Example sentences of "there are [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are probably a great many parks and recreation grounds that were given to local authorities by local benefactors or acquired by public subscription where the wording in the deeds implies that there is a charitable trust . |
| 2 | I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much . |
| 3 | There are probably a number of books with the Coats bookplate , many in Gaelic , to be found in private collections . |
| 4 | There are even a few herrings for good measure . |
| 5 | Here , there are no strictly male or female tasks or roles ( there are even a few female ‘ headmen ’ ) ; there are no purely male or female personality attributes ; there is no gender difference in access to ritual knowledge , no ‘ men 's clubs ’ or ‘ men 's houses ’ ; and there are no puberty rites or other rites of passage defining differential ideals of manhood and womanhood . |
| 6 | There are even a few who I 'm sure do n't have a care in the world , although I 'm almost prepared to stick my neck out and say that they 're in the minority . |
| 7 | For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works . |
| 8 | They may encompass whole villages or a small hamlet in which there are just a scattering of modest but pretty cottages and a few barns . |
| 9 | If there are just a few of them write down their full names , titles and relevant facts about their background and attitudes . |
| 10 | Now there are just a few but they are large modern deep-sea trawlers , with more comfortable quarters — and some can freeze the fish at sea off Iceland , Canada or Norway . |
| 11 | He explained that ‘ As far as laboratory chemists are concerned there are just a few specific uses [ for tetra ] — they have tended to avoid it because of the toxicity ’ . |
| 12 | There are just a few questions and we 'll let you go back to the Vicarage . |
| 13 | Even more remarkable is the fact that across the personal computer platforms there are just a handful of players and products that are accepted . |
| 14 | But there are just a couple that — ’ |
| 15 | Erm there are just a couple of points that the director has n't touched on erm because they 're probably outside his direct remit . |
| 16 | In this battle , thankfully , there are just a few bruises |
| 17 | There are just a few questions I 'd like to ask you . |
| 18 | There are also a lot of advantages in acquisition accountancy which can provide a sort of beer mat for the first years while you are trying to put the businesses together , and of course we did n't have these in the merger . |
| 19 | Before the war they were split between two empires : Ottoman and Persian After 1925 they were split between four states : Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria ( there are also a few Kurds in the Soviet Union ) . |
| 20 | There are also a range of approaches which offer more personalized forms of help to people in difficulties without the stigma of becoming a client . |
| 21 | Just outside Kos town , the Atlantis II is in a quiet spot only ten minutes walk from the discos and twenty minutes to the town centre and there are also a few bars and restaurants nearby . |
| 22 | There are also a couple of discos for the younger element . |
| 23 | There are also a few indoor pools . |
| 24 | In addition to the purely chemical agents there are also a number of abrasives which , in powder form , are frequently mixed with detergents . |
| 25 | There are also a few special sailors ' clinics in ports , but even so two-thirds of patients will be seen and treated by private practitioners . |
| 26 | There are also a large number of tactical decisions to be made as you sail upwind . |
| 27 | But as the development officer said , ‘ there are also a lot of people in need , so it 's very easy for someone to fall through the net ’ . |
| 28 | There are also a few ‘ elite ’ schools mainly former white boarding schools . |
| 29 | The majority of comments below relate , therefore , to the online services , but there are also a group of comments on external libraries , on external information services , and two miscellaneous comments . |
| 30 | There are also a range of organisms , notably bacteria , fungi and viruses , which produce fatal infections in many insect species , and which have a restricted range of host species . |