Example sentences of "[vb past] there be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might be growing to detest the man more with every passing second , but she doubted there was a woman alive who could deny his sheer male beauty , or fail to be drawn to it on the most basic level . |
| 2 | Now look at the other list and see which the points listed there are changeable . |
| 3 | Like finds at an archaeological site , each book listed there is an object that speaks for itself . |
| 4 | Alexei guessed that where the supports rose there were the foundations of the buildings above ground . |
| 5 | He maintained there was only one way to resolve differences within the party leadership over Labour 's policy towards a privatised water industry : ‘ Take water back without compensation . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Justice Auld ruled in favour of the defence , who maintained there was no manslaughter case . |
| 7 | Conyers evidently formed a bridge between the Middleham affinity and its new lord : the first men whom Gloucester retained there were virtually all kinsmen of Sir John . |
| 8 | Conyers evidently formed a bridge between the Middleham affinity and its new lord : the first men whom Gloucester retained there were virtually all kinsmen of Sir John . |
| 9 | However whatever the terminology used there is a requirement for design effort . |
| 10 | Perhaps the same thing happened to him on Weathertop , where he put the Ring on as the Ringwraiths closed in , but the words used there are ‘ temptation ’ and ‘ desire ’ — ‘ his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring . |
| 11 | But despite the er , rather individualistic nature of the context used there 's enough flexibility and openness within the subject content , to say . |
| 12 | The choice of 6 January for this purpose has been traced back to the gnostic Christians of Egypt , the corresponding date in the calendar used there being traditionally associated with the blessing of the Nile . |
| 13 | Completely refurbished and upgraded there is a lounge . |
| 14 | For the widowed or divorced there was no difference between those with and without children nor any significant trend with the number of children . |
| 15 | Again , the key to assimilation was complete equality of peoples , and opposition to those who pretended there were separate national cultures operating above the two classes in each culture ( as argued by Bauer ) . |
| 16 | Libby knew there were no deer , only rabbits , but George often pretended there were . |
| 17 | The garden she created there was an inspiration for a new garden art , combining the skills of a painter with a deep appreciation of colour beauty , and a gardener who understood the living materials of her art , where and how to grow plants , and when they would flower in her colour schemes . |
| 18 | It was a starry night , and as we swam there was light in the water , sparkling , rippling , starlight playing on our fingers and the smooth seal-like lines of our bodies . |
| 19 | That is why I can not find it within me to sympathise with the poor punters who once besieged the offices of the Daily Mail demanding their £35,000 in prize money only to find that when the music stopped there were more winners than chairs for them to sit upon . |
| 20 | The Maidens were living on a fifty-eight foot boat with twelve people aboard , wherever they moved there was somebody else . |
| 21 | The promised allowance to cover extra heating and lighting was not forthcoming , and as the days lengthened and winter approached there was understandable bad feeling between landladies and their reluctant lodgers . |
| 22 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 23 | Does he recall that last time this occurred there was an immediate leap forward in terms of killing ? |
| 24 | They found there are higher levels of carbon monoxide , carbon monoxide pollution from vehicle exhausts has increased by forty two percent |
| 25 | Because of the steady flow of Atlantic Ocean surface waters into the Arctic basin , most zooplankton species found there are of Atlantic origin . |
| 26 | However , as discussed in Part B of this report , we found there is increasingly debate as to the overall benefits of such centralised operations ( and , indeed , of the notion of head office-based corporate planning departments per se ) . |
| 27 | We also found there is a substantial trim change between first stage of flap and full flap . |
| 28 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 29 | Players certainly gained in terms of rising wages , advertising , and other sources of income , but at the highest level they often found there were new stresses to cope with as they were ‘ declassed ’ and lost touch with their old communities . |
| 30 | When I got to the classroom , I found there were only about six students in the class , and we chatted idly until the lecturer arrived . |