Example sentences of "the [noun] [ex0] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Back in the tent there is more soup , coffee and a hunk of smoked lamb that goes down well .
2 At both ends of the tent there are three options when opening the fly door — including rolling up the bellends to the top .
3 Within the park there is a large swimming pool , a separate children 's pool , and an indoor pool .
4 up the hill from the park there 's a roundabout ,
5 Down by the tailpiece there are some screw-holes left over from fitting a Bigsby vibrato .
6 For the housewife there is a pre-set maximum limit of five thousand , six hundred and forty pounds per annum benefit .
7 In the case of the housewife there are two possible discrepancies which might be connected with dissatisfaction : that between the status of housewife and the status of the husband 's work , and the discrepancy between the status of the housewife 's own present or previous employment work and her status as a housewife .
8 At the base there is a locally derived ground moraine that may be a remnant glacial deposit of much greater antiquity .
9 But in the mid-1970s there was an acrimonious conflict between the different intelligence gathering agencies in the province .
10 From the late 1960s to the mid-1970s there was much political debate on pensions reform and two failed attempts at legislation before the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 was passed , becoming effective in 1978 .
11 ( When quality is left out of the regression there is a 5.3 point ROI differential . )
12 Moreover to implement the change there is no sign of introducing the extra resources which most commentators see as necessary .
13 And on the other hand , what are changes such that we want to say that at the end of the change there is just no me left there at all and I 've been replaced by something else .
14 This could happen if , for example , the wholesaler has gone out of business or if in the contract between the wholesaler and the retailer there is a valid exemption clause which prevents the wholesaler being liable to the retailer .
15 Between those two lines of the accounts there is virtually nothing but disaster .
16 During the trial there was no evidence of sexual abuse put forward .
17 Among those completing the trial there were no side effects reported .
18 What is certain is that in the EEC there is literally one law for the private company and another for the state-owned one .
19 Below the sandstones there is a thick sequence of tuffs and lavas , already referred to and believed to be Lower Permian .
20 Mind you , I have nothing against men — after all , I am one myself — but in the RAF there were too many of them .
21 Running along the middle part of the shell there is a narrow tube — the siphuncle — which connects the living chamber with the earlier parts of the shell .
22 From the point of view of the drafter there is a further danger .
23 In the afternoon there is an optional excursion along the shores of Lake Como returning by boat .
24 In the afternoon there 's a big volley-ball game in the school grounds .
25 In the afternoon there was dancing on the wards .
26 Midway through the afternoon there was the longest grind comp , in which dreadlocked local favourite Colin was beaten surprisingly by Richie , the Pete Rodgers for the nineties , whose reliably long stand-ups proved too much for everyone else .
27 And there was when it came on , in the afternoon there was this tremendous very loud roar !
28 In the afternoon there were sports on the playing fields for the children , a children 's fancy dress competition , welly-throwing greasy pole , side-stalls and a tombola .
29 The annual feast when the ‘ men only ’ members wearing blue sashes and white gloves marched with a band to the church for a service followed by a dull dinner in the Board inn clubroom , then in the afternoon there were sports for the whole village .
30 At this hour of the afternoon there were few signs of life in the house .
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