 12 | In West Germany , for instance , there are predicted to be 15 per cent fewer people when the population finally stabilises . |
| 13 | But in the first 10 months of 1989 alone over 7,000 have arrived , and there are expected to be 10,000 by the end of the year . |
| 14 | There 're going to be ten of you . |
| 15 | She was n't sure whether there were any artists or writers in town at the moment , but there were bound to be one or two back in the city after the Christmas recess . |
| 16 | In the time of Henry VIII there were reckoned to be fifteen lords for each million of the population . |
| 17 | His right to the throne was distinctly tenuous ; there were said to be 57 people , if Roman Catholics were included , with a better claim . |
| 18 | So there were going to be four months of hard training and probably a lot of violence . |
| 19 | Three right so perhaps someone had divided this pizza up and all the extra people kept coming in and your mum was saying , Oh no I thought there were going to be three and now there 's six of us . |
| 20 | How were we to know there were gon na be two Hilton Hotels in Leeds ? |
| 21 | There were known to be four coastal guns , mounted with anti-aircraft batteries , on Maaloy to defend the Ulvesund anchorage where convoys sheltered in bad weather or gathered before crossing more open waters not protected by outer islands . |
| 22 | By 1914 there were known to be 114 of them . |
| 23 | In 1986 there were estimated to be 1.6 million children living in one parent families — one in eight of all dependent children . |
| 24 | There were estimated to be 250,000 tonnes of carcinogenic PCBs in Europe . |
| 25 | There were estimated to be 260 in Brighthelmstone ( Brighton ) , 173 in Lewes and 300 in Rye , held together by their own sense of righteousness . |
| 26 | ( There were thought to be 2,600 West Africans , mostly Nigerians , in territory held by the NPFL ; attacks on Ghanaians and Nigerians were reported at the beginning of September , and Taylor , who was reported to be holding a large number of foreigners hostage , declared war on the ECOMOG force early in September . ) |
| 27 | ‘ There 's bound to be one rotten apple in every barrel . ’ |
| 28 | cos you know roughly what close are about and you know how to close , but that , let's imagine for the sake of the discussion , that there 's a hundred different ways of closing , right , and if there 's a hundred different ways of close closing there 's bound to be thousands of variations on each close , you see what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 29 | I think there 's gon na be six this time . |
| 30 | Well it just means people , if there 's gon na be three people |