Example sentences of "then there [is] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is no one to talk it through with , then there is the real risk of hopeless adventure . |
| 2 | Then there is the substantial influence exerted by the USA which frequently wishes to persuade the rest of the world that the American way is best . |
| 3 | Then there is the baptismal entry at St John 's on Christmas Day 1773 : ‘ Sarah Titford , daughter of Ann ’ . |
| 4 | Then there is the absurd lack of ability to receive calls . |
| 5 | There are three main natural regions in Switzerland , the Jura in the north with an average altitude of 750 metres and a swathe of coniferous forest ; the Swiss Plateau which averages 580 metres , holds most of the Swiss population and its cities and extends from Switzerland 's largest lake , Geneva , to Lake Constance in the East ; then there is the Swiss Alps which cover 60% of the country 's land area , have an average altitude of 1,700 metres with more than 100 summits topping the 4,000 metre mark . |
| 6 | Then there is the annual conference to which members are welcome . |
| 7 | Then there is the leather-strap type of muzzle . |
| 8 | Then there is the political aspect . |
| 9 | Then there is the general atmosphere from the ground up to , say , a hundred thousand feet . |
| 10 | Then there is the great R K Narayan 's The Grandmother 's Tale , a collection of three novellas . |
| 11 | Then there is the second ball … |
| 12 | Then there is the increasing problem of Spanish students who feel they know some English and decide to teach it . |
| 13 | Then there is the living lie of ‘ college sports ’ . |
| 14 | Then there is the alleged deterioration in local authority services ; again , the facts are different . |
| 15 | Then there is the tricky question of forward market operations . |
| 16 | Then there is the Japanese interpretation of the law . |
| 17 | And also , as he watched the boxer on the television , Boy began to think that there are two kinds of sex : the kind of sex where you say do this , do that , or you manoeuvre yourself into position for a particular kind of pleasure ; and then there is the other kind of sex , where you want not someone else 's body that had done those things the night before or the afternoon before . |
| 18 | Then there is the other dimension , whether the aim is to explain or to understand . |
| 19 | Then there is the other side of the coin . |
| 20 | Then there is the 9½-minute chamber opera , A Hand of Bridge , to a libretto by Menotti . |
| 21 | And then there is the international novel , which is particularly easy to translate because it is set in a generalised Nowhere and has no idiosyncratic language to disturb its translators . |
| 22 | That is , they are not of the form exemplified at the end of the last section when it was said that if cc was a causal circumstance for e , then there is the true generalization that all circumstances of the type of cc , even if certain other events or conditions occur , are followed by events of the same type as e . |
| 23 | Then there is the slack legislation passed by parliamentarians far removed from the sharp end of society and the liberal-minded intellectuals living in ‘ Cloud-cuckoo-land ’ where tolerance for the assailant takes precedence over the suffering of the victim . |
| 24 | Then there is the cute puppy syndrome . |
| 25 | Then there is the cumulative effect of accidents , small and large . |
| 26 | Then there is the massive power generator which can weight 20 tons or more . |
| 27 | Then there is the post-Nürburgring view of Niki which apotheosized him : the way the press and the media treated him , you would have thought Richard Wagner was about to consider fitting him into Valhalla and Charlton Heston play him as El Cid . |
| 28 | Then there is the maddening fact that , of the five great investigative Ws ( who ? what ? where ? when ? and why ? ) , we can still only account for the first four in the matter of the Watergate break-in . |
| 29 | Then there is the constant attention given to the more vociferous organs of populist opinion , in particular the tabloid and middle market press . |
| 30 | Then there is the wonderful world of electronic mail , by which this column will pop up in the North Bridge computer within the next few minutes . |