Example sentences of "[ex0] be [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 One early writer , John of Damascus , said : ‘ Had there been anything of me not assumed ( by the Word of God ) it would not have been saved , .
2 Never before in the whole history of Fleet Street has there been anything like it .
3 There are plenty of them .
4 Holyfield 's men , and there are plenty of them , including a woman as ballet coach , are certain that he will emerge as a true heavyweight champion , capable of taking out the big men of the division .
5 I should save the trip until the weekend , when we can all go , besides , she 'll be bored with all your old historical studies , she 'll want to be with other people of her own age , other Americans , perhaps — I mean , there are plenty of them about the place , goodness knows , and that shirt should really go in the wash straight away . ’
6 There are plenty of them .
7 We know there are plenty of you howlers out there — so send us an example of your most tuneful work , as soon as possible .
8 1 should have thought that that was the punishment , not the education , though God knows there are plenty around who think of education that way .
9 They hold that we may , with justification , be certain of beliefs which , we admit , risk falsification , or that we may be justified in holding beliefs although there are none of which we are certain .
10 There are none of us , including Cliff , a concrete contractor from Washington state , and his wife Sandy , who wanted to go to Paris this summer but lost the toss of a coin ; Bill , who writes travel guides and is comfortable only in his own company ; and Ken , a semi-retired naval man from Oregon , who spends most of the time wrestling with the impossible task of capturing the gigantic scenery in photographs .
11 The Labour leader , John Smith , took full advantage of their discomfiture , and the conference demonstrated that whatever its doubts over Smith 's modernising intentions , there are none concerning his home rule credentials .
12 Although the flowers are only 1 inch ( 2.5cm ) across , there are lots of them , and they are the deepest , purest yellow .
13 It 's no good trying to remember every word that starts with a C cos there are lots of them .
14 There are lots of them , they have different titles and work for different agencies , and often we get a bit confused as to who they are .
15 And there are lots of them , in fact Anna Freud in her book , The Ego and the Mechanism , gives a list , and I ca n't remember how many terms there are on the list
16 He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place .
17 He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place .
18 He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place .
19 If you are already a diet winner — and , contrary to what the average survey would have us believe , there are lots of you about — then we can make you even more successful .
20 Now , there are lots of you , have got skills involving just memorising or learning of , doing research on a particular subject , whether , obviously , your Red Dwarf , how to you go about it .
21 Well , Dave , there are lots like me who climb in the middle grades and who will also love this guidebook .
22 The man began laughing at him and said ‘ You need to get here when the doors open — there are lots like you , looking for a roof over their heads .
23 Will there be something for everybody , for people of all ages , in the European arts festival ?
24 The PLAYER stands with huge , terrible eyes , clutches at the wound as the blade withdraws : he makes small weeping sounds and falls to his knees , and then right down : While he is dying , GUIL , nervous , high , almost hysterical , wheels on the TRAGEDIANS ) If we have a destiny , then so had he — and if this is ours , then that was his — and if there are no explanation for us , then let there be none for him ( The TRAGEDIANS watch the PLAYER die : they watch with some interest .
25 Well er the money was not you had to buy the and the there were nothing in it unless you went into choosing a a big system like the battery system .
26 The IRA perhaps or some Middle Eastern group , there were plenty of them .
27 Mahmoud 's barbs , and there were plenty of them now , for Mahmoud was getting irritated , bounced off his massive self-assurance like wooden arrows off a rock of granite .
28 Holland , can to see , look to me as if there were plenty of it when I was there .
29 He reminded me that there were plenty in his early lifetime .
30 ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing .
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