Example sentences of "[vb past] there be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He maintained there was only one way to resolve differences within the party leadership over Labour 's policy towards a privatised water industry : ‘ Take water back without compensation . ’ |
| 2 | Conyers evidently formed a bridge between the Middleham affinity and its new lord : the first men whom Gloucester retained there were virtually all kinsmen of Sir John . |
| 3 | Conyers evidently formed a bridge between the Middleham affinity and its new lord : the first men whom Gloucester retained there were virtually all kinsmen of Sir John . |
| 4 | The choice of 6 January for this purpose has been traced back to the gnostic Christians of Egypt , the corresponding date in the calendar used there being traditionally associated with the blessing of the Nile . |
| 5 | However , as discussed in Part B of this report , we found there is increasingly debate as to the overall benefits of such centralised operations ( and , indeed , of the notion of head office-based corporate planning departments per se ) . |
| 6 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 7 | When I got to the classroom , I found there were only about six students in the class , and we chatted idly until the lecturer arrived . |
| 8 | Robbie flinched , tried to retreat and once again found there was nowhere to retreat to . |
| 9 | But she found there was no escaping the front line … |
| 10 | However I found there was always something new to overcome . |
| 11 | Finally the critical element in outcome is effectiveness but as already mentioned there are still big gaps in our knowledge of the effects of many procedures both at the individual and population level . |
| 12 | By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school . |
| 13 | But he believed there was still enormous potential from operations in the UK and overseas to develop a world-class company . |
| 14 | They were aware that in a deep way Jesus had dealt a death blow to sin and death , but they believed there was more to it than that . |
| 15 | If he truly believed there was more to her actions , if he had married her to protect her life or reputation , why could n't he spare a few insignificant minutes to listen to her now ? |
| 16 | Sir David added there are very expensive costs to the university and ultimately the taxpayer from closing the dental school . |
| 17 | In practice , whatever the solution adopted there is always an uncomfortable shifting of gears in the movement from one of these perspectives to the other : nor does the assertion of this or that ‘ homology ’ between style and narrative do much more than to pronounce resolved in advance the dilemma for which it was supposed to provide a working answer . |
| 18 | Hugh Gentleman , who conducted the research , said in his report that it was difficult to gauge precise numbers of New Age travellers — as opposed to traditional travellers — in Scotland , but he estimated there were about 60 households . |
| 19 | More recently the largest concentrations noted there were about 200 on 4 December 1967 , and 30 December 1968 , and concentrations of up to 150 have been seen off the coast between Brighton and Rottingdean . |
| 20 | There were lives to keep , yes , valuable to their lords and their wives alike , but he had learned warfare in another school , and without the shock of arms and the life staked there was no savour . |
| 21 | Nevertheless he will be required to introduce more variety into his boxing and before the end came there were once again serious doubts about his stamina . |
| 22 | It seemed there was never enough time to catch up , and I badly needed Charlie to return and take the shop off my hands . |
| 23 | I noticed there were very few there yesterday . |
| 24 | They confirmed there was substantially greater homogeneity of demand within suburbs located near many other communities . |
| 25 | The Regia Aeronautica was quick to reclaim its airfields on the island , and by mid May the force assembled there was once more quite impressive : ( *the Reggiane Re 2000s were a test batch of the first pre-production examples of this little monoplane fighter . ) |
| 26 | When he arrived there were disappointingly few people and he felt rather obvious holding on to a rolled-up newspaper . |
| 27 | When we arrived there were only about 20 people in the audience and he was n't dressed in a dress . |
| 28 | Virginia Matthews , Consumer Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reckoned there were almost eleven million store cards in circulation in Britain in December 1989 with an average APR of 34.5 per cent which compared unfavourably with the 29.8 per cent charged by Barclaycard . |
| 29 | Like the Channel Four programme on Thursday , which explores the secret life of the photocopier , John 's workshops showed there is far more to the machine than duplicating documents and jamming the paper . |
| 30 | The showed there was absolutely nothing here . |