Example sentences of "there are the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most , most criminals do n't want to get caught but there are the odd exceptions who are a bit idiotic er but we erm they 're very rare and usually high on drugs on something like that , but we 're just your ordinary sort of down and out type criminal who wants to break in some way . |
| 2 | There are the odd ones when Bill sells them I hide them somewhere and he 'll say ’ It 's got to go , it 's got to go ! |
| 3 | I think there 's a pride that , that the majority of firemen are , are fairly clean and smart erm there are the odd ones that have to be told but it 's not the same sort of discipline now as there was , and I 'm not sure whether it 's right or wrong , all I see I , I enjoy the discipline when I had it , I sometimes wish it was brought back but er it 's not the time now it seems for that type of discipline , so I think they manage well but er I would like to see a little more but perhaps I 'm a bit old fashioned . |
| 4 | There are the teenage hookers in the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal and the beach gang with their guns in Recife ; there are the granite-quarry labourers in Bangalore and the Ugandan child soldiers toughened by the Luwero Triangle massacres . |
| 5 | And there are the future situations I sit on the bed here and think about : my utter love for some man ; I know I ca n't do things like love by halves , I know I have love pent up in me , I shall throw myself away , lose my heart and my body and my mind and soul to some cad like G.P. Who 'll betray me . |
| 6 | Then there are the environmental costs . |
| 7 | Russia also tends to have no class range there are the educated rich and the uneducated poor . |
| 8 | Then , of course , there are the normal , daily stresses of just being . |
| 9 | Then there are the changing relations between each . |
| 10 | Then there are the changing images of men — men with babies , semi-naked men portrayed as objects of desire — as seen in the media . |
| 11 | Then there are the lost continents . |
| 12 | Then there are the lost consonants . |
| 13 | There are the lost jobs , the lost money and the lost prestige as London battles to maintain its reputation among the world 's financial centres . |
| 14 | There are the various clichés about Dudley Moore , and you ca n't avoid them . ’ |
| 15 | You start off with a stimulus , which is here , there are the various bits that feed into the feature detectors . |
| 16 | A third witness , you understand , adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner , and a fourth thinner still , and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality , the name we give to the common experience … |
| 17 | Then there are the man-made drought problems — banks which slope towards the sough , sunny walls , terraces or patios — all are often inhospitable to plant life because they have been designed as suntraps . |
| 18 | Then , of course , there are the regular instances of inflammable cuddly toys , faulty tree lights and cut-price presents that can kill . |
| 19 | There are periodic official surveys of courses in particular subjects or fields , usually when major changes are being contemplated ( as at present ) , and there are the regular activities of CNAA committees and boards and their counterparts , such as they are , on the university side of the binary line . |
| 20 | To one side of the street — a multi-level space which embraces many different activities — are more open patients ' and visitors ' rooms and opposite there are the cellular service rooms . |
| 21 | Secondly , there are the procedural responsibilities associated with the conventions of the student role . |
| 22 | With open and pocket-sprung mattresses , the more springs there are the better ( and more expensive ) the mattress . |
| 23 | There are the real Romanies , who are no menace to anybody . |
| 24 | Then there are the intimate , human scale museums such as the Anne Frank House , Second World War hiding place of the fated Jewish girl made famous through her diaries or the Amstelkring Museum , a church attic in a 17th century canal house . |
| 25 | First , there are the substantive responsibilities which go hand in hand with the moral virtues that are inseparably part of the intellectual life . |
| 26 | literary titles in June are very strong , for besides the two in High-flyers there are the following , listed in no particular order : |
| 27 | Then there are the legal departments of transport undertakings and big insurance companies , which deal principally with claims for damages , and the legal departments of large business forms and combines . |
| 28 | As well as these , there are the spiracular muscles and the epipleural muscles , the latter inserting on the subalare and basalare . |
| 29 | There are the rare cases , as with the bronze and brass Etruscan statuettes described above , where a few moments spent performing a surface analysis can unequivocally solve a problem , which might have remained a stylistic conundrum for ever . |
| 30 | Finally there are the decorative accessories like pictures and ornaments and the entertainment equipment — books , stereo , tv , video , records , tapes — for which there must be storage space . |