Example sentences of "[verb] there is [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they ca n't see trains coming and drivers do n't know there is anyone inside the box . |
| 2 | Even the earliest beginner , if he or she has seen the originals , will instantly recognise there is something missing . |
| 3 | Golding 's novel is to some degree experimental in style , and when we read it , we sense there is something " odd " about Lok 's language . |
| 4 | But they also throw up their arms , and say there is nothing they can do except hope that people power will prevail and the self-styled ‘ great redeemer ’ self-destruct . |
| 5 | Some say they should bring back hanging ; others say it is the politicians they should hang ; but most say there is nothing anybody can do at all . |
| 6 | The unions say he did but , crucially , neither British Coal nor Mr Heseltine say there is anything in the document to lead to this interpretation . |
| 7 | Check that the doorway is high enough , wince there is nothing more annoying than to keep bumping your head every time you walk in . |
| 8 | But Mr Delors , whose use of the word morosité grows ever more frequent , says there is nothing to cheer about while Europe remains impotent in the face of the Yugoslav tragedy . |
| 9 | The doctor says there is nothing he can do . |
| 10 | But Mr Murphy says there is nothing to show that Mary , who was a Church of Ireland member , was the Molly of the song . |
| 11 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 12 | The bible says there is none righteous ! |
| 13 | It is a pity that , instead of dismissing it as non-serious , they have not devoted their knowledge and experience to exploring ways in which we might more effectively ( and granted there is plenty of evidence of bad education carried out in the name of free play ) harness this natural power for learning . |
| 14 | ( Do you ever feel there is anything else you would rather be doing now … ? ) |
| 15 | So what you just put there is nothing . |
| 16 | Now at first sight , all this evidence that the universe looks the same whichever direction we look in might seem to suggest there is something special about our place in the universe . |
| 17 | He has told me : ‘ It is completely absurd to suggest there is anything unprofessional in my friendship with the duchess . |
| 18 | And then he left the conference with the closing statement : ‘ There 's nothing at all in what I 've said to suggest there is anything improper . ’ |
| 19 | Summers , for instance , said to me ‘ Elbing , old boy , I can see there is nothing phoney about you . ' ’ |
| 20 | I du n no who , who do I m I do n't know , I d do that to s er see there is somebody that I do that quite a bit to but I ca n't remember who it is or a few people maybe . |
| 21 | It would be absurd to send a list of questions to the vendor , such as ‘ please confirm your roof is working properly ’ , ‘ please confirm there is nothing wrong with your foundations ’ . |
| 22 | It was Paine 's belief that England lacked a constitution , as he stated at p. 370 that ‘ the continual use of the word ‘ constitution ’ in the English parliament shows there is none and the whole is merely a form of government without a constitution , and constituting itself with what power it pleases ’ . |
| 23 | MISERY GUTS Rod Mackay never looks on the bright side of life he does n't believe there is one ! |
| 24 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 25 | I know there is something in your past of which you will not speak . |
| 26 | Parents on the streets of the town know there is something badly wrong , that the issue is control of their children , and it is often to the school that they look . |
| 27 | I said , well I said er I 'll ask Peter , I know there is one down there but whether it 's for sale or not , I said I 'll be cheeky this morning and ask him . |
| 28 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 29 | So , unlike most companies , IBM can guarantee that a new concept is going to reach the entire management population within a year — and IBMers are sufficiently motivated to want to catch up if they hear there is something new coming . |
| 30 | The other possibility er is that having read it the site visit that I will have made , in any event , either already or or at some time during the latter part of next week , I may discover there is something which one of the parties points out which I have n't looked at because I did n't realize that it was relevant . |