Example sentences of "[prep] [ex0] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have too much competition within the side for there to be any complacency , ’ Shelford said . |
| 2 | You only have to show that this act works for there to be takers everywhere . |
| 3 | I thought that it was still possible for there to be a political link between the United Kingdom and India . |
| 4 | For a songwriter/artist who the music publisher believes has a good chance of success , it is quite usual for there to be a royalty split of 70:30 in favour of the writer . |
| 5 | Yet they were alike : Viola was a shade darker in skin and hair but the features were similar enough for there to be little difference between the two women in a picture . |
| 6 | But it is a little unusual for there to be more than one left in at this stage . |
| 7 | There may be evidence of a urethritis in the female , but it is more common for there to be a cervicitis . |
| 8 | In case you are frightened off , may I say that it is unusual for there to be more than three major matters arising from a survey on the average house . |
| 9 | If , like many executives , you have no representative to act on your behalf in redundancy negotiations , it is all the more important for there to be detailed discussions between you and your employer about any plans to make you redundant . |
| 10 | It is by no means rare for there to be confusion about whether or not a dismissal has actually taken place . |
| 11 | Thus could the very first and important step in the rise of god-worship have been initiated , by making it unnecessary for there to be an actual physical connection between the objects of faith and the believer . |
| 12 | In making the decision the parents should bear in mind that once any kind of commitment to a religion is made , it is always more difficult for there to be a change of course , even when the commitment is made on behalf of the individual when a helpless baby . |
| 13 | It is this all important human love between parent and child , particularly the mother , that could well be the origin of the power which has made it possible for there to be established within the human mind this thing we call a ‘ conscience ’ . |
| 14 | While property which is vacant can resume its last lawful planning use , it is possible for there to be no use , in which case any new activity will require consent . |
| 15 | In a separate study which Jenkins and Sherman quote , from the Institute of Manpower Studies at the University of Sussex , the estimate was that for there to be enough jobs created to keep unemployment down to the levels of the mid-1970s there would need to be growth in the gross domestic product ( GDP ) averaging 3.5 per cent per annum in the UK . |
| 16 | It has been market practice in asset-backed transactions for there to be a mechanism whereby transactions can be mopped up when the balance of performing assets falls below a given level , usually 10% of initial principal . |
| 17 | It was also French colonial policy for there to be larger concentrations of Europeans in their territories . |
| 18 | In Britain the party system made it necessary for there to be an independent corporation , since broadcasting had to remain outside political conflict . |
| 19 | Now that she 's been nominated for an Oscar , it would be natural for there to be competition between them . |
| 20 | ‘ Though definitely not young , that 's still not too old for there to be a considerable amount of resilience present . |
| 21 | That it must be language acquisition therefore which is taking place is clear , not only because of these simple observations but because of the fact that the rules of BSL have never been researched sufficiently until now for there to be a language learning situation . |
| 22 | Human tasks and the purposes of task analysis are too varied for there to be one standard procedure for either analysis or description . |
| 23 | This topic is too recent for there to be many guidelines available but for a particular topic the designer can assume that he need not be inhibited in allowing his imagination to run to many kinds of novel solutions . |
| 24 | The first is a highly fortuitous and austere way : namely that the compound might have the same effect — the transfer of some particular kind of information — sufficiently often and sufficiently advantageously for there to be some selective advantage in its coming standardly to possess that significance : that is , for it to acquire the biological function of transmitting just that kind of information . |
| 25 | It is also quite common for there to be a special pension scheme for executives and directors . |
| 26 | Nor is it uncommon for there to be such poor recording of achievement ( as well as diagnosis of weaknesses ) that a teacher has relatively little on which to build from the child 's teacher of the previous year . |
| 27 | The importance of this part of the debate is that it illuminates one crucially important difference between , on this occasion , Devlin and Hart : that is , the disagreement over whether or not it is possible for there to be areas of behaviour which , whilst they might be considered to be ‘ immoral ’ , could also be considered to be ‘ private ’ . |
| 28 | The Dutchmen of New Amsterdam were the first community of any substance outside the British Isles to be absorbed into England 's possession by conquest but they were close enough to the English in religion — the line of really intense division between groups in the seventeenth century — for there to be no prolonged resistance . |
| 29 | A large suburban school is too open an institution for there to be much of an underlife in which to acquire reputation and to develop an alternative moral career . |
| 30 | I was glad that I was n't one of those Portuguese or Italians who only had to go three hours without shaving for there to be a blue carpet on their chin . |