Example sentences of "[ex0] be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Has there been an accident or what ? ’ |
| 2 | Only once , last autumn , had there been an unnerving lift , a well-dressed man in a Mercedes , who had wanted Luke to drive on towards Devon with him , had offered him dinner and a night at a hotel , had put his hand high up on Luke 's thigh , and been altogether menacing . |
| 3 | ( i ) Has there been an improper , unreasonable or negligent act or omission ? ( ii ) As a result have any costs been incurred by a party ? ( iii ) If the answers to ( i ) and ( ii ) are ‘ Yes ; ’ should the court exercise its discretion to disallow or order the representative to meet the whole or any part of the relevant costs , and if so what specific sum is involved ? |
| 4 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 5 | Not since the hey-day of Bette Davis has there been an actress who 's attracted so much loathing — and so much admiration . |
| 6 | As government has expanded so has there been an increasing need to coordinate the administrative side of the state machine . |
| 7 | ‘ Has there been an accident ? ’ |
| 8 | So far as I know , however , there have not been any comprehensive studies of the rise and fall of various economic groups in more recent times , nor has there been an attempt to provide , on a broad scale , an economic interpretation of political events in the twentieth century , although there are of course many elements of such an interpretation in recent Marxist debates about modes of production , in the analyses of development and underdevelopment , and in the theories of industrial and post-industrial societies . |
| 9 | Has there been an accident ? ’ |
| 10 | Had there been an accident ? |
| 11 | Has there been an incident of any kind ? |
| 12 | Answer guide : Broadly the criteria is : has there been an enhancement of the future benefits as a result of incurring the cost ? |
| 13 | The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake . |
| 14 | There are an awful lot of people monitoring the situation , pointing out to the ‘ powers that be ’ where things are going wrong and suggesting solutions . |
| 15 | The second thing is that there are an awful lot of them . |
| 16 | Today they spend much of their time flying to conferences , of which there are an unending supply , particularly those associated with the environment . |
| 17 | There are an awful lot of opportunities around if you can only sniff them out . |
| 18 | ‘ The sons , Kevin and Ian , will be the scapegoats , but there are an awful lot of people in the City who should be searching their consciences . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ There are an increasing number of executives looking to break out of the corporate hierarchy , ’ he said . |
| 20 | And there were prizes galore for everything from swimming — there are an incredible FOUR pools — to mini-golf or skittles or boules or … |
| 21 | There are an incredible variety of possibilities which would take three or four lifetimes of an artist — even using a computer . |
| 22 | There are an estimated 300 million sperms in each ejaculate , of which , of course , only one will eventually fertilize the ovum of the female . |
| 23 | But this traveller 's bible also says that there are an awful lot of buses in Brazil . |
| 24 | There are an infinite number of possible powers to which data can be raised . |
| 25 | ( At one point it was commented that ‘ There are an infinite number of ways of organising our file references , and most of them have been used already ! ’ ) |
| 26 | It has been noted at the NLM that there are an increasing number of end-users — medical practitioners — who are interested in using the MEDLINE system themselves . |
| 27 | As we outlined in our report ( footnote , p 151 ) there are an estimated 7800 full and part-time professional complementary therapists in the UK , which is equivalent to 28 per cent of the number of doctors in general practice . |
| 28 | There are an increasing number of surveys which have looked at individuals over a period of time . |
| 29 | There are an estimated 0.38 hectares per person in the world and that a person on a Western diet needs 0.62 hectares . |
| 30 | There are an awful lot of men who think that their penises droop some way short of the average size . |