Example sentences of "there [be] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitudes of the different students interested Paul ; he was popular among them as a tutor , and had there been women among them , might well have become interested in one of these . |
| 2 | ‘ Have there been attempts on your father 's life before ? ’ |
| 3 | There are families in whom the two conditions coexist raising the possibility that they share a similar genetic predisposition and possibly a common transmissable agent such as a mycobacterium . |
| 4 | But there are limits to its tolerance . |
| 5 | Yet there are limits to their inventive adaptability , limits beyond which we often push them . |
| 6 | Obviously there are limits to what you can achieve , but you will not know what those limits are until you embark upon a programme of good nutritious eating and appropriate exercise . |
| 7 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
| 8 | So , if there are limits to what we can do , and if the development of technology brings costs as well as benefits , we now must face the second question : under what circumstances do we either develop or apply a particular technology ? |
| 9 | In France , as everywhere , there are limits to what is politically possible . |
| 10 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 11 | But there are limits to what such a institution can achieve . |
| 12 | There are limits to what BAT can achieve , but within those limits to what BAT can achieve , but within those limits it is flexible . |
| 13 | Government on these terms is tolerable if the party in power recognises that there are limits to what it is entitled to do . ’ |
| 14 | I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit . |
| 15 | There are limits to what I 'd dare and |
| 16 | There are limits to my craziness . ’ |
| 17 | Like that there are limits to my self-control … ’ |
| 18 | There are advantages for everyone , and most of all for the pupils , in making the transition from class teaching in the primary school to specialist teaching in the secondary school a gradual rather than a sudden one . |
| 19 | So an annuity ca n't fall once you 've bought it it 's guaranteed , so you can see there are advantages to it . |
| 20 | ‘ There are friends of my family who are refugees in America . |
| 21 | There are studies in which neonatal assessment has been made after attempts at randomisation of analgesia during labour . |
| 22 | There are questions about our international obligations to GATT and to the Community . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's always rather difficult to know quite what they are looking for at ACCM and there are fashions in what is acceptable and what not . |
| 24 | It will no doubt have its critics and I would have to admit that there are elements of it I am not happy about . |
| 25 | Where the technique was first practised is unknown , although it is traditionally thought to be of Chinese origin , although there are accounts of it being used in India around 550 BC . |
| 26 | Although these two artists did not meet , there are affinities in their work and director , Andrew Kalman , has selected ten pictures by each of them to make his point ( 15 October-27 November ) . |
| 27 | In doing so , the study will explore whether there is a common pattern across the public sector , irrespective of differences between services , or whether there are divergences between them . |
| 28 | Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation . |
| 29 | Both the singing and the dialogue ( of which there is a good deal ) are expressive and sparkling , though there are times in her two solos , when Christiane Castelli ( Gontran ) seems a little uncertain pitch and fragile of tone . |
| 30 | There are times in our lives when we are particularly vulnerable and can easily be hurt . |