Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] there [modal v] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aristotle also doubted whether there could be time without thinking beings , since he regarded time as not merely succession but ‘ succession in so far as it is numbered ’ , and nothing can be numbered unless there is someone to do the counting . |
| 2 | He realized that there must be meetings , and he was prepared to go to them and fire off his battery of buzz words which signified he was ‘ one of us ’ . |
| 3 | In an attempt to reduce the delay common in civil litigation , the Civil Justice Review recommended that there should be court management of litigation . |
| 4 | Cook believed that there might be evidence for a ‘ young Earth ’ in the fundamentalist sense of literal biblical interpretation , due to the presence of helium-3 in the atmosphere in quantities whose origins are hard to understand unless they are from fusion . |
| 5 | She believed that there would be changes , a new cycle of prosperity , Mussolini will fall . |
| 6 | He stated that there should be reception rooms capable of taking nearly fifty guests for dinner parties to celebrate birthdays , and ‘ occasionally upon the arrival of Foreign Princes in this country ’ . |
| 7 | Although he indicated that there would be help for those on low incomes , doubt was sown by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Michael Portillo , in the Commons on Wednesday and the indication was that compensation would be confined to benefits being upgraded in line with inflation . |
| 8 | Jurgen Warnke , the deputy chairman of the right-wing Christian Social party warned that there could be violence and the whole East German security apparatus could be deployed to ensure the survival of the regime . |
| 9 | It implied that there would be ways of modifying it , just as peripheral transmission at ganglia could be blocked by methonium compounds and transmission at certain nerve endings by beta-blockers ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 10 | These showed that the fact that space-time was curved in on itself implied that there would be singularities , places where space-time had a beginning or an end . |
| 11 | Answering a questionnaire drawn up by Labour MP Alun Michael , Shadow Minister for Home Affairs , Mr White confessed that there would be problems finding alternative sources of local funding . |
| 12 | Going back to the early thoughts of the RHA on the matter in the mid-1970s , it had been recognized that the reduction in the hospital populations meant that there would be competition for any savings between the hospitals themselves and district services . |
| 13 | Some also felt that there should be ceiling on the amount payable or that the rates should be degressive in relation to the price . |
| 14 | He was , however , unhappy with remedies prepared from bacteria and felt that there must be plant alternatives to these which would be purer and more generally acceptable . |
| 15 | Few thought that there should be marks for the design , some on the grounds that this was not a mathematical feature and others because an objective mark could not be given . |
| 16 | She 's wounded , too , in one leg , but she ca n't be moved down to Florence until twenty-four hours have passed because she cracked her head when she fell and there could be concussion . ’ |
| 17 | It looked like there might be pus in it . |
| 18 | He never knew if there should be carbon there or not . |
| 19 | But we have n't actually had a set amou , although they said that there would be money coming |
| 20 | He said that there would be preference funding for smallholdings . |
| 21 | Does the Secretary of State recall that , earlier this year , when he was talking about the increase in BR 's external financing , he said that there would be £70 million more for safety matters ? |
| 22 | Boullee was the architect of the sublime , and he said that there should be poetry in architecture , and that men should be moved emotionally by it as they would be by a poem . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) said that there will be chaos when everyone appeals . |
| 24 | It regretted that there would be job losses in both cases , at Redheugh adolescent unit at Kilbirnie , Ayrshire , and Methlan Park Eventide Home at Clydeshore Road , Dumbarton . |
| 25 | Hence if you have a few shapers you might have noticed the tendencies in the group group discussion that we had because there 'll be people digging in and saying no this is the right way to do it . |
| 26 | She calculated that there would be time for a quick dip before afternoon tea , which Juliette normally served at a quarter to four . |
| 27 | He conceded that there would be disputes with colleagues , but said : ‘ There are no quick fixes , and I will not be indulging in any quick fix . |
| 28 | Dening criticised the inconsistency and failure to clarify objectives on the part of the United States ; he conceded that there could be difficulties over Chinese representation in talks between the powers , given the collapse of the Kuomintang and the imminent proclamation formally of the communist government in Peking . |
| 29 | In Bateman ( 1925 ) , where a doctor had attended the confinement of a woman who died whilst giving birth , the Court of Criminal Appeal held that there must be negligence over and above that which is sufficient to establish civil liability , and which shows ‘ such disregard for the life and safety of others ’ as to deserve punishment . |
| 30 | Arguing from the example of Huntingdon 's chorea , Medawar suggested that there could be selection for genetic modifiers delaying the age of onset of the effects of deleterious alleles . |