Example sentences of "there [be] [noun] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are procedures for putting ‘ interrogatories ’ to another party at the pre-trial stage , they are little used in practice and bear little or no resemblance to the United States practice of ‘ oral depositions ’ before trial . |
| 2 | There are advantages to listening in a face-to-face conversation which communication links such as the telephone and tape recorder do not offer , although being in the presence of the speaker is not an absolute prerequisite for ‘ effective listening ’ . |
| 3 | Birtwell acknowledges that there are advantages to having a settle side , but he also pinpoints what he sees as great drawbacks to this approach . |
| 4 | However , there are advantages to having an amateur detective of some sort , for you do not need to learn much about actual police procedures . |
| 5 | There are advantages in appointing Work Experience Co-ordinators , specifically to serve Compact . |
| 6 | Again there are advantages in choosing frusemide in preference to a thiazide in view of the increased risk of impotence and lipid abnormalities with the latter . |
| 7 | There are advantages in transferring the investments to your wife altogether so that the income arises to her if she has spare allowances , or if you are in the age allowance trap and she is not . |
| 8 | So there are advantages in running a big landfill or incinerator rather than a small one . |
| 9 | There are advantages in having one set of meetings starting just after school ends and the other set later on another evening so that shift workers have an opportunity to attend . |
| 10 | There are advantages in having it on your child 's birthday rather than the nearest weekend , in that it is a special day and it is fitting to have it as a day of celebration . |
| 11 | Where the product provides the basis for allocating work , there are advantages in having specialist sales representatives who can deal with technical as well as general queries ( eg as in computer sales ) . |
| 12 | It has to be admitted that there are problems with trying to state what data are without appearing to stipulate their character in advance . |
| 13 | There are problems with extrapolating from this type of study design ( NMBJ , Society for Social Medicine meeting , Nottingham , 1992 ) , but , on the assumption that a higher level of responsibility is positively associated with a larger number of patients , our estimate of total activity undertaken by nurse practitioners is best interpreted as an upper limit . |
| 14 | There are problems with designating these as new phyla , not least that nobody can define a phylum objectively , and my own view is that , marvellous though these animals are , we should still try to relate them to other organisms ( fossil and living ) . |
| 15 | In both , too , there are problems of defining the state . |
| 16 | They are disrupting the market and there are problems of pilfering and rubbish . |
| 17 | Fourth , scientific and technical education is more conducive to economic development than other types of education though there are problems of identifying the appropriate mix between these different forms . |
| 18 | These standards can be established by weighing a sufficient number of coins on a modern balance ( although there are problems in establishing ancient standards from the weight of surviving specimens ) . |
| 19 | However , there are problems in defining ‘ returns ’ on futures because the definition of the sum invested ( I t ) is problematic . |
| 20 | However , there are problems in determining the proportion of any price differential that is due to marking to the market and stochastic interest rates . |
| 21 | There may be some truth in the claim that there are problems in seeking to postulate ‘ a transcendental ideal of which the historical actualities are a succession of mundane and therefore imperfect , compromised manifestations ’ , and that the term religion is not something ‘ that can be formulated and externalized into an observable pattern theoretically abstractible from the persons who live it ’ . |
| 22 | Crime is often equated with the term deviance , but there are problems in using the two terms interchangeably , as substitutes for one another . |
| 23 | For the moment , let us call this developmental process ‘ learning ’ ( although , in Chapter 1 l , I shall show that there are problems in using the term ) . |
| 24 | When there are problems in providing adequate meals for the patient , the social worker may bring in the ‘ meals on wheels ’ service . |
| 25 | Does my hon. Friend agree that in constituencies such as mine in the south-east there are problems in providing houses for those most in need and I welcome the additional figures that he has announced for housing associations ? |
| 26 | However , it is clear that there are problems in developing a class taxonomy for older people . |
| 27 | There are problems in assessing these claims , in part because of disputes over the starting date — 1979 , when Mrs Thatcher came to office , or 1981 , the low point of the recession — and whether comparison is made with the 1970s or 1960s . |
| 28 | Clearly there are problems in interpreting responses to these types of questions . |
| 29 | Under our current system of care provision there are problems in co-ordinating the activities of these different agencies . |
| 30 | I argued earlier that there are problems in attempting any rigorous theoretical definition of the ‘ manual work/mental work ’ , or ‘ manual/non-manual ’ , distinction but all the same this classification , conceived as a socially constructed principle of division , has a certain social validity , as least as it applies to male workers . |