Example sentences of "there [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever is there to see at Tuam ? ’ she complained mildly , as we set off : . |
| 2 | for example , to solve any design problem there has at some stage to be a switch from systems thinking to thinking in terms of physical entities because these are the things that can be created , precisely located and manipulated in the real world . |
| 3 | There has at times been a degree of common cause between the PUK and the Iraqi Communist Party ( ICP ) , which was once involved in a national front with the Baath , but subject to repression in recent years . |
| 4 | as if to increase my terror , there came at that instant a pause in the electric war overhead . |
| 5 | The the only slight concern I 've got is there looking at what we 've got here , what we really need to add is something which is relatively short and relatively easy , |
| 6 | Like irony , if it came to the point , of which there seemed at present a good deal to be borne . |
| 7 | Now there look at that lot as well . |
| 8 | It was at this moment that there arrived at AFHQ a " personal " and " urgent " signal for Alexander from Gen McCreery , the Commander of Eighth Army , whose 13 Corps and 5 Corps were directly involved in the front line in North-East Italy and Austria . |
| 9 | Before they left for Raasay , there arrived at the Mackinnons ' a card and two visitors . |
| 10 | there exists at least one other grammatically well-formed and semantically normal sentence S 3 , containing X , but otherwise having no other elements in parallel syntactic positions in common with S 1 , in which X is similarly omissible or replaceable by Y , yielding a syntactically identical but semantically distinct sentence S 4 |
| 11 | In those societies of the late twentieth century in which there exists at least a minimal freedom of expression and association social movements are a means by which members of society can express dissent and opposition in a direct and immediate way , and can challenge the indifference , remoteness or negligence of party machines . |
| 12 | There existed at that time , a real threat of an invasion of the British Isles by the French forces under Napoleon , so militia groups were formed and Martello Towers were erected around the more vulnerable coast line , to ward off and give warning of any sign of an invading fleet . |
| 13 | Although both the USSR and Somalia downplayed the Soviet presence in Berbera , there existed at least a long-range communications station for submarines at Berbera , which formed part of the Soviet nuclear strategic infrastructure . |
| 14 | Recently , there has been a moving together again , but in the 1930s there developed at the University of Chicago a tradition of social research that is now known as the ‘ Chicago School ’ . |
| 15 | In the West End there seems at the moment a tendency to rely too much on the goodwill of actors which is often accompanied by a failure to maintain a true interest in what is going on for the actor . |
| 16 | First , there seems at present less to complain about in most of our primary schools than in secondary or tertiary education . |
| 17 | There seems at this point to be disagreement among the regulationists , with some hypothesizing that the decentralization within Britain was the beginning of a new phase of ( neo-Fordist ) accumulation ( Aglietta , 1979 ; Dunford , Geddes and Perrons , 1981 ) , while others ( Martin , 1988 ; Marshall , 1987 ) clearly see it as an attempt to use geographical restructuring to prolong the life of Fordism . |
| 18 | There seems at present , however , a better prospect of completing the line than for many years . |
| 19 | Though there appears at present to be no early evidence in regard to the allowance of the kadi of Istanbul , a statement in a seventeenth-century source , the by Husayn Hezarfenn ( Hezarfen : d. 1103/1691–2 ) , would seem to indicate that the kadilik of Istanbul was similarly a 300-akce kadilik . |
| 20 | The models behind the sun-baked cellophane smiled with shining teeth or pushed out kissing pouts or let their dewy bottom lip drop ; they arched and twisted and perched , strategic stickers interrupted the full view of their parts , spotted animal skins here and there hinted at biting beasts on the loose . |
| 21 | The result of each one is made known to the voter before he casts his vote in the next , and the series is prolonged until there emerges at the top of the poll a candidate with an absolute majority . |
| 22 | There reigned at No. 10 — and reigns no doubt to this day — the conviction that the press relations people can ‘ fix it ’ the way they are instructed to . |
| 23 | However , even in these cases , it is found that there exist at least distribution valued singularities just at these points . |
| 24 | A deliciously dotty old lady afternoon : the three other researchers there had at least two hundred and fifty years of living between them . |
| 25 | There had at one time , Agnes had told her , been a full complement of horses and hounds , for Sir John had been a keen sportsman . |
| 26 | In other words , there remained at the time of the parliamentary enclosure only half a dozen farmers who wished to build in the new fields . |
| 27 | There is outside the study today a glass cabinet displaying various of Mr Farraday 's ornaments , but throughout Lord Darlington 's days , there stood at that spot a bookshelf containing many volumes of encyclopedia , including a complete set of the Britannica . |