Example sentences of "[ex0] be [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.

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1 There are players which sound sharper and clearer , and some ( though very few ) that sound warmer and easier on the ear .
2 There are thousands of examples , and in almost every community today there are families whose surnames show that centuries ago one of their ancestors moved sufficiently far from his own country , town or village , to acquire a place-name reference , and the name adhered .
3 Secondly , there are processes which select certain patterns of motion in preference to others .
4 And there are ones which do not — including Ashkenazy and Haitink ( both on Decca ) and , sadly , the new Slatkin .
5 To a certain extent this is correct , but those who know these waters intimately will perhaps agree that their reputation can be exaggerated , and that there are advantages which other coastlines do not possess .
6 In Difficulties with girls there are passages which recall that lift of the old proud head .
7 Within all three poems there are passages which at least verge on sentimentality .
8 Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’
9 But if one is not fundamentalist ( and not simply working as a literary critic ) then there are questions which need to be brought to the text .
10 Also , as is explained in the Introduction to Part II , in some countries there are statutes which restrict the retention of personal data ( Ross 1993 : 80 ) .
11 ‘ If you add the £4 for a referee , it is a lot of money , and there are teams which will just fold up because they can not find that kind of money .
12 That is rarely , if ever , the case , but there are phenomena which approach it , and which need some thought .
13 Although there are chapters which deal with specific periods or projects such as the Impressionist and vache styles , and the commission for a series of murals for the Knokke Casino , Sylvester has written a thematic rather than chronological account of the artist 's development .
14 There are elements which distinguish social services , and are at the core of the way many social workers operate .
15 Again , there is a tax-free element , and there are exemptions which include transfers between husbands and wives and gifts to charities .
16 It is n't necessary , to give up work at 60 or 65 and there are agencies which specialise in finding either paid or voluntary employment for people after they have officially retired .
17 In one school of thinking , durables , pharmaceutical goods , insurance , etc. , have been christened ‘ information-intensive ’ products , and there are agencies which set out to specialize in this type of product .
18 In addition there are dancers whose forte is to demonstrate the different national styles when Scottish , Polish , Hungarian and other national dances are included in such ballets as Coppélia and Swan Lake .
19 There is clearly no panacea but there are improvements which can be made in almost all work situations , and which all reflect good management .
20 But for this to be achieved there are problems which must be overcome .
21 Many are fixed physical constraints about which relatively little can be done but there are others which , in theory at least , can be overcome .
22 Tappert also lists four experimental cursive script recognition systems , although literature suggests that there are others which he does not mention , or that have appeared since his paper was published .
23 Yet this is the sort of change of which comparatively few people , perhaps , are aware ; there are others which have been more spectacular .
24 There are others which express an attitude towards some thing or state of affairs the existence of which is stated , or at least implied , and which therefore also express a belief in its existence .
25 There are others which have not been like this , but have achieved positive things for their members and for their societies , such as democratic socialist parties .
26 Some of these , no doubt , are very satisfactory to us in our present state of opinion about the constitution of bodies , but there are others which are likely to startle us out of our complacency and perhaps ultimately to drive us out of all the hypotheses in which we have hitherto found refuge into that thoroughly conscious ignorance which is a prelude to every real advance.in knowledge .
27 Some fungi succumb to the first heavy frosts , but there are others which seem to thrive in cold , wet weather .
28 Then there are others which are just common sense .
29 There are others which are open to anyone who has the ingenuity to think of them .
30 And there are others which can take on theological dimensions .
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