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

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1 Well where , where Tony lives there 's that village is over three thousand years old .
2 He did n't doubt there were many others also who had brothers , fathers or sons among the fifty thousand Irishmen slain in the Great War and who had to swallow their grief and mourn in private .
3 In the world into which she intended to soar there was little room for Rhodri Parry .
4 I do n't know there 's another pepper you see
5 Terrible ! and you make a heaps of the field and then that 's the first handling , and then these heaps had to be loaded on to a trailer and then they were all dumped in a big heap at the bottom of the drive , and then we wait till there was a truck for each Stow station and load it all up again , and do you know there 's those forks with big Cumberland Cross on the end , and we 'd load those up , take them to Stow station , and unload it into the waggon .
6 ‘ I do n't know if that shifty old man of mine is ever goin' to be a credit to 'is fam'ly ; I do n't know there 's any man that can spend more time doin' nothing than Archie can .
7 I am aware of it , and I do know there are many breaches of the code .
8 I did n't know there were any politicians on there anyway , politicians .
9 Oh I 'm sorry , but there was only that one which is all , it 's got her latest stuff on it , I 'm not really keen on anything else , it 's got those last , you know the sort of her last few records of it , on it I should say I did n't know there was any others around , when I told you I wanted the Cher one , it was the one that was out now not the old ones .
10 Applying Firth , it is irrelevant that the victim did not know there was any liability .
11 Now , he said , if there 's any question of doubt , he 'll seal it and then the receiver would know there was some question of doubt , and he would seal back the reply .
12 Residents realise there 's little time to deal with a fire …
13 Residents realise there 's little time to deal with a fire …
14 When the second 's about six metres up I realise there 's another line just to the right .
15 I realise there is little chance of the sponsorship suggestion coming about , but there should be some way of assuring that playing for your country does not cost you money in an amateur game that makes a fortune . ’
16 But despite the er , rather individualistic nature of the context used there 's enough flexibility and openness within the subject content , to say .
17 small , medium , I 'm sure that 's what I had , no they feel nice though , I did n't like the feel of the other ones , I expect there 's enough money in there , I 've got me plimsolls to put on
18 Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family .
19 Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ?
20 The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific .
21 At no time in history has there been more opportunity for a middle-class person to rise , yet , at the same time , the possibility of falling to great depths has similarly increased .
22 Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK ( as elsewhere ) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments .
23 Neither has there been any work relating the relaxation of currency controls and the establishment of convertibility within the European Payments Union to changes in the volume and pattern of foreign trade .
24 Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ?
25 With the recent mainstream success of a number of blues albums — John Lee Hooker 's , for instance , and Gary Moore 's — has there been any let-up in the record company pressure on Robert Cray to widen his commercial appeal ?
26 In practice the question therefore resolves itself into : Has there been enough time for enough successive generations ?
27 Stockbrokers say there is little interest in Pilkington shares and today 's figures will lead to little change in a ‘ continuing sell ’ attitude towards shares .
28 I 'll seal to such a bond , And say there is much kindness in the Jew .
29 Yes , I think that 's true , but at the same time there is a debate going on as to whether in fact there 's more violence now than there used to be , some people say there is more violence , other people say that , that erm that 's not the case .
30 While it is undoubtedly true that Hindus say there are many gods they also declare that there is but one God , Iśwara , Devādhideva , who is God of gods .
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