Example sentences of "there [be] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are up to 8 rugose arm spines which are invested with thickened skin . |
| 2 | There are up to 8 straight pointed arm spines . |
| 3 | There are up to 360 incinerators working abroad and Britain also has a few systems . |
| 4 | There are up to 10 short only slightly rugose arm spines . |
| 5 | There are up to 250,000 sufferers in Britain today — about 20,000 of them in hospital at any one time . |
| 6 | There are now only 3,000 breeding pairs in the wild , but there are up to 30,000 in captivity . |
| 7 | There are up to eight parallel veins on either side of the midrib and a mass of cross veins connecting them . |
| 8 | The vast majority of these incomplete schools are in rural areas where classes are also large — the teachers ' union COLPROSUMAH claims that in some rural schools there are up to 120 children in a classroom . |
| 9 | There are up to four million quality control circle participants in Japanese industry and in large companies two in five workers are members . |
| 10 | Further , in some Australian languages there are up to four distinct sets of primary ( as opposed to special supplementary ) kin terms : ( a ) a set of vocative terms , ( b ) a set of terms which have an implicit first person possessive feature ( i.e mean " my mother 's brother " , etc. ) , ( c ) a set of terms which have a second person possessive feature ( i.e. mean " your mother 's brother " , etc. ) and ( d ) a set of terms which have third person possessive features ( i.e. mean " his or her mother 's brother " , etc . ) . |
| 11 | There are up to 3 flat pointed apical papillae flanked on each side by 4–5 flattened , pointed oral papillae . |
| 12 | There are up to 3 broad pointed apical papilla flanked on either side by 3 broad flap-like oral papillae . |
| 13 | Because there are up to seven outstanding maturities at any one time , the total number of observations was over 2000 . |
| 14 | Winter is perhaps most exciting , when there are up to 50 whooper swans from Iceland resident on the floods and meadows . |
| 15 | There are up to 400 000 birds present at a time : mostly greylag geese , wigeon , and coot , which spend the winter from November to February , and others which pass through en route to South Africa . |
| 16 | There are up to twenty-nine teeth in the upper jaw and twenty-five or twenty-six in the lower . |
| 17 | There are up to three rounded blunt apical papillae flanked on either side by 6–7 oral papillae , the proximal ones are blunt but the distal ones are more spine-like . |
| 18 | The Master Level Index is the main entry point to the entire system , below which there are up to three levels of functional refinement . |
| 19 | At other times in action there were up to 630 men in a Commando . |
| 20 | As there were up to sixteen different taxes , the more ignorant , who were usually also the poorest , were compelled to run to their more fortunate fellows for advice on how to calculate , time , and pay ( or avoid paying ) these complex dues . |
| 21 | Mr Hooker estimates that 12 years ago , when he paid £1.50 for his first grip , there were up to 100 collectors of whom he knew a couple of dozen . |
| 22 | Then , on Friday 29 October , inshore fishermen reported that there were up to 100 whales dead and alive , in the vicinity of Clay Hole ( see map ) . |
| 23 | Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom . |
| 24 | Other specialist courses are run by The Avenue Riding Centre , Malvern , Worcestershire ( Tel : 0684 310731 ) who show there 's more to Western style riding than meets the eye , and Red House Stables ( Tel : 0629 733583 ) for driving , of which a three day introductory offer is the most popular . |
| 25 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |
| 26 | Five decades of work by the Italian genius prove that there 's more to fantastic footwear than Red Or Dead ( see left ) . |
| 27 | But there 's more to these 26th November recordings than famous and soon-to-be-famous names : take such as Kogo , Now 's the Time , Warming up a Riff and Billie 's Bounce represent Parker at what one might consider his recently matured best . |
| 28 | Bizarrely , it 's a pork butcher 's shop , and there 's more to this business than a bacon slicer and a few trays of pies . |
| 29 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |
| 30 | But there 's more to this agitated fivesome than meets the eye , like a heady dose of Huggy Bear 's violent femme fatale fury , and almost jazzy flicks from their drumming duo . |