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There and was
There was more to this
than Jones had told him
.
There was no one
but me
.
There was a ragged volley
.
There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry:
the peace
and quiet
.
There was brush
, and stands
of pine
that no grass could grow under
, and places so steep
that cattle wouldn't stop to graze
.
There was an artificial lake just out
of sight
in the first stand
of trees
, fed by
a half dozen springs
that popped out
of the ground above
the hillside orchard
.
There was no chance
.
There was no moon
.
There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets
of water against
the huge seam
of tertiary gravel which
was the mountainside
.
There was only one place where
the mountain might receive her --
that unnamed
, unnameable pool harbored
in its secret bosom
.
There was a peculiar density about
it, a thick substance
that could be sensed
but never identified
, never actually perceived
.
There was some idle talk
, a listless discussion
of this or
that small happening during
the day's drive
.
There was to be no gunplay
.
There was a light
in Black's front room
, but drawn curtains prevented any view
of the interior
.
There was no lock on
the door
, only an iron hook which he unfastened
.
There was raw fury
in his eyes
, and the veins
of his neck
were swollen
.
There was a feeling
that this mission would be canceled like all
the others
and that this muddy wet dark world
of combat would go on forever
.
There was not enough room to make
the usual vertical bomb run
.
There was, of course
, no way for
the other planes to get by them
.
There was no time to pick out
a penny ; ;
There was a blur just under my focus
of vision
, a crash ; ;
There had been
a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out
, and now I
was certain I'd seen her somewhere before
.
There was something about
the contour
of her face
, her smile
that was like New Orleans sunshine
, the way she held her head
, the way she walked -- there
was scarcely anything she did which did
not fascinate me
.
There and measure
There is a measure of drama
that cross-examination adds to any trial because
of the challenging
of the statements made by
a witness
.
There is some evidence
that the use
of specially tailored fonts may provide some
measure of assistance for those suffering from dyslexia .< ref >
There is no international juridical authority
in Anglicanism
, although
the tradition's common experience
of episcopacy
, symbolised by
the historical link with
the See
of Canterbury
, along with
a common
and complex liturgical tradition
, has provided
a measure of unity
.
There have been many different theories advanced over
the centuries for
the origin
of the name: most can be dismissed
as fanciful on linguistic or historical grounds
, while
a few have some
measure of academic plausibility
.
There is no
measure of what
is a healthy level for sex desire
.
There are several units
that are used to
measure length
.
There must also be
in the believer
a deep conviction
of needing more
of God
in his or her life
, and a measure of consecration by which
the believer yields himself or herself to
the will
of God
.
There is a general consensus
, even among those
who argue
in favor
of security through obscurity
, that security through obscurity should never be used
as a primary security
measure.
There are also different ways national statistical agencies
measure unemployment
.
There is, up to
a positive multiplicative constant
, a unique countably additive
, nontrivial
measure μ on
the Borel subsets
of G satisfying
the following properties:
There is electronic equipment both to generate sinewaves
and to
measure distortion ;
but a general-purpose digital computer equipped with
a sound card can carry out harmonic analysis with suitable software
.
There is no widely held consensus on how to
measure social capital
, which has become
a debate
in itself: why refer to this phenomenon
as ' capital '
if there
is no true way to
measure it?
There is no requirement
that a Golomb ruler be able to
measure all distances up to
its length
, but if it does
, it is called
a perfect Golomb ruler
.
There was also
much controversy over
the government's decision to reintroduce prescription charges
in 1968 ( after having abolished them
in 1964 ), although
the blow
of this
measure was arguably by softened by
the fact
that many people
were exempted from charges
.
There he learnt
a lot about writing
and editing
, and later admitted
of Tolkien's influence
, " to be successful
in fantasy
, you have to take
the measure of Tolkien — work with his strengths
and away from his weaknesses ".
There are
a number
of ways to
measure thermal conductivity
.
There is also
a measure known
as heat transfer coefficient:
the quantity
of heat
that passes
in unit time through unit area
of a plate
of particular thickness
when its opposite faces differ
in temperature by one kelvin
.
There are also two wooden bells
in the museum
that measure about two feet
.
There are different types
of fingerprint readers on
the market
, but the basic idea behind each
is to
measure the physical difference between ridges
and valleys
.
There are 34 panels which together
measure 83 metres ( 272 feet )
in length
.
There is one brood produced
a year
, with clutch size usually two ;
the dull white eggs
measure and are sparsely spotted or blotched with reddish brown
.
There are several scales used to
measure spasticity
, such
as the King ’ s Hypertonicity Scale
, the Tardieu
, and the Modified Ashworth
.
There are social choice theory definitions
of seemingly reasonable criteria
that are
a measure of the fairness
of certain aspects
of voting
, including non-dictatorship
, unrestricted domain
, non-imposition
, Pareto efficiency
, and independence
of irrelevant alternatives
but Arrow's impossibility theorem states
that no voting system can meet all these standards
.
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