Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] [conj] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence was that there was no consideration for the promise because the plaintiff was bound by his existing contract to assist in sailing the ship . |
| 2 | Does my hon. Friend accept that the change is that there is now a proposal to cut a road through the wood whereas 40 years ago there was not ? |
| 3 | And with the building societies coming under pressure from both consumer groups and the Government the signs are that there will be even fewer repossessions this year . |
| 4 | What is clearly the case is that there is no simple , magic theory to explain what advertising does , and how it does it . |
| 5 | One helpful aspect of the case was that there were good up-to-date photographs of the man . |
| 6 | The advantage is that there is no line , visible to the fish , coming from the bait , either on the surface or going down to the bottom . |
| 7 | What worries me at the moment about the proposals is that there is discrimination not only against the United Kingdom but against Europe in the way in which the Commission is carrying out the negotiations with the United States . |
| 8 | And one of the say one of the proposals was that there should be this er line from , and through this town , and over to join the er Nottingham , Lincoln line er at . |
| 9 | in for it , drinking at and last year the coincidence was and there was a horse in the race called the year the , the wi the winner a woman |
| 10 | The difficulty was that there was no agreement about the signs , and down to the seventeenth century no strong feeling that there should be such agreement . |
| 11 | The difficulty was that there was a naval lieutenant in charge of the tow and he refused absolutely to let any officer of the Chilean Navy on to the Santa Maria del Sud to assess the damage . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know what the reasons are because there has been nothing said to me , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ The story is that there 's an irresponsible , bored lunatic in Deptford , and I ought to keep him in a cage until I need him . ’ |
| 14 | The story was that there had once been houses on each side of the road but a century or so ago , those on the west had been demolished to add to the parkland . |
| 15 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 16 | When Galileo inquired how the presence of the invisible substance might be detected , the reply was that there was no way in which it could be detected . |
| 17 | The defence to the action was that there was no consideration for the promise of payment , it being the duty of the county council to supply police protection ; there was also a counterclaim for £1,330 4s. , the cost of feeding and housing the police supplied . |
| 18 | Yet the irony was that there was no support in Cabinet for the proposals and they had almost reached the point of rejection when the leak took place . |
| 19 | The Head of Department remarked that an overall criticism of the department was that there was not enough variety . |
| 20 | ‘ I know who the kids are but there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 21 | Right you have to come I think the basis of this evening was to get people to come along and put there points of view and to say what 's happening and what is n't happening and I think we can take that take that away and considerate it yes I mean I I think the board or the management committee will be happy to meet with people to discuss the use of the theatre er what it 's used for what might what the unhappiness is if there is unhappiness and the positive and the positive as well as the negative points yes . |
| 22 | The central hypothesis of the research is that there was a shift in respectable middle class public opinion from the orthodoxy of emancipation in the 1830s to the legitimation of new forms of racism by the 1860s . |
| 23 | And finally I can just look at erm draft planning policy guidance thirteen , it is very easy to lift one or two sentences out of either the draft planning policy note , or indeed the Ecotech report which underpins it , erm , I think if a full reading is made of that , what comes across strongly in the research is that there is a very complex relationship between urban forms and transport patterns , and indeed erm I think the advice in P P G , er draft P P G thirteen is prefaced with a note that erm , transport issues are , will be erm , there are very few general principles , if any , and local er considerations will influence the er the importance of this iss issue very considerably , what I think draft P P G thirteen does invite us to do is to more overtly look the transportation implications of alternative settlement patterns , and that 's all . |
| 24 | The result is that there is n't really a model which describes filmmaking in its full complexity . |
| 25 | The result is that there are books on many library shelves which have at one time been declared obscene or indecent and may be so categorized again . |
| 26 | The result is that there is a danger of familiarity with our topic of study . |
| 27 | The result is that there is a tendency to assume that corporate management are adequately controlled by the shareholders in all companies , including the large public company . |
| 28 | The result is that there is an apparent openness in the class structure , with very diverse backgrounds for people in middle-class jobs . |
| 29 | The result is that there is no coherent and sustained statement of the classical Greek or Athenian case for democracy ; while the case against it has almost monopolized the attention of posterity . |
| 30 | The result is that there is no increase in provision of the good when there is a cut in taxes , even though when the lump-sum grant applies there was an increase in provision . |