Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] there be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With more than one fifth of the world 's population living in China , the agricultural industry there is of considerable interest , and collaborative research on agriculture could be of benefit to all the partners involved . |
| 2 | In any social formation there is at least one class which , by virtue of its various determinations , is dominant in the sense that it is better placed to realise its interests than its rivals . |
| 3 | The pertinent question is what theoretical basis there is to such a model . |
| 4 | By the time of the French Revolution there were in any case only three monks left in Saint-Savin and even though the church was spared the vindictive demolition which removed the adjacent monastery buildings , by 1840 it was more than ready to be rescued by the growing movement for the Conservation of ancient monuments . |
| 5 | The less biographical or historical evidence there is for this view of Milton , the more the scholars believe it , producing readings of Paradise Lost which ignore Lewis 's golden rule , ‘ You must , so far as in you lies , become an Achaean chief while reading Homer , a medieval knight while reading Malory , and an Eighteenth Century Londoner while reading Johnson . |
| 6 | Making the Qiblatain Mosque there was like working in the Vatican or an active Mont St Michael or Chartres . |
| 7 | Edward had won over the industrial towns of Flanders in 1340 , and the maintenance of the English position there was to be a basic strategic principle until its decisive failure in 1385 . |
| 8 | We do not know what legal or moral basis there was for it . |
| 9 | What limited evidence there is on the relative propensity of blacks and whites to be relaxed suggests that , in contrast to Kane 's view , black sportsmen were more ‘ concerned ’ and ‘ serious ’ — uptight — than their white counterparts ( Ogilvie and Tutko , 1966 ) . |
| 10 | I mean there are some Conservatives who do actually believe in the social welfare of the but there are also , I 'm I 'm sure there are large numbers who actually know what vicious streak there is behind a lot of the other measures of social control that have gone on in this country since consensus was in nineteen seventy nine er you actually realise what what a tragedy it is in this area . |
| 11 | Whereas , in a crystal we may choose the axes of symmetry , in an amorphous polymer there is by definition no symmetry and all we know about the atom in a chain is where its topological nearest neighbours are but not where its spatial neighbours are , except that they lie within a " van der Waals radius ' of the chosen atom . |
| 12 | Evolutionary pressures would have gone to work on whatever genetic variability there was in the ability to make the relevant cross-modal associations underlying linguistic competence . |
| 13 | What a wonderful and thrilling finale there was to that match , as McEnroe held and then lost three match points , saved three against him , and then eventually claimed victory on his sixth match point . |
| 14 | Bear in mind that Nottinghamshire is quite a large county there are about one million people living in Nottinghamshire . |
| 15 | This small growth in overall net disincentive effect between 1956 and 1968 , and its being more pronounced at higher-income levels , was really all the empirical support there was in the UK for those suggesting that higher taxes discouraged work effort . |
| 16 | Labour condemned General Noriega as a corrupt dictator , but Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , demanded to know what rationale in international law there was for the invasion . |
| 17 | What little friendship , humanity , good nature there was between us has gone . |
| 18 | We ought to ask ourselves why this disquieting inflation should have taken place ; we ought also to consider what causal relationship there is between ‘ artistic culture ’ and creativity . |
| 19 | HOW MANY DISABLED ELDERLY WILL THERE BE IN THE FUTURE ? |
| 20 | The average one-third ownership reflected the great pressure there was on the family farmer when a member of the family came home , or on a part-time farmer who was trying to expand with a view to becoming full-time . |
| 21 | Hahnemann and his followers left us a legacy of many hundreds of remedies and the number has continued to grow until at the present time there are between two and three thousand remedies in the homoeopathic materia medica , each with its remedy picture , some of which have been more extensively worked out than others . |
| 22 | By real guitarists I mean people like Hubert Sumlin , Cesar Rosas , Dave Hidalgo , Corrado Rustici , James Calvin Wilsey , and the host of mind-blowing talent there is in London alone . |
| 23 | You talked earlier about the inertia of the orchestral mass and the physical strain there is on both the conductor and the players . |
| 24 | Not only did his broadsides provide the only small check there was against wholesale malai excesses , they alerted the population to what would have been kept secret . |
| 25 | ‘ I think it may revolve around the only subject there is in England . ’ |
| 26 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 27 | If someone asks ‘ How much of X do we have in stock ? ’ they want to know how many of a specific item there are on the premises — both on the shop floor and in the warehouse or storeroom . |
| 28 | So for the animal-watcher it becomes a challenge , with every brightly coloured species encountered , to find out what particular advantage there is in giving up the quiet life and facing daily exposure . |
| 29 | OPPOSITE PAGE , BOTTOM PHOTOGRAPH There is in fact no evidence to suggest that the Druids existed when Stonehenge was first constructed , yet modern-day Druidic cults still seek to worship there . |
| 30 | Erm in terms of taking up their ideas , guiding them , encouraging them etcetera an and saying look , you know , this is okay er er er I mean to an extent that would depend on how much military security there was in the area . |