Example sentences of "[ex0] a " in BNC.

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1 I was silent for a moment , then I asked : ‘ Is there a telephone somewhere ?
2 Is there a disabled access ?
3 Is there a limit to the grant and will I have to pay anything ?
4 Is there a seven o'clock in the morning ?
5 Was there a wind to swing the great plantation bell which he had brought home and hung on the oak beside the east gate ?
6 Is there a masochistic streak in all woodturners that sends them back to the pole lathe ?
7 I like the idea of using steel but is there a problem with rusting ?
8 Was there a contingency plan to cover the loss of McGrath , Moran and Staunton ?
9 Was there a vote ?
10 The ends are various : here a visionary oratorio , there an opera buffa ; here a craggy piano etude , there a melting morceau de salon .
11 Is there a legal requirement in the company for a minimum ‘ local ’ ownership of businesses in the country ?
12 Is there a period of incapacity for work ( PIW ) ?
13 There is no barrier between Marx 's and Engels 's anthropology and their history , nor is there a barrier between their history and anthropology taken together and their politics .
14 Weird shapes abound , here a Red Indian profile , there a church steeple .
15 Only once , in a fleeting reference to Matisse is there a sense of the boot being on the other foot , of art offering a sense of liberation from social ideology .
16 Is n't there a bridge there where poor old Harold won a victory before coming a cropper at Hastings ? ’
17 There a quack . ’
18 ‘ Is there a heaven and a hell ? ’
19 Is there a company that would make new frames using my silver surrounds ?
20 And is n't there a danger that the demand for food cooked in deep-fat fryers will dwindle as a result of increasing publicity about healthy eating ?
21 Is there a good quality second thermostat ?
22 ‘ Is there a potential on the Earth now , ’ Tooley asked , ‘ for catastrophic , subglacial floods raising sea level by 23cm in a few weeks or several metres in a few years ? ’
23 Nor is there a guarantee that the Office of Fair Trading , an old sparring partner of the exchange , will take kindly to some proposals .
24 Is there a broad enough base for popular capitalism ?
25 Was there a choice ?
26 The question whether a man who considers himself wronged has a claim which he can make good will depend on the answer to the question : Is there a writ to meet his case or , if there is not one , can one be framed which the King 's Courts will hold good ?
27 Her incessant chatter was mainly of feminism , she referred pointedly to her ‘ walk Person ’ , yet when her typewriter went wrong , she bleated : ‘ Is there a man around ? ,
28 Was there a whiff of the Wild Wood !
29 There a hybrid service takes place , to which even a confirmed atheist could hardly object .
30 There a Scottish engineer , Dundas Porteous , erected in the Woodside Cemetery a vault for his family surmounted by a bell , which could be tolled from within .
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