Example sentences of "there be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many prime ministers have there been during the reign of Elizabeth II |
| 2 | How many by-elections have there been during the 1987–92 Parliament ? |
| 3 | How many have there been since then ? |
| 4 | What benefit has there been from the Doctus exercise apart from cutting the number of jobs ? |
| 5 | Neither before , nor after , the second world war , has there been in Great Britain an extreme-right movement comparable to those elsewhere in Europe . |
| 6 | How many teams have there been in the leagues anyone has played in ? |
| 7 | If I had time I would like to make a collection of the many stories there are about great conductors because I think there is much to be learnt from them . |
| 8 | A modern computer can count somewhere between 10 6 and 10 9 numbers per second and there are about 3–16 X 10 7 seconds in a year . |
| 9 | THERE ARE ABOUT one and a half million different kinds of life forms on the planet today . |
| 10 | Wind the bobbin with 24-turns of 18s.w.g. enamelled wire , keeping it neatly in layers ( there are about 1½ layers involved ) and bring out the wire ends down through the bobbin slots in the positions shown in Fig. 8 . |
| 11 | Seem to disobey all laws there are about parking . |
| 12 | There are about 20–40 confirmed cases of toxic shock syndrome a year in the United Kingdom , not all of them associated with menstruation , and with three or four fatal cases . |
| 13 | Bear in mind that Nottinghamshire is quite a large county there are about one million people living in Nottinghamshire . |
| 14 | She says that one reason for her not going out is that upstairs there are about one thousand people assaulting children . |
| 15 | ‘ I wanted to find out how many of these damned Twenty-fourthers there are about the place . ’ |
| 16 | There are about 1 billion Indians , about half of who were at Madras airport offering to carry my bags . |
| 17 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 18 | There are about another forty things that you can get , you know , for this particular er , binder . |
| 19 | Can I jump from this , they 're all interconnected , over to question of magistrates , one of the questions in the notes , really , it points out that there are about , not quite , but er , about two third of magistrates are men , and about a third women , erm , is there , is that because of history , and shall , because they 're are more women than men , I mean logically , because there are more women than men in the community , there should be more women magistrates than men , should n't there , on the on the basis of presentation , I take it that , I do n't know the figures , but I take it that er , more and more women now are er , being , accepting , the called , of course , to be magistrate , you did n't have any choice once , do you in a way . |
| 20 | In Kuwait there are about how many Palestinians ? |
| 21 | The CIBA-GEIGY Works at Duxford is not affected by these regulations because the quantities of chemicals stored there are below the minimum levels set under the CIMAH regulations . |
| 22 | You have a set of notes here now I 'm not gon na start at page one and work right through to page whatever it is erm they are there for you to take away for you to make notes during these two days er and for you to take away so that they 're they 're for revision and er there are as Bob 's just discovering pages where a I 'll ask you to make make specific notes er that I 'll supply to you as we go along . |
| 23 | There are on average 47 days of air frost a year at Stornoway , 33 in Benbecula , and an estimated 20 in Barra . |
| 24 | It must not be forgotten , however , that gonorrhoea in young boys and girls can also be acquired sexually , and there are on record cases of boys and girls as young as five years old who have caught the infection in this way . |
| 25 | The greater the variety of non-academic and pre-vocational examinations there are on offer , the easier it may be to progress in this direction . |
| 26 | Notice what shades of colour there are on the water and look at your wake as it shoots from under the board . |
| 27 | If someone asks ‘ How much of X do we have in stock ? ’ they want to know how many of a specific item there are on the premises — both on the shop floor and in the warehouse or storeroom . |
| 28 | There are far fewer organic farmers concentrating on livestock then there are on arable and vegetable crops . |
| 29 | On the other hand there are on that road , which Frodo takes , thousands of intersections , as also thousands of choices to be made or rejected . |
| 30 | In fact there are on these computers at least four word-oriented data-types ; instructions are provided for fixed-point binary arithmetic on 16-bit half-words ( 2 consecutive bytes ) as well as 32-bit words ( or full-words ) , and for floating-point arithmetic on 32-bit words and 64-bit double words ( 8 consecutive bytes ) . |