Example sentences of "and [vb past] that there [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he remembered the copy of Ruggiero 's letter , and realized that there was something he could do after all . |
| 2 | Briefly he wondered if it could be true , and realised that there was no way to be sure . |
| 3 | She jiggled the receiver and realised that there was no dialling tone . |
| 4 | ‘ I locked the lecture-room , came downstairs and checked that there was no one in the ground-floor rooms , then locked up the building . ’ |
| 5 | If this is what Making Belfast Work is all about , then it showed a lack of concern for real economic development per se and revealed that there was an alternative agenda . |
| 6 | Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better . |
| 7 | Lecointre ( unpublished memoir , DEA , University of Paris VII ( 1989 ) ) has examined sequences of 361 nucleotides of the 5' extremity of 28S rRNA and found that there are only two base-pair positions , out of 361 , common to lampreys and hagfishes : and there is only one position uniquely shared by lampreys and gnathostomes . |
| 8 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 9 | But then I finally stopped resisting and found that there 's a life in the land beyond the life of any one person , Thomas ; the lives of the people only stand in the way . ’ |
| 10 | The jury negatived negligence and found that there was contributory negligence on the plaintiffs ' part , and Hawke J. held that there was no conversion , for the defendants had acted reasonably . |
| 11 | The enormity of such a task has been made obvious by an American psychologist in the 1930s , who worked his way through an unabridged dictionary , and found that there were about eighteen thousand words that could be used to describe people . |
| 12 | Officials compared the judicial statistics with those of India and found that there were proportionately several times more cases in Sri Lanka . |
| 13 | Br. , 1991 , 27 , 821 ) , and believed that there was something important for us there . |
| 14 | He applied it to er the evolution of the cosmos as a whole and indeed to society , and believed that there was an ine inevitable onward and upward tendency of evolution from simple to complex , from isolated to unified , from erm stupid to more intelligent and so on . |
| 15 | The ostrich dug his head in and believed that there was nobody out there who could notice — and if they did , what did it matter ? |
| 16 | The Civic Trust undertook a survey in 1976 and estimated that there were then 104 670 hectares of urban wasteland in Great Britain . |
| 17 | In Birmingham , Newton ( 1976 , chs 3 and 4 ) identified over 4,000 organized groups and estimated that there were probably about twice that number in total . |
| 18 | She started down the street , and noticed that there was some sort of commotion . |
| 19 | A DOCTOR was checking a patient 's eyes with a torch and noted that there was no abnormal pupil dilation . |
| 20 | Writing in the scientific journal Nature , researchers from the University of Victoria , British Columbia , insisted that it was " difficult to express the importance " of their findings , and added that there were no obvious explanations as to why the climate had remained " strangely stable " recently . |
| 21 | " You 're tired , " she said , and added that there was no point in gloom because gloom made everything worse . |
| 22 | The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont said after the meeting that " there was a great feeling of disappointment " concerning economic reform in the Soviet Union , and added that there was no question of the industrialized nations assisting the Soviet Union with its balance of payments . |
| 23 | However , his denials were rejected by Barnard who described himself as a scapegoat and claimed that there was " a cover-up going on from ministerial level down " . |
| 24 | He carried out an observational study of ear , nose , and throat outpatient clinics and showed that there were systematic variations in patient assessment routines among consultants , rooted in differences between the specialists in their informal decision making rules . |
| 25 | In 1987 the House of Commons Environment Committee urged the creation of water protection zones and commented that there was ‘ no place for extended discussion ’ between the DoE and MAFF . |
| 26 | The letter drew attention to particular aspects of all three reports previously referred to and stated that there was " a need for a specific managerial and professional initiative to improve the performance of this function " . |
| 27 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 28 | The report said that the country 's economic management lacked " transparency and accountability " and indicated that there were " inconsistencies " in the government accounts . |
| 29 | Patrick turned over in the bed , and discovered that there was a fire burning in the grate and a breakfast tray on the small side-table beside the bed . |
| 30 | Donna rang the station and discovered that there was a train to King 's Cross leaving at 8.27 p.m . |