Example sentences of "that there be [det] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not sure that there are many things suitable for men , though , ’ she added , looking helplessly at the aprons , bed jackets and hand-knitted babies ' woollens . |
| 2 | But those who find these positions unattractive will have to look further if they want to say that there are such things as knowledge or justified belief . |
| 3 | 6.2 We agree with Bolinger that there are such things as distinctively sense-qualifying adjectives ( although not many of them , and certainly only a small proportion of those that he suggests ) ; we shall take the view that these are restricted to prenominal attributive position , with predicative position reserved solely for referent-qualification . |
| 4 | It 's just that there are some things the mind-set is not adjusted to and I was tuned in for bracing winds , long place names and snatches of Tom Jones . |
| 5 | It can still be said , he suggests , ‘ that there are some things capable of being known , though they are still not ones that can be known with an Aristotelian knowledge , but only experientially , or according to appearances ’ . |
| 6 | Heseltine 's vision was of ‘ partnerships which recognise that there are some things that only governments can pay for , but also that the ingenuity and flexibility of the private sector is indispensable ’ ( p. 156 ) . |
| 7 | But until you 're really big you 've just got to realise that there are some things worth paying money for and some things that are n't . |
| 8 | Could it be — and this will shock the glossy posse at Esquire — that there are some things in life more important than fashion ? |
| 9 | The trouble is that there are some things even X-rays , penetrating as they are , can not reveal . |
| 10 | But Betty also knew that there are some things better left unsaid , no matter what the circumstances . |
| 11 | There is also er as , as well as recognizing that there are some things that perhaps we might have er concluded , but because of the er nature of the definition have fallen outside inclusion of this report . |
| 12 | And what we in fact the the reason we tell people everything on the phone Ron is that there are some things that pen I did have one here , |
| 13 | That there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in our understanding . |
| 14 | While Nana denied that there were such things as duppies and forbade Martha to look under her old iron cot for them before she went to bed , Mada Joyce was expert on ghouls , ghosts , spirits and apparitions of all kinds , and had known a woman in another village who had actually seen the skinless old hag who sucked babies ' blood reach into the cradle of her new-born child and disappear with a shriek when she touched the Bible on the infant 's pillow . |
| 15 | Lord Geraint , the former MP who has had a lifetime 's experience as a sheep farmer and dealer , warned however that there were many things to be done again to safeguard the interests of those about to start farming . |
| 16 | It 's just that there were some things I needed to clear up with her about her husband 's estate . |
| 17 | ‘ Men that are much fixed upon matter … may … forget that there be such things in the world as Spirits … and at last that there is a God , and that their souls are immortal . ’ |
| 18 | That the argument will not do as it stands is , in fact , conceded in the Three Dialogues , where Berkeley allows Hylas to make the point that , although the existence of a sensible thing might consist in its being perceivable ( as in the premiss ) , it does not ( a fixed upon matter … may … forget that there be such things in the world as Spirits … and at last that there is a God , and that their souls are immortal . ’ |