Example sentences of "be plenty [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 There are plenty of interfering factors but these are inevitably to some extent weakened by a rational understanding of them , at least when this engages appropriately with our basic conatus ( or effort to preserve our own nature ) and thereby acquires the requisite emotional power .
2 There are just two comfortable and well-appointed apartments available at the Residence Elena and outside the building there are plenty of sitting areas — all around and under the mulberry trees where chicken and ducks cluck and quack away contentedly .
3 Unfortunately for Brazil , even if the economics ministry succeeds in uniting the country 's industry behind quotas , there will be plenty of arguing before any international system can be set up .
4 There were plenty of eating places about the heart of the city .
5 There were plenty of filing cabinets , with half-full bottles , and an empty water cooler that I evidently kept as an excuse to have a tower of paper cups .
6 There is plenty of shipping in the Crouch .
7 Curled alongside the mighty Rhine there 's plenty of messing about on the river to do , and the hospitality would certainly help when entertaining Mr. Toad .
8 And from soccer to speedway , the season starts tomorrow and there 's plenty of racing this weekend .
9 There was plenty of tooting going on already .
10 Gradually , over the years , the colour of the breed became darker through mahogany to black , and there was plenty of crossing to the Hereford for its grazing characteristics and to the Ayrshire to restore milk yields .
11 There was plenty of crossing with Jerseys and Friesians in the 1960s and 1970s , so that the pure Swedish Mountain is now rare .
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