Example sentences of "[conj] there be [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Where there is evidence from which consent may be inferred , the judge must direct the jury on that point ( R. v.
2 He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences .
3 The early inhabitants had to go where there was grass for their animals to feed on and this mobile existence dictated that the home was some form of tent .
4 The early inhabitants had to go where there was grass for their animals to feed on and this mobile existence dictated that the home was some form of tent .
5 But Hepzibah says if they ever had to leave and go where there were strangers about who did n't understand his sensitive ways , then he might have to be — well — what he said ] ’ He nodded at Frederick and said , in a low voice , ‘ Shut up in a mad house , or something . ’
6 I met her once or twice , at church and at other houses where there were children of our age .
7 Pipeline business is the stuff that you 've sent to head office , been put on the shelf , and has n't issued yet , because of maybe medical in the writing , or there 's complications with it , you know , it 's sat on the shelf , but it has n't actually , the policy has n't wanged itself to the client .
8 Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation .
9 This was held to be incorrect , but irrelevant ; incorrect , because a mere sense of alarm was insufficient to give rise to a fear of a breach of the peace , and irrelevant because the justices had found ( or there was evidence from which they could have found ) that the constables reasonably believed that the defendant 's own behaviour was likely to constitute a breach of the peace .
10 There are questions about knowledge which may , or must , be answered using limited resources , although there is disagreement about what the available resources are .
11 Although there are differences between them , each addresses in its own way the range of concerns sketched in this Introduction .
12 Britain has little to fear because although there are deficiencies in our law it is much better than most .
13 Where the technique was first practised is unknown , although it is traditionally thought to be of Chinese origin , although there are accounts of it being used in India around 550 BC .
14 The attractants appear to change geographically and seasonally , while it is perhaps the blending of compounds that restricts the number of bee species attracted , although there are overlaps between them and the bees ' choices also vary geographically and seasonally .
15 The annexe need not have been roofed , although there was access to it from the main part of the building .
16 She was smiling , although there were tears in her grey eyes .
17 Almost immediately there was trouble with her fellow-travellers on account of her ‘ great weeping and boisterous sobbing ’ , and her continual exhortations to the good life , which she would not cease from even at meals .
18 Further , it is only for the kingdom of the Burgundians that there is evidence for anything like an all-embracing comital structure , and while most , if not all , Merovingian civitates must have had their comites , or in the north , their graphiones , in all probability local administration could vary according to regional tradition and to the will of an individual king , whose main concern was to ensure the loyalty of and to realize the revenues from his civitates .
19 It was noted that campaigns is becoming more important within CA and that there is concern about what this means for CA 's priorities .
20 Does the Attorney-General accept that there is concern about our procedures ?
21 I love airline food and further suspect that there 's money in it somewhere .
22 I mean it could be that there 's air in it somewhere .
23 they 're probably Jewish because they always reckon that there 's people after them and that 's what she 's like
24 No doubt it will very quickly become apparent to the reader that there are differences in their philosophical assumptions that may not be reconcilable .
25 Perhaps the strongest is that there are species in which some females reproduce sexually , and others by parthenogenesis : if there was not a short-term advantage to sex , the parthenogenetic females would long ago have replaced the sexual ones .
26 It will no doubt have its critics and I would have to admit that there are elements of it I am not happy about .
27 In the next section we will argue that there are circumstances under which people selectively pay attention to certain kinds of information in a mental model , even though other information in the model might be used to interpret the current sentence .
28 But it seems safe to say that there are circumstances in which litost and glasnost can be recognised as enemies , and that this enmity can be recognised in the novel Life is elsewhere .
29 All that Montefiore 's example shows is that there are circumstances in which it is unfair to act neutrally , where there are not even prima facie reasons to be neutral .
30 ‘ We do not think it is possible to deny that there are circumstances in which individuals may justifiably choose to enter into a homosexual relationship ... [ although ] such a relationship could not be regarded as the moral or social equivalent of marriage . '
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