Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] can [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And indeed there can be little doubt that the qualities these terms indicate , as processes and as responses , are very significant and important .
2 Environmental protection and wealth creation are in tension but not necessarily in conflict , and indeed there can be little hope of improving the quality of the environment without the resources to do so .
3 If the commercial benefits to Visa of retaining the data do not outweigh the costs of their retention then there can be little hope that such data will be accessible to historians in the future .
4 ‘ The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs .
5 The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs .
6 It needs support from an explanation , in terms of the conditional theory , of how there can be such counter-examples .
7 And then it can be several weeks after committal before the trial takes place . ’
8 That should not be surprising , because when asked to name one favourite flower , beautiful above all others , again there can be little doubt that most people — in Britain at any rate , and whether gardeners or not — would choose the rose .
9 Yet there can be little doubt that Joseph 's reformism was genuine and was combined with an attempt to appeal to the national past ; he encouraged the national theatre , set up a commission to exhume Cervantes ' remains , patronized a national museum of painting .
10 Yet there can be little doubt that Nizan himself certainly did perceive the party in terms similar to this when he joined its ranks in late 1927 .
11 Yet there can be little doubt that this demand for equality , even though not apparent in the Neolithic case , but so insistent and widespread in all modern societies , is a direct consequence of seeing the state as the milch-mother .
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