Example sentences of "there be [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are production.oriented companies and marketing.oriented companies . |
| 2 | There are folk singers , Morris Dancers , Live Theatre artistes and puppeteers . |
| 3 | There are carp study groups , carp catchers groups , and all other manner of carp worshipping bodies . |
| 4 | This is the seventh one that I 've attended , but no doubt there are people present who 've attended even more . |
| 5 | There are fish fingers in the fridge . |
| 6 | But however plausible the concept of stylistic embellishment appears , even in a favourable case like this there are difficulties.The elaboration of form inevitably brings an elaboration of meaning . |
| 7 | There were only 30m plastic cards in circulation in 1979 — including cheque , credit and cash withdrawal cards — whereas now there are 100m cards in use . |
| 8 | There were infantry Regiments in Djibouti , French Guyana and Mayotte , an island off the coast of Madagascar . |
| 9 | According to Baring Securities , a prominent trader of warrants in Tokyo and London , there were $120.2 billion-worth of Japanese warrant bonds outstanding as of mid-February . |
| 10 | There were fruit trees amongst the flowers , here a pear tree , there a currant bush , so that one could either smell a rose , crush a verbena , or eat a fruit ; there were borders of box , but also of sorrel and chibol ; and the stiff battalion of leeks , shallots , and garlic , the delicate pale-green foliage of the carrot , the aggressive steel-grey leaves of the artichokes , the rows of lettuce which always ran to seed too quickly . |
| 11 | There were fruit trees beyond the grass , and then the fields themselves , and the terraces of tomatoes , vegetables and vines . |
| 12 | It is true that , on occasions last year , there were staff shortages in the intensive care unit at the hospital . |
| 13 | There were staff rackets . |
| 14 | When Margaret Thatcher 's first government came to power there were 14.3m vehicles on the road — there are now more than 19.7m . |
| 15 | There 's stll Rocky and Tinkler in the wings , Wallace can play wide on either side and Speed can play in the middle , so we would still have enough cover . |
| 16 | There 's fruit cake as well as bread and jam . |
| 17 | There 's £10,500 worth of prizes for those of you who are you up to the task . |
| 18 | to , to , there 's people plenty serving God , well actually they 're serving the devil |
| 19 | But there 's , there 's people people holding a shotgun to our heads saying yeah I 'll come and do this job and I want x . |
| 20 | There 's 7% unemployment and the town is punctuated with vacant business premises . |
| 21 | But Mr Collin said : ‘ There is £4,500 provision in next year 's budget for our contribution towards the Neighbourhood Watch coordinator . ’ |
| 22 | The series and parallel arms of the ladder are dual , resonant , reactive networks , their impedances being ; To make the product independent of frequency requires under which condition Satisfaction of condition ( 9.47 ) causes the series and parallel arms to resonate at the same frequency and there is 100% transmission at that frequency . |
| 23 | There is folk music , singing and dancing … ’ |
| 24 | In France there is 40% inheritance tax for children to pay on the estates of their parents . |
| 25 | Apart from legally required publicity there is media publicity which may occur whether the company wants it to or not . |
| 26 | Even lower percentages are estimated for Shorea ovalis ( Dipterocarpaceae ) in Malesia , where there was 83% abortion , possibly due to the failure of pollination , while 90% of the survivors were killed by a single insect predator species before being dropped . |
| 27 | The last group all took the certificate , and there was 100% pass rate . |
| 28 | After whaling died out , there was cod fishing and , in the eighteenth century especially , piracy , when the Atlantic corsairs of Bayonne and Saint-Jean made mighty profits for the local burghers who put up the money to fit them out . |
| 29 | The very co-operative and talkative source also described Macari 's old betting slips , in almost retentive detail , adding ‘ on one occasion he 'd emptied his pockets while in my place , I cleaned up his used betting slips and there was £800 worth . ’ |