Example sentences of "[v-ing] [subord] there [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face flamed and she glared at him , wondering if there was n't a grain of truth in what he said . |
| 2 | Often sounding like there 's no one driving , Mark 's recipe for recording involves bringing the barest bones of a song into the studio , letting the musicians bend it , stretch it , squash it , cook it and generally rip it to shreds , before setting about trying to sort out the sparks from the farts . |
| 3 | The inevitable conclusion which will be jumped to is that he is going because there is about to be some momentous U-turn over Maastricht now that Britain 's presidency of the EC is over . |
| 4 | The name documentation is deceiving as there is very little paperwork and the department 's tools are computers and the software packages MINISIS and QUIXIS . |
| 5 | This has caused a certain amount of wrangling , with those stalwarts who had been at Down Royal through thick and thin — mostly thin — complaining because there were now too many layers to be accommodated . |
| 6 | Mrs Young appealed to Nell , asking if there was anywhere else that Xanthe could sleep , and Nell , consulting the ever-present clipboard , shook her head doubtfully . |
| 7 | The scope of the present debate will now be expanded by examining whether there are more substantial grounds than those so far considered for regarding companies as ‘ private ’ bodies . |
| 8 | It is in both the firm 's and the consumer s interests that this is for some extended period : in the case of the latter because search costs ( presumably ) are finite and so will not be worth incurring if there is only some probability of finding low prices , unless the benefits are substantial . |
| 9 | She added that the number of people who opted for cremation was increasing although there was still a section of society to whom cremation was unthinkable . |
| 10 | A visual mean of basal UOS pressure was determined from each edited minute of tracing if there were more than 14 seconds remaining after editing . |
| 11 | I thought you might stand a better chance of winning if there were n't enough votes . |
| 12 | Alright , and perhaps the reason why people are migrating when there is very high unemployment is because they do n't realize that there is such high unemployment . |
| 13 | I had to stop watching because there was too much emotion . |
| 14 | Although Rosa Guy 's style also contains energy , hope , imaginative descriptions and sadness , there are no contrasts between happy and sad scenes seeing as there are n't any happy scenes and although Rosa Guy has chosen to write a book on a very serious topic , I do n't think any really stylish book can be without a hint of happiness . |
| 15 | It is the simplest and cheapest way of injecting since there is generally a slurry tanker already on the farm . |