Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [conj] there [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtains were half drawn back , it had stopped raining and there was sunshine . |
| 2 | Rather , to adopt the method involves accepting that there is a ‘ reality ’ , which is as it is independently of what anyone may think of it , but which suitably organized inquiry is fated to discover eventually ; around the early 1870s Peirce speaks of reality as the final cause of inquiry . |
| 3 | And adopting this gender-differentiated methodology involves accepting that there are stable , homogeneous relationships between women and subjectivity , and between men and objectivity : connections that are more likely to be ideological than biological . |
| 4 | This alternative picture involves denying that there is a coherent materialist alternative to the Cartesian ‘ private theatre ’ view of the mind ; but it also involves placing the attack on the Cartesian picture in a wider context . |
| 5 | To take this road is to resort to what I earlier described as the ‘ most primitive physicalist response ’ to the problem , which involves denying that there is anything about the nature of experience that BS does not know . |
| 6 | Some adolescents may need reassuring that there is nothing to be afraid of or ashamed about in night emissions or monthly periods . |
| 7 | I was out but when I got back I tried calling but there was no answer . |
| 8 | The suggestion then is that a fourth clause be added requiring that there be no other truth such that Henry 's believing it would have destroyed his justification for believing that q . |
| 9 | Village life is therefore not as close knit as it once was , which is common in many villages today , but nevertheless local functions held in nearby Harpham village hall are always well attended proving that there is still a sense of community in the area . |
| 10 | So we , we th that , that was er another good thing they , they got going but there was very little for , for nurses to do . |
| 11 | Although saturation kinetics for glucose absorption from human jejunum have been shown suggesting that there is only active glucose transport , there is other evidence suggesting the participation of passibe glucose absorption as well . |
| 12 | With the finishing post in sight , all Swindon have to do is keep going and there are no signs of them letting up . |
| 13 | Not that I knew any foreigners , though I recall thinking that there were two kinds . |
| 14 | I remember saying that there were dangerous days ahead which would call for faithfulness and courage , quoting the text from the Psalms : ‘ He will not be afraid of any evil tidings , for his heart standeth fast in the Lord . ’ |
| 15 | But while the Europeans were prepared to go along with an ultimatum to the Serbs that threatened bombing if there were more belligerency , they would not countenance lifting the arms embargo , which they believe would do more harm than good . |
| 16 | This requires ensuring that there is a basic valuation and considering its contents . |
| 17 | And as if one needed reminding that there 's more to this year 's contest than Karaoke , four of the 11 acts competing were to provide their own original accompaniment . |
| 18 | You have to keep turning until there 's a kind of silken click . ’ |
| 19 | If you are of a competitive nature , most clubs provide the opportunity for you to start racing and there 's no faster way into a pretty good technique than by sailing against more experienced people . |
| 20 | Stirling 's first job was to start recruiting and there were two particular officers he had in mind . |
| 21 | He started chatting and there was nobody else on the bus and I said to him what are they ? |
| 22 | ‘ I just keep wondering if there 's another way of approaching the problem … ’ |
| 23 | Then it all started to get VERY scrappy … the flicks kept coming but there was nobody running one to them . |
| 24 | Is it because it 's a Tuesday , your mother 's gone shopping and there 's only one banana yoghurt left in the fridge , or is it because Channel 4 's new breakfast show is so bad ! ? |
| 25 | ‘ No need to apologise again , Robyn — twice in one evening and I 'll seriously start believing that there 's something wrong with you ! ’ |
| 26 | VOLOPEN indicating that there is more space available on the volume which can be filled on a subsequent run , or |
| 27 | I had to stop watching because there was too much emotion . |
| 28 | Although I was sceptical as to the Brighton affair , I could not help seeing that there was rather a look about Mr Wilson sometimes ; for instance when , as occasionally happened , his wife 's leg was too bad for her to go shopping and he went alone . |
| 29 | So , when on 8 May Acheson announced that the US would send economic and military aid to the French in Indo-China ( for Gaddis Smith , the turning point — ‘ the scales had swayed for three months and then came down hard on the side of France ) the French position was at least potentially desperate and one can not help asking whether there were any countries receiving military aid under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , other than Vietnam , in which there were such powerful revolutionary forces and where a revolutionary war was already in progress . |
| 30 | But social practices only need legitimating if there is some chance that they may be rejected . |