Example sentences of "there [am/are] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There are normally two volumes on display in the Long Room , one opened at a completely illuminated page and the other showing pages of text .
2 The two sets of chromosomes are contributed by the two parents of the new being ; there are normally 23 pairs — 22 like pairs and one pair which , although coming from the two parents , may differ .
3 The process of admissions also varies , not only from one course to another , but between younger and older students , and from one institution to another : for example , the Open University is ‘ open ’ in terms of admissions , and there are normally special regulations relating to mature students ( on undergraduate courses , typically but not always those aged over 21 on entry ) .
4 As we saw , there are broadly two schools of Marxist thought — those which rely on an instrumental view of the state-economy relationship and those of a structuralist type , which allow for a degree of freedom for the state and discuss power in terms of hegemony and control .
5 There are broadly three ways of reducing mankind 's output of carbon dioxide .
6 There are equally logical intercorrelations between the various land-cover pixel counts which are used as the carrier variables .
7 There are equally substantial elements who do n't want to help and there are other elements who are unsure and who are looking for excuses not to help .
8 Luckily there are equally good routes on the walls to the side .
9 THE plight of the Bosnian refugees is terrible but there are equally pressing problems on our doorstep .
10 The objective is to get the students to discuss the arguments as in many cases there are equally acceptable alternatives .
11 There are equally significant changes implied in the role of general managers .
12 Elsewhere there are equally significant concentrations in the Sleaford area of Lincolnshire , Driffield ( North Yorkshire ) , Surrey , the Linton region in Cambridgeshire , Sussex and in Berkshire .
13 In the Lancashire township of Ince there are today twenty-three pit-shafts covering 199 acres , one large industrial slag-heap covering six acres , nearly 250 acres of land under water or marsh due to mining subsidence , another 150 acres liable to flooding , and thirty-six disused pit-shafts .
14 Today there are probably 12,000 healers in this country alone according to Denis Haviland , the director of the Confederation of Healing Organisations .
15 Clearly , listening to a Robert Johnson record now , in Britain , is very different from dancing to him playing live in a black bar in Mississippi in 1936 ; and there are probably consequential differences in the music itself , too ( for example , Johnson would at the very least be constrained by the time-limits imposed by the record form — as all musicians , even to some extent on LPs , are ; thus , in some ways a Duke Ellington concert , in a ‘ bourgeois ’ concert hall , using written parts , might turn out a more ‘ oral ’ experience than the same piece encapsulated on a twelve-inch record ) .
16 You mentioned one or two of the calamities ; in fact , you mentioned that there are probably eight calamities in recent fairly recent time .
17 At the moment I think , in there , there are probably sixteen children .
18 I mean , we 're not , erm , we 're just simplifying a very complex situation , and in fact , probably large numbers of genes are , are involved , and they 're , there are probably complex interactions between different sorts of altruism. kin altruism will certainly function within families for reasons that we 've just been looking at , but this will also be a fertile and erm , encouraging er , framework for sibling altruism .
19 Perhaps I could er answer that in er I think there are probably four points that er come out to my mind erm the first one in the airframe engine combination , a very high degree of agility .
20 Even though he may pay lip service to the idea that there are probably many breaks not yet discovered , nevertheless almost every geologist seems to accept the above doctrine , albeit subconsciously .
21 There are probably many reasons for this and I shall mention only a few of the important ones .
22 There are probably many examples of instances in which Western technology has come up with a good idea which has the capability of helping the hundreds of millions of people in the Developing World .
23 There are probably many situations where you as a manager have become so used to a task or a situation that it is no longer easy to bring to it a vigorous or fresh approach .
24 No , there are probably other forms already existing on those colours , we presume we would have to take off those colours .
25 There are probably other factors also responsible for the differences in permeability observed between patients with and without active disease .
26 There are probably other examples , but these are the two that most spring to mind while contemplating William on his park bench .
27 There are probably two reasons why traditional methods have remained in use .
28 It carries paternal antigens and is therefore a foreign body that ought to be attacked , and to obviate this there are probably blocking factors that prevent the paternal antigens from eliciting any reaction .
29 In the Hattie Jacques Cocktail Bar tonight , there are probably wry smiles on the faces of those who think they have seen the last of Leslie Bence rucking into the hurly-burly of football management .
30 Moving up a price bracket , there are probably more villas with pools , luxuriously comfortable rather than Costa-glitzy , along these lovely beaches that on any other coast in Europe .
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