Example sentences of "and there be [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Of course , not everyone lives in a nuclear family , and there are families where the costs are shared equally or nearly so , or where the housing tenure is held jointly by both partners , but they are not the norm .
2 But it has not always been so , and there are occasions when the perennial justification of the over-riding interests of the security of the state re-emerges into public view .
3 Mountains fell and there were mountains again the next day .
4 Soon the curtains were drawn by four o'clock and there were days when the mist and rain so muffled the sounds of the world outside that there was almost complete silence .
5 Like the key which Eddie had given to Melissa , the lock was new and there were marks where the paint had been disturbed .
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