Example sentences of "[conj] there be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are to establish how and to what extent routine policing is affected by Northern Ireland 's divisions , it would be useless to base our research where there is only militarized political policing ( even though there are at least formal attempts to try to normalize policing in areas of high tension ) , for it is necessary to explore the extent to which policing in so-called ‘ soft ’ areas is contaminated by wider societal conflicts . |
| 2 | Where there is usually to pop of a toy cannon , there is silence and , come to think of it , I do n't remember hearing the clock strike midnight either . |
| 3 | Where there are already target dates for environmental improvements , the report would show whether those might be achieved on present trends . |
| 4 | The new act clearly falls far short of the demand for freedom of information legislation with a presumption that all official information is in the public domain except where there are clearly defined reasons for restricting disclosure and where there is adequate monitoring to ensure that civil servants and politicians are committed to implementing the principles behind the legislation . |
| 5 | It also gives them protection as they venture across the open plains of sand , where there are no hiding places . |
| 6 | During normal growth , they may acquire defects from distorted internal structure between mosaic crystals , suffer omission defects where grounds of atoms or molecules are missing from lattice sites , have charge displacements ( for example where there are abnormally ionized atoms ) , or undergo mechanical damage such as formation of distorted surfaces and cracks . |
| 7 | Beyond that I believe we can not go , although there are occasionally tantalizing groups of poems on related themes , either brought together by the editor/printer or composed as deliberate variations on a theme , and perhaps copied out on a ‘ sheet ’ of paper , folio size , folded ( which we know was a unit of composition and occasionally payment in Elizabethan poetry and drama ) . |
| 8 | Muscat , the first recorded grape variety in Alsace , appears to have no family links with the aromatic Gewürztraminer , although there are certainly taste associations . |
| 9 | Many professional travellers say that there is nowhere left to travel , but for most of us the old maxim that anywhere is new if you have not been there before , is true , and there are plenty of places left to escape to . |
| 10 | I 've had four tickets , but the problem is that there is nowhere to park , and you have to put your car somewhere . |
| 11 | He says that there 's somewhere to park , and the grub is cheap . |
| 12 | I 'm hopeful with the royal family getting so involved in lobbies and British charities which do lobby , and for instance the anti-smoking lobby , where there 's somebody that 's supporting that there 's always going to be somebody who 's opposing that . |
| 13 | Not that there 's anywhere to go . |
| 14 | Mind you , every time you say that there 's more comes out of it . |
| 15 | It is recognised that there are strongly held views on both sides of the ‘ smoking argument ’ . |
| 16 | It should perhaps be mentioned that there are also accounting exemptions for medium-sized companies ( annual turnover not exceeding £5750000 ) but these are modest and are barely worth the effort and expense of preparing separate accounts for the shareholders and filing with the Registrar of Companies . |
| 17 | This view is supported by postmortem studies of brain tissue which have shown that there are more dopamine sensitive sites on the surfaces of cells taken from schizophrenics than are found in normal brains . |
| 18 | Now , what 's being said here in that particular sentence , is that there are obviously going to be , or possibly could be occasions when er , the Police Authority has er , an overspend , which is an immediate problem for instance , on pensions , and you 've heard the er , Fire Service Chief talking about his problems . |
| 19 | Well I think having had a meeting with the er house builders er representatives earlier on , this table of differences now represents the differences that there are still remaining . |
| 20 | It is clear , for example , that there are still striking regional variations in the use of custodial remands , in spite of the Bail Act 's attempt to structure the decision-making process , which might have been expected to iron out some of the more extreme disparities . |
| 21 | It explains why Paul will not allow that there are specially illuminated , ‘ gnostic ’ Christians at Colossae : the divine mystery of the gospel is an open secret , and Paul warns ‘ every man , and teaches every man in all wisdom so as to present every man mature in Christ ’ ( Col. 1:26,28 ) . |
| 22 | In doing so he discovered that there were spontaneously generated potentials ( the EEG ) as well as showing that it was indeed possible to detect electrical brain responses to stimuli . |
| 23 | But they had long since agreed that there was nowhere to touch the English countryside . |
| 24 | The biggest challenge was convincing Bruce that there are other ways than corks on strings , but once over that there was no stopping him ! |
| 25 | He had so many wives that there was no counting them and the wives had so many young that even Frith could not count them and they ate the grass and the dandelions and the lettuces and the clover and El-ahrairah was the father of them all . " |
| 26 | Malekith himself remarked that there was no telling how high the corruption might reach . |
| 27 | The ethics may appear questionable to present day conservationists , but it may be said in defence that the trip was made with the knowledge of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , whose observations at that time showed that there was no falling off in the numbers of breeding birds as a result of the annual slaughter . |
| 28 | In Hammond , above , it was said that there was no making off when the creditor allowed the accused to leave . |
| 29 | Somehow in the days they had spent together he had twined himself within her heart and soul so completely that there was no denying he was there to stay . |
| 30 | It was a void so strange and complete that there was no mistaking it . |