Example sentences of "[noun sg] there be more [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Mabuni loved kata , and as a result there are more than 60 in the style .
2 It seemed to him that in her gentle gaze there was more than a hint of despair , and it grieved him .
3 If you intend to use the language of flowers to send a message on your card or picture it might be a good idea to put a rough translation on the back or inside the card to avoid confusion , just in case there is more than one meaning for a particular flower !
4 Whatever flower you choose , it is a good idea to write the meaning next to it , in case there is more than one and your good intentions lead to a misunderstanding !
5 Because of the complexity of the polymer there were more than a thousand peaks or data points per sample but Burmester reduced this vast amount of information by computer clustering .
6 AS Stephen Hendry bent over the table to line up another shot there was more than victory at stake — he was literally taking his life in his hands .
7 York is of course home to one of Britain 's oldest and best racecourses and this year there is more than £2 million prize money at stake during the various meetings .
8 In the meantime there 's more and more going bust every week !
9 Until this century there were more than 500 languages in New Guinea , murderous xenophobia between adjoining tribes , and 50,000 people in its Central Valley who learned only in 1934 that there was an outside world .
10 At the British Telecom satellite station at Goonhilly in Cornwall at any given time there are more than 30,000 separate circuits in use while the new fibre-optical cable laid across the Atlantic in December 1988 can handle up to 40,000 separate conversations .
11 There was a body of evidence that established that at the material time there was more than a normal commercial incentive influencing the actions of Bunn .
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