Example sentences of "[subord] there can [be] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Since there can be an assault without a battery , this section uses the second meaning .
2 ‘ It is wrong to assume that the woman must show signs of injury or that she must always physically resist before there can be a conviction for rape .
3 This has two implications : any disclosures of uncertainties belong in the accounts , not in the audit report ; and there needs to be an accounting standard defining what disclosures are required before there can be an auditing standard .
4 The question of the compatibility of feminism and Christianity then is that of whether there can be a way of speaking of Christ 's uniqueness which is not incompatible with feminism .
5 One important question remains unsettled , namely , whether there can be a conviction for assault on a constable when the constable is not actually on duty in the technical sense that he has reported for his shift at the requisite time .
6 Before we proceed to consider the question as to whether there can be a Christology which is not incompatible with feminism , I should like to point to the significance of this question for Christians .
7 In the context of the negativity of this formulation , Sartre is obliged to pose once again the problem of whether there can be a totalization , without any independent totalizer or totalizing force such as the dialectic , or whether the structure of negation that he has described means that , as for Adorno or Bakhtin , history does not develop positively but , rather , negatively , and is therefore instead detotalizing :
8 ‘ I have started a review of our performance in all kinds of areas when there can be an impact on the environment to build up an objective picture of where we stand at the present and where improvement can be made .
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