Example sentences of "[adv] there [be] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps there was more than a grain of truth in the remark of one of his closest colleagues that Keynes ‘ had never spent the twenty minutes necessary to understand the theory of value ’ . |
2 | Suddenly there was somewhere where you could ‘ be ’ in peace , where plots could be hatched , messages got across and , best of all , where romance could be safely experienced . |
3 | I think I might , I du n no I 've got ta think of ways to change it so there 's more than one line taken |
4 | Admittedly there was more than a hint of urban overcrowding two doors away from William at no. 21 , where a glove cutter , a walnut-veneer repairer and a book finisher were living with their families — but that was exceptional . |
5 | Nationally there are more than 5,000 fatalities and 300,000 injured . |
6 | Brew-pubs ( restaurants that make and sell a house beer ) were largely unknown five years ago ; now there are more than 200 of them . |
7 | Now there are more than 1,000. 2 . |
8 | Now there are less than 30,000 and those 30,000 are producing the same amount of milk as the higher number did previously . |
9 | In the autumn there had been a great commotion when a large party of the King 's and Warden 's men , some fifty of them , mounted and heavily armed , gathered on Steep Ridgery and carefully marked where the plumes of smoke were rising — often there were more than one — and made off purposefully towards them . |
10 | IN BRITAIN today there are more than 60,000 children in care . |
11 | Today there are less than 50,000 . |
12 | That is , once candidate words have been selected , frequently there is more than one allowable candidate . |
13 | Not surprisingly there is more than one school of thought about the rightness of this . |
14 | Unfortunately there 's more than one way to have a hot product . |
15 | It is not an easy question and sometimes there is more than one answer . |
16 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |
17 | Currently there are more than 5,000 people registered for higher degrees through Henley . |