Unit 17. There is/There are.

Exercise 1. Norfolk is a small town. Look at the information in the box and write sentences with there is/isn’t/are/aren’t … .

Example: Home Office. No. – There isn’t a Home Office in Norfolk.

1. Notary. No. 2. Police station. Yes. 3. Private detective agency. Yes. 4. Police department. Yes. 5. Procurator’s offices. No. 6. Advocate’s Bureau. Yes. 7. Prison. Yes. 8. Custom-houses. No. 9. Law-college. No. 10. Political action committee. No. 11. City hall. Yes. 12. Jail. No. 13. Investigating agencies. Yes. 14. Diplomatic representatives. No. 15. Department of the Interior. No.

Now write the same information about the place where you live in.

Example: International airport. No. – There isn’t an international airport in our city.

Exercise 2. Fill in the gaps with there is/there isn’t/is there/there are/there aren’t/are there.

Example: … many books on civil law in our library. – There are many books on civil law in our library.

1. … 625 Members of the English House of Commons. 2. Unless … a Coalition Government, the members of the Cabinet belong to one party only. 3. Excuse me, … a city court near here? 4. Another difference between the British House of Commons and Parliamentary Chambers in many other countries is that in the House of Commons … benches. 5. We can’t take any photographs. … a film in the camera. 6. How many students … in your class? 7. The first reading of a Bill is scarcely ever objected to, as … debate or amendment allowed at this stage. 8. … a bus from the city centre to the airport? 9. … a considerable overlap in the functions of barristers and solicitors. 10. … six main organs of the United Nations. 11. … longer military service in Great Britain. 12. Look! … a photograph of George in the newspaper! He has helped to detain dangerous criminals.

Exercise 3. Complete the sentences with there was/there wasn’t/was there?/there were/there weren’t/were there?

Example: … any road accidents yesterday? – Were there any road accidents yesterday?

1. The prisoners were hungry but … anything to eat. 2. … any obvious disadvantages in the arrangement? 3. … a President’s speech on air last night but I didn’t listen to it. 4. How many stages of development … in Roman legal procedure? 5. … times when strangers were not allowed in the Parliament. 6. I found a wallet in the street but … any money in it. 7. “… many people at the meeting?” “No, very few.” 8. We didn’t visit the Houses of Parliament. … enough time. 9. In the early 19th century … a series of attempts to reduce the English criminal law to a code 10. The radio wasn’t working because … any batteries in it. 11. … statutory definition of a murder in England in the 19^th century. 12. … a consolidation of most of the statutory criminal law in 1861 into a number of statutes.

Exercise 4. Fill in the gaps with there is/there are/there was/there were/there has been/there will be.

Example: … no lecture on criminal law tomorrow. – There will be no lecture on criminal law tomorrow.

1. … a good film on TV yesterday evening. 2. Look! … an accident. Call an ambulance. 3. … 700 magistrates’ courts and about 30,000 magistrates. 4. Until 1999 they were mostly “hereditary peers” because their fathers had been peers before them. 5. Look! This bag is empty. … nothing in it. 6. “Why are those policemen outside the bank?” “ … a robbery.” 7. … a rule, which forbids MPs to address one another directly or use personal names. 8. … somebody at the station to meet the delegation when they arrive tomorrow. 9. Ten years ago … 500 students at law school. Now … over a thousand. 10. Since 1950 … considerable variation in the content of the criminal code from one state to another. 11. … many differences in the procedure of the courts according to whether the charge was felony or misdemeanour. 12. … some interest in the idea that criminality may be related to chromosomal abnormalities.

Exercise 5. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.

1. В палате общин стоят скамейки, а в других палатах отдельные сиденья. 2. В вашей речи много несоответствий, во время допроса будет слишком много вопросов. 3. Существует большое различие между обычными членами парламента и членами правительства. 4. Были времена, когда женщин не пускали в парламент. 5. В прошлом существовали определенные требования к присяжным. 6. Либеральная партия существует в Британии с 1868 года. 7. Почему всегда существовали серьезные ограничения по принятию на службу в ФБР? 8. Никто не имеет права выступать против национальной безопасности. 9. Существует ли официально принятое определение административного права? 10. Будет ли завтра заседание городского суда? 11. Члены Генеральной Ассамблее ООН разговаривают на многих языках, но официально их шесть – арабский, китайский, английский, французский, русский и испанский. 12. Существует значительное сомнение по поводу его вины.