Example sentences of "there be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bright sunlight precluded any need of umbrellas , but had there been one , its handle would inevitably have been chewed through , as happened in the immortal 1882 Ashes match at The Oval . |
| 2 | Had n't there been something in that book about Graham Young ? |
| 3 | There certainly was n't time for thought just now , and had there been I 'd probably have been sick . ’ |
| 4 | Has there been anyone , Lillee or Holding or Marshall to match him since ? |
| 5 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 6 | One early writer , John of Damascus , said : ‘ Had there been anything of me not assumed ( by the Word of God ) it would not have been saved , . |
| 7 | Never before in the whole history of Fleet Street has there been anything like it . |
| 8 | ‘ Why has n't there been anything in the papers ? |
| 9 | ‘ Has there been anything ? ’ |
| 10 | Has n't there been anything on the news ? |
| 11 | And er then they 're not going to let anybody go there are they ? |
| 12 | Good , I 'm just checking you see , making sure there all there are they , all present and correct ? |
| 13 | First , and most important , there are its assumptions about the nature and meaning of working-class crime ; second , the view that ‘ real ’ crime is located in the activities of the ruling class ; and finally , there is its particular version of the causes of and cures for crime . |
| 14 | First , there is the utter incompetence of the Government 's management of the economy ; secondly , there are its housing policies , described in The Independent as ’ a disaster waiting to happen ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ There are them that divv n't like it , ’ she said , dogged , as he was to discover , by honesty . |
| 16 | But there are what they refer to as the ‘ problem families ’ . |
| 17 | On the other hand , there are what might be termed the ‘ recreational ’ users , those who were still in the ‘ experimental ’ stage . |
| 18 | Both conservative Christians and , more surprisingly , Christian feminists suggest that there are what might be called counterbalances to Christology in the form of female figures or feminine motifs present in Christian theology . |
| 19 | Firstly there are what are usually termed onomatopoeic phonetic sequences : with these it is often difficult to define their exact limits . |
| 20 | Happily , there are what the ski people call " nursery slopes ' . |
| 21 | There are what economists call ‘ efficiency ’ reasons , in addition to the obvious grounds of equity , to be concerned about the relative economic weakness of women . |
| 22 | Quite apart from my visitors and my new friends , some of whom whisk me away to stay for the weekend , there are what you could call my ‘ professional engagements ’ . |
| 23 | We follow the building of the hotel , we follow the bank robbers ’ plans , and at the end of the book there are what I hope are some not too implausible twists and turns . ’ |
| 24 | On the east side of Scotland , in Sutherland , there are what are — to me — the most exciting deposits in the British jurassic . |
| 25 | There are what I have called political uses of assessment and there are educational uses . |
| 26 | Domesday Book shows that this could indeed be eleventh-century practice , and there are what look like references to it in Wulfstan 's legal text II Cnut and the rubric of one of Cnut 's charters . |
| 27 | First , there are what may be termed contractual techniques which are arrived at by agreement between the parties . |
| 28 | Whatever numbers there are what are they for ? |
| 29 | And they had a double box for three pounds six or something and there are what at Woolies they 're about three fifty six so you 're saving fifty P . |
| 30 | Hi there are we on the air ? |