Example sentences of "[noun sg] [ex0] [is] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , they underestimate the amount of opposition there is from some groups of men to women getting good jobs .
2 He said : ‘ Many of our colleagues think we are sheltering behind the Danes because of the opposition there is in part of Parliament . ’
3 And I do n't see what harm there is in buying a place for my daughter .
4 Despite the formidable obstacles that face a fully-fledged software preservation programme there is at least one modest but significant programme of software acquisition that is technically achievable and that has affordable resource implications , namely , software for personal computers — ‘ shrink-wrapped ’ consumer software as well as custom-written special applications software .
5 Erm I I I would obviously take very seriously the N R A responsibilities but I think you 've got to bear in mind there 's within the water act , there 's a thing called infrastructure charges
6 With more than one fifth of the world 's population living in China , the agricultural industry there is of considerable interest , and collaborative research on agriculture could be of benefit to all the partners involved .
7 OPPOSITE PAGE , BOTTOM PHOTOGRAPH There is in fact no evidence to suggest that the Druids existed when Stonehenge was first constructed , yet modern-day Druidic cults still seek to worship there .
8 We have to understand the pleasure there is for women in such fantasies .
9 I 'll teach you what pleasure there is in making love and I 'll give you all the time you need to adjust to your new circumstances . "
10 The University Staff Art Exhibition in May was in a class of its own , reminding us all of the talent there is on campus .
11 By real guitarists I mean people like Hubert Sumlin , Cesar Rosas , Dave Hidalgo , Corrado Rustici , James Calvin Wilsey , and the host of mind-blowing talent there is in London alone .
12 If the day is overcast , where possible shoot with whatever light there is behind you as this will maximise the exposure and help prevent the colours from becoming washed-out and muddy .
13 The fighting there is from building to building and at night , often hand-to-hand with knives .
14 Accountants may not realize how much confusion there is amongst non-financial colleagues about basic accounting concepts .
15 Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will
16 But with the foreign exchange shortages in many developing countries , I do not see what alternative there is in the long term .
17 He 's in a sense living there is in indictment of an attitude and the love and the care that the church and a society that proclaims to be civilized has for itself , and I think we 'll have to leave it there .
18 Listening to the Finale in particular , I was struck by the lack of driving force there is behind it in this performance .
19 I ask Rachel what kind of work there is for a woman alone with two kids .
20 ‘ Men should not be found in sufficient numbers to do all the work there is to be done , and wages would rise as they should do ! ’
21 In any social formation there is at least one class which , by virtue of its various determinations , is dominant in the sense that it is better placed to realise its interests than its rivals .
22 Gumperz warns " whatever patterning there is in this type of code switching can not be explained by generalized rules relating conversational functions to instances of code use " ( 1982 : 83 ) .
23 What skill there is in gift wrapping !
24 Whatever disagreement there is about the internal divisions of the texts in the manuscripts , the whole treatise has a shape .
25 The emphasis was on judgement and discussion rather than precise measurement , but Allen said , ‘ It is surprising how little disagreement there is in positioning of our businesses on this matrix each year . ’
26 What a yet unspoken poetry there is in that very sanitary reform !
27 For Kathmandu the marathon is one of the biggest … grandest sporting events of the year and what a welcome there is for Ieuan Ellis as he races down the straight of the national stadium to win in a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and five seconds …
28 Clearly , what humanity there is in Bentham is very much aggregate humanity ; his willingness to sacrifice individual humanity to achieve it is legendary .
29 We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period .
30 What joy there is in looking for these images !
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