Example sentences of "there is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is but one type of work which police everywhere enjoy , and that is active crime-fighting on the streets ( for example see Ekblom and Heal 1982 ; Ericson 1982 ; Holdaway 1983 ; Manning 1977 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b ; Punch 1979a ; Reiner 1978 , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Yet apart from the story of his binding , a long account of the finding of a wife for him , for the bulk of which he is off stage , and a story about him on his death-bed which is primarily about his sons , Jacob and Esau , there is but one chapter devoted to him ( ch. |
| 3 | The Hebrew scriptures contained prescriptions that enforced a separateness and particularity of the Jewish people , in tension with the universalism of monotheistic belief : if there is but one God , he is Lord of all peoples , even if some of them feel after him more coherently than others . |
| 4 | As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way … |
| 5 | ‘ Well , well , well , Captain , ’ said Mayor Mutton when the laughter ceased , ‘ So you are apprehended at last … caught in the very act of importing illicit French liquor into His Majesty 's Realm , a heinous crime for which there is but one penalty . ’ |
| 6 | Then came a question on the size of the Balm of Gilead Fir in America and which sort of soil suited it best , ‘ for there is but one place , in England , where the trees live more than ten or twelve years . ’ |
| 7 | A labourer and his family — in all eight persons — are the occupiers of this hovel , in which there is but one bedroom for their accommodation . |
| 8 | Easter Island has a temperate climate , and only two tiny beaches far from the sole settlement of Hangaroa , There is but one small hotel ; our preference was for a guest house where we could meet a local family . |
| 9 | While it is undoubtedly true that Hindus say there are many gods they also declare that there is but one God , Iśwara , Devādhideva , who is God of gods . |
| 10 | There is but one restraint on design and that is that the sail height should be greater than 2 metres or 78¾ inches . |
| 11 | There is but one objective — to find the cause of the accident — and all parties are equally interested in establishing that without distortion or national bias . |
| 12 | The first time that we find it is in 36 : They are a We unit , but at once they are split up into two incompatible halves : ‘ In our two loves there is but one respect/Though in our lives a separable spite ’ — that is , some malicious act of fortune keeps them separate . |
| 13 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There is but one ! ’ screamed Fakrid to his gunners . |
| 15 | There is a there is but er er but er er the medium er er as best it could be used was was Spanish you see . |
| 16 | I do n't know what there is but I 'm sure we can rustle something up — ’ He looked at Carolyn . |
| 17 | Outside these areas there is but very patchy support . |
| 18 | There is but one small snag . |
| 19 | Well there is but I mean it 'll take forever to get there ! |
| 20 | There is but I mean it is |
| 21 | But , having said that there is but there are , but there as well ! |
| 22 | I thought there is but I mean before . |
| 23 | It 's absurd really to say that because of automation there is less and less work when you see how much there is that needs doing in the community . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , there is that , ’ Simon acknowledged . |
| 25 | ‘ What you observe there is that in the battleground seats , the seats where this election will be determined , Labour is doing even better than we are in the national , overall polls , ’ he said . |
| 26 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 27 | The main problem there is that a visitor centre was erected which , far from solving the access and erosion problems , has created even greater ones . |
| 28 | A sudden dedication to a foreign influence like Hegel or Derrida , brief but intense , is about the only thing there is that can cause the British to lose a sense of humour or a sense of proportion , and during the first London production of Waiting for Godot in 1955 I was reproached by strangers seated around me for laughing , though I still think it a funny play . |
| 29 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
| 30 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |