Example sentences of "there [be] precedents for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are precedents for such a move : during the second world war some students and staff from University College Hospital , London , relocated to Cardiff . |
| 2 | There are precedents for such moderate variations in spacer length differences between operator half-sites . |
| 3 | So there are precedents for both our finding that knowledge spread through the electorate as the election approached and that television played a particular role in that process . |
| 4 | The sentencing decision in Billam ( 1986 ) marks out some of the more serious varieties of sexual assault , and this could be used as a basis for introducing a new scheme of three or four graded offences : there are precedents for this in other countries . |
| 5 | Of course there are precedents for this , too , in 19th-century opera ( for example , the last act of Rigoletto ) . |
| 6 | Well , there were precedents for such things ; and if ever a monarch might not rest peacefully in the Fields of Aarru , that man was Akhenaten . |