Example sentences of "and [adj] there be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any month in the 1840 's and '50's there were rarely more than live contracts settled up and the figure was usually two or three and sometimes none at all . |
| 2 | Between 1974 and 1986 there were also metropolitan counties , but these were abolished and their powers passed to metropolitan district authorities . |
| 3 | Between 1370 and 1500 there is only one case of a father and son both being aldermen , William Reynwell ( 1397–1403 ) and his son John ( 1416–45 ) ( 104 , pp.363–4 ) , although there are cases when brothers or cousins both held office . |
| 4 | Between 1309 and 1376 there were only twenty-four English curialists when Spain had fifty , the Empire sixty-nine , Italy five hundred and twenty-one and France over fifteen hundred ; under Clement V ( as Anglophile as any pope in this era ) only one Englishman was a member of the papal Curia ; under John XXII no more than nine . |
| 5 | By and large there were almost as many buffaloes as black cattle throughout Kandyan districts , but in the Low Country black cattle outnumbered buffaloes by at least two to one and in some districts by as much as ten to one . |
| 6 | His data show that between 1978 and 1981 there was virtually no storm runoff or soil wash where forest was undisturbed ; similar results were obtained for the catchment in which traditional farming was practised . |
| 7 | But in I S O Nine Thousand and One there is also a thread of quality improvement , in each of the areas which we 're supposed to address . |
| 8 | ‘ In the Fifties and Sixties there was only one fashion , now there are 10,000 — Chanel , you see , is a matter of playing with certain things . |
| 9 | To make the the hinge strong and efficient there are usually complex arrangements of teeth and sockets there , and the arrangement of these articulating devices is very important in identifying the different kinds of clams . |
| 10 | Mr Spelman said : ‘ During the previous recessions of the 1970s and 1980s there was only a slow down in prices . ’ |