Example sentences of "there [be] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People try to classify what sorts of group or characteristics there are of groups and you find that people look at group size , let's go through the list , group size , communication networks , roles and expectations , norms and rules , okay well roles and expectations , norms and rules slightly different . |
| 2 | Today there are about 35,000 species of crustacean — four times as many as there are of birds . |
| 3 | There are of course some positive signs around but also a danger that I want to alert you to : a growth in what I will call ‘ designer caring ’ . |
| 4 | There are of course others : such reinscription has worked via minimalist perversion — for instance , the complete defacement via minimum change as in the street graffito which blackens one tooth of the billboard toothpaste ad , or the MLA panel paper : ‘ A thing of beauty is a boy forever ’ — a difference of barely more ( or less ) than a single inverted letter ) . |
| 5 | As for rigs other than the hair for boilie fishing there are of course plenty of alternatives . |
| 6 | There are of course other groups of Asian immigrants , Punjabis from East Africa , urban immigrants from towns like Delhi and so on . |
| 7 | There are of course parliamentary questions , although individual members of the Bundestag may only ask Kleine Anfrage ( small questions ) : a quorum of 26 is need to ask a Grosse Anfrage ( major question ) and these require a fuller reply . |
| 8 | There are of course problems in bringing up a Down 's child which are not present , at least to the same degree , in bringing up a child without Down 's Syndrome . |
| 9 | There are of course exceptions — film noir , melodrama and , for television , prime-time melodrama are critical attempts to define a genre or distinguish a subgenre where no industry label exists — and in television there is increasing recognition by both critics and producers of cross-generic mutations which defy easy categorization . |
| 10 | There are of course one or two ways up the face of the Arête but personally I would n't advise it . |
| 11 | There are of course formidable difficulties to be overcome . |
| 12 | She adds , however , ‘ there are of course many magnificent exceptions . ’ |
| 13 | But as well as the bills and routine costs , there are of course the hidden costs of good health — hidden costs which can soon become expensive indeed . |
| 14 | There are of course some cases in which the treatment of civil-law and trust dispositions can not be parallel , since the civil law wholly fails to recognize dispositions of that type . |
| 15 | There are of course things to see , places to visit . |
| 16 | There are of course other mechanisms for replacing mosquito populations which depend on the hybrid resulting from the mating between released insect and the natural ( wild ) one being sterile or partially so . |
| 17 | There are of course , certain similarities : one of them is the sustaining pedal which already works very well on a Mozart piano , although you have to use your knees on the earlier ones . |
| 18 | There are of course passages where Klemperer 's gravitas is amazingly powerful , as in the first movement , but the first ‘ Nachtmusik ’ requires greater momentum if it is not to appear diffuse . |
| 19 | There are of course divisions of opinion as to the idiomatic nature of Brahms 's writing , and none of these pieces lie easily within the hands . |
| 20 | There are of course cases where the implications of ideas about communication have been thought through and subjected to more accommodating interpretation . |
| 21 | There are of course difficulties in compiling any such table . |
| 22 | There are of course some real disadvantages in the switch from weekly to monthly pay , and the switch from cash to a bank account which tends to accompany this . |
| 23 | There are of course some longer-term implications . |
| 24 | There are of course exceptions to the rule : you can ask someone the time , or for directions ; you can expect to attract comment if your behaviour is somehow deviant , for example you are hopping down the street dressed in a clown suit . |
| 25 | There are of course endless problems for the analyst who wishes to use the concept of the collective consciousness but it does at least involve an attempt to locate the basis of meaning in a social context . |
| 26 | There are of course references to work in progress — a letter from Matisse on the installation of ‘ La Danse ’ at the Barnes Foundation : ‘ the panel is installed and suits the architecture , from which it seems inseparable ’ , as well as a melancholy reflection on the nature of drawing by Matisse from 1940 : ‘ A colorist 's drawing is not a painting . |
| 27 | There are of course all kinds of truths that are not of this sort ; but they lie on a lower level altogether . |
| 28 | There are of course many incest taboos , that is to say , prohibitions on sexual relations between persons of various degrees of familial relation , and some of these are hardly even candidates for biological explanation . |
| 29 | The baby was in the Rena for four weeks at two guineas a week … the bill amounted to £16.12s.10d. and so you see , with all these expenses , the cost of having a baby has turned out to be very great , and now there are of course the funeral fees . ’ |
| 30 | There are of course arguments on both sides … |