Example sentences of "[is] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |
| 2 | If the state was not present in his novels from the first , it is there in One Fat Englishman , and in Jake 's Thing . |
| 3 | It is there in Stanley and the Women , which persuaded Marilyn Butler — somewhat against the odds , but none the less intelligibly — to interpret it in the London Review as a critique of male supremacy , but which has left a very different impression on others . |
| 4 | The music of the words is there to be used — but not at the expense of the sense and emotional content . |
| 5 | But what alternative is there if you are unknown to a potential employer ? |
| 6 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 7 | But the point is there can never be any more . |
| 8 | What is there is there . |
| 9 | What is there is there . |
| 10 | If information is there it needs to be filtered and passed on — via senior management — into all areas of the operation . |
| 11 | All you will ever need to know about each variety is there : history ; scientific properties ; handling advice ; and translations of the fruit 's name into French . |
| 12 | ‘ And it is there that you also are staying ? ’ |
| 13 | It is there that I am putting up . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ She does n't always have to upset the table , though , when she is there , does she ? ’ remarked Henry Tyler in a tone that at least one ambassador had been known to call ‘ eminently reasonable ’ . |
| 15 | There may not be much they can do , but what else is there going for you now ? ’ |
| 16 | In these cases the student probably relies on the instructor to make the decision and knows that he is there and can save the situation if things go wrong . |
| 17 | ‘ If his name is there , he is in mortal danger , and if the French war gets worse , they will be taking them all . ’ |
| 18 | But it is there , and grew with the passage of time . |
| 19 | But what evidence is there that this bit of the cortex is concerned with the reception of sound ? |
| 20 | He is there as the only one who fully understands the problems of both Elgar and his Wife , but plays no part in the other activities . |
| 21 | The fact is there is no real evidence to suggest high-protein diets improve performance or are likely to prevent weight loss in working dogs . |
| 22 | The hyperconscious Double Act in which Svidrigailov 's terminal boredom plays opposite the greedy , theoretical self-assertion of Raskolnikov 's wanting ‘ something more ’ than ‘ mere existence ’ , becomes grounded in suicide and murder ; and the Petersburg where these things happen gains a fuzzy-edged documentary aspect which never comes anywhere near dominating the novel , but which is there . |
| 23 | But what is there for Porfiry to do ? |
| 24 | And indeed what evidence is there that Sicily as a physical presence , a quite insistent presence as generations of travellers have found it , ever modified Pound 's sensibility in the least ? |
| 25 | If they can prove it is there , we might pay for it , ’ |
| 26 | The Duchess of Kent , as Patron , attends the launch of Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund 's leaflet ‘ Help is There ’ as part of the Europe Against Cancer Year at London Weekend Television , South Bank Television Centre , London SE1 . |
| 27 | If a great opera such as this has difficulty holding a place in the repertoire , what hope is there for the merely excellent ? |
| 28 | Somebody must be responsible , otherwise who is there to sue ? |
| 29 | The Duchess of Kent , as Patron , this morning attended the launch of Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund 's leaflet ‘ Help is There ’ at London Weekend Television , South Bank Television Centre , London SE1 . |
| 30 | Eventually equipment purchases will have to be made so long as the demand for packaging is there . |