Example sentences of "there be [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there are on these computers at least four word-oriented data-types ; instructions are provided for fixed-point binary arithmetic on 16-bit half-words ( 2 consecutive bytes ) as well as 32-bit words ( or full-words ) , and for floating-point arithmetic on 32-bit words and 64-bit double words ( 8 consecutive bytes ) . |
| 2 | There are times these days when I feel so starved of warmth that the instructions on a painkiller packet or vitamin tub ( " At the first sign of a cold developing be sure to … " ) can make me go all husky and brave . |
| 3 | There are after all occasions when words do very well on their own . |
| 4 | There are in all governments between the Treasury and spending ministers . |
| 5 | In addition , and in response to rapidly dwindling forest resources , there are in many nations afforestation programmes on both small and large scales . |
| 6 | Bishop Konstant told the TV reporter : ‘ It is an area where there are great needs , as there are in many parts of Leeds , great social needs — but I think the publicity it has been getting recently is quite unbalanced and it is a good thing to see another side to it . |
| 7 | These have been possible because the portraits of Roman emperors of the first two centuries AD were , for the most part , strongly individualised and because portraits in the round have survived in large numbers — there are in some cases well over a hundred examples for each emperor . |
| 8 | On the other hand , there are in some cases statements of principle in general terms , which do not form part of the ratio decidendi and in others statements in dissenting judgments which it seems to me should be considered when the present question has to be resolved . |
| 9 | One way of conceiving of this is that in any period there are in some islands a greater than average number of demanders , and in others a smaller number than average . |
| 10 | yeah , they all , I always take one and I 'm always pleasantly surprised usually by the amount of gear there are in these places |
| 11 | What better place than their gloomy underworld could there be for such beliefs ? |
| 12 | Between July and November 1916 on this front there were on both sides three million men in arms , of which the dead , wounded and shell-shocked would amount to one million two hundred thousand . |
| 13 | And , if there were times those qualities seemed exaggerated , she understood . |
| 14 | Professor Dudek had envisaged the series coming out in paper covers ( the format that was just becoming the way to the mass market ) ; Leonard ensured that it went into hard ; Dudek had not meant the books to be prestigious in format but vehicles of introduction ; Leonard saw to it that his book could stand alongside the best that there were from both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 15 | More significantly , in many districts there were in most villages several households which depended on cattle stealing for their livelihood . |
| 16 | Says Bob , ‘ It 's amazing how much co-operation and support there is between these growers . ’ |
| 17 | Therefore the more subjects that can benefit , the greater the chance there is of such visits taking place . |
| 18 | If this seem an over-long prologue , think how little discussion there is of these things . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , and particularly south of the equator , the sea rules : north of 84° there is no land at all , and between 45°S and the Antarctic Circle there is to all intents and purposes none either ( just The Bluffs in New Zealand , a sliver of Patagonia and a few islands , unshakable relics of the British empire ) . |
| 20 | I 'm not sure you could take a tabloid in this direction I 'm about to propose that would also appeal to some popular customers , but it 's like , last night everyone was reminiscing about Type ninety and the high points and one of the things that came out in conversation was that there was enormous amount of sex going on which I suppose there is at all conferences , you know , but this one seemed to be , you know , the randiest conference in recent memory . |
| 21 | There is at these times a hot , sweet taste on my tongue , the taste of blood . |
| 22 | Added to this , there is within many authorities , a strong tradition of a culture of secrecy . |
| 23 | In the light of the nearly universal trend towards earlier age at menarche and the rising age at marriage , there is in many countries a resulting larger gap in time between sexual and social maturity and between fecundable age and the ages at which childbearing becomes socially desirable . |
| 24 | There is in many societies a strong economic , political and psychic advantage in having male children , so the proposition of preventing any births , precludes that possibility , and those benefits are perceived to be real as soon as the ( male ) child is born . |
| 25 | There is in many police forces a group or section whose role is entirely and explicitly political . |
| 26 | Thus , there is in these Articles , a recognition that individual governments have a role to play in combating the vagaries of the economic system within their own boundaries . |
| 27 | ( There is in some machines a lower level called microcode but this need not concern us here . ) |
| 28 | Crossing the hind part of the cranium there is in some insects an occipital suture . |
| 29 | Although the tracheation of the pupal wings has yielded important data for ascertaining the homologies of the wing-veins of the adults , there is in some orders ( e.g. Trichoptera ) a wide divergence between the two systems . |
| 30 | However , they underestimate the amount of opposition there is from some groups of men to women getting good jobs . |