Example sentences of "there [be] [verb] [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are believed to be anywhere between 50,000 and 100,000 migrant labourers from the Philippines , Indonesia and Thailand working illegally in Taiwan and helping to keep down wage levels . |
| 2 | There are believed to be around 100,000 contaminated sites in the UK , many the legacy of mining , gas or chemical works , although Denner acknowledged that the full scale of the problem was not known . |
| 3 | A self certification programme for Wabi vendors starts in June — though there are said to be only a dozen Windows applications up on it and the thing still does n't print — Wabi 1.0 will be out in the summer . |
| 4 | At the peak of the breeding season there are said to be perhaps a quarter of a million sooty terns nesting on Aride , but now in October there were only a few hundred . |
| 5 | There are reckoned to be about 2,000 UK publishers who bring out at least one book during any given six month period . |
| 6 | Where there are very many known alternatives , or there are known to be currently unimaginable possibilities , the ability of people to make detailed plans for the future is limited , given bounded rationality . |
| 7 | This has prompted some commentators to ask whether there are going to be enough properly qualified independent directors . |
| 8 | There are going to be quite a few discharges but I mean it was you know |
| 9 | What , in the longer run , should be done about this rule , in a world where there are going to be more separated and divorced couples , and more lone parents ? |
| 10 | In fact radio is alive , kicking and expanding , and there are thousands of hours of radio going out , locally particularly , and every indication there are going to be more and more community radio stations in the future , and this is hungry time for material , so lots of opportunities in that particular way , at this stage . |
| 11 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 12 | There are thought to be less than 200 pairs of Barn Owls in the Thames and Chiltern area with 45 in Oxfordshire , 35 in Gloucestershire , 38 in Berkshire and 19 in Buckinghamshire . |
| 13 | Nobody has counted science teachers for many years but there are thought to be about 30 000 , so 6000 more could be needed . |
| 14 | There are thought to be about three times as many species of insect as of all other kinds of animal put together . |
| 15 | In Miami alone there are reported to be more than fifty botanicas — shops selling all the necessities of the cult — and there are also pet-shops specializing in the doves , chickens and peacocks which devotees require for the rituals . |
| 16 | There are estimated to be about 6,000 Shar Peis in the world now . |
| 17 | Discovered in 1855 , there are estimated to be only 1,000 specimens left in the wild . |
| 18 | that there are gon na be so many thousands of people in a right mess and they 're |
| 19 | Letters are not themselves sounds : they represent the sounds of the spoken language , of which there are considered to be about 44 in standard English . |
| 20 | All would be well , she said , because there were going to be so many doctors around . |
| 21 | We 're also gon na look at where they live , remember what they 're income is etcetera and the important thing is because of these increases here and because of the recession in general , it dictated to us that there were gon na be more one and two person households . |
| 22 | It was more a trickle than a flood , for peaceful homesteads could be successfully built only where there was relative security , and where there were known to be agriculturally suitable regions . |
| 23 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 24 | At the end of December 1990 there were estimated to be more than 92,000 neighbourhood watch schemes in England and Wales , covering nearly 5 million households . |
| 25 | Before the present conflict there were thought to be as many as 4,000 elephants in Sri Lanka , though 3,000 is a more likely total . |
| 26 | In Tambov town there were reported to be as few as three Bolsheviks on the very eve of the October Revolution . |
| 27 | There 's bound to be something of , alright if I say there 's bound to be perhaps this year there wo n't but |
| 28 | well I think erm , the short answer is that I ca n't erm , erm provide the parties with any time on Friday , er , the case , this case has already some what over run it 's estimate , which has put pressure on the commercial judge as it is , there 's gon na be even more pressure on Friday , erm , I 'm afraid to say the , that the complexities of this case as such that I can not erm begin to think that even if we started at ten we would erm , necessarily finish within the hour , I have difficulties starting at ten o'clock anyway , I think we 'll simply have to erm , put the matter off , off until Monday morning I , Mr ca n't attend I really do n't think that I can erm put it off er any longer than that |
| 29 | But it may well be as Mr suggested that er there 's l there 's gon na be very little difficulty there . |
| 30 | I think there 's gon na be more and more . |