Example sentences of "[conj] there [vb mod] be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand , notes can be extremely useful for radio , particularly for long phone-ins where there may be quite a few questions which require detailed instructions in the answer .
2 I feel sure they must be rolling in the upper layer of water where there could be more dissolved oxygen than in the lower layer , but so far below surface there is no visible evidence .
3 To continue with this practise shoot , move outdoors — if you are not there already — where there will be more light and plenty of room to work in .
4 And in the end the organisers had to tell TV 's Darling Buds Of May star to go home or there would be no one left to party with .
5 Or there might be more to it than that .
6 So , depending on where you live , there may be quite a lot of help to call upon , or there may be very little .
7 er Half past one , there are about three hundred , or there will be about three hundred school children descending upon the library from Icknield Primary and Berryfields Primary er and er Monks Risborough School er they will be given a sweet ration — sweets for a whole week , which is less than they imagine they 're going to be .
8 A semi-double bloom , of which there are a great many , is somewhere between , but tending more towards ‘ single ’ than ‘ double ’ so that , although there may be as many as 15 petals , the flower opens more loosely than a double and reveals the anthers more readily .
9 There is no particular season that gives the best ‘ air ’ , but although there may be more ‘ heavenly blue ’ in June he observed some of the finest atmosphere in September and October .
10 Although there may be more or less rigorous ways of doing this it can not be denied that the central activity is the same .
11 Although there may be quite considerable local swelling , in many cases the lesion will go unnoticed .
12 If an Act of Parliament says that A ( who may be a minister or a commission or a local authority or an individual ) shall be the person to settle certain specified questions and that there shall be neither appeal to nor review by any other body or person ( including the courts ) , then A's decisions are unchallengeable so long as ( a ) it is A , not another , who decides , ( b ) A decides those specified questions and not others and ( c ) A does not act in bad faith or with similar impropriety .
13 The true figure was almost certainly four to five times as great , but both Government and RTD officials conceded that there might be as many as 160,000 to 200,000 sets .
14 The Profitboss listens to Joe Cooper , the union representative , and his mind is open to the possibility that Joe could be right about certain aspects of the payment system being inequitable , The Profitboss 's mind is open to the possibility that there might be too much bureaucracy in company secretariat when Paul the property services manager mentions it in passing .
15 Tylor decided to investigate , guided by the shrewd hunch that there might be statistically valid correlations between avoidance behaviour and choice of residence at marriage .
16 It is also clear that in some places , Marx at least , seems willing to envisage qualifications which are even more fundamental ; for example , that there might be more than one line of evolution .
17 thought that , … in preference to the suggestion that there might be more frequent recommendations for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative , it might be possible to introduce a system similar to that adopted in some parts of the United States under which a distinction was made between murder in the first and second degree , the death penalty being reserved for cases of the former kind .
18 In post-industrial Britain both the self-satisfied and the desperate are able to feel justified in clinging on to what they have , or grabbing what they have n't ; at no time — even in the middle of the Live Aid telethon — is there a suggestion that there might be more to life than such behaviour .
19 When the requirement was originally written erm and agreed in nineteen eighty seven all of the nations decided that erm we required a short take off and landing capability and that was based on the sort of the then cold war situation where the prospects of runways and airfields being very severely damaged in a sort of central European type of scenario , and therefore the possibility that there might be only very small operating strips available from those runways and that was the basis for the particular length that was decided at the time .
20 It is equally true that there would be even fewer breweries left if the Campaign had not opposed takeovers and mergers vociferously .
21 That there would be little support for the self-appraisal in terms of any provision of time perhaps emphasized the low priority accorded to it .
22 The Council of Mortgage Lenders estimated that there would be up to 100,000 repossessions in 1991 — a staggering 120 per cent .
23 The majority of suggestions have been on the lines that there should be a one- or two-year period in which it should be possible for the capital of discretionary trusts to be distributed tax free provided the settlement was made before 26th March 1974 and the result of the distribution was that there would be either absolute entitlement to the property or an interest in possessing it .
24 Since each dyke is quite narrow , averaging only ten metres wide , that 's an awful lot of dykes , and a cross-section through Iceland would reveal hundreds and hundreds , sometimes so closely spaced together that there would be scarcely any non-dyke material present and many dykes would be intruded up the middle of earlier ones .
25 In answer to further questions from me , he said that no formal evidence would be sought but that there would be wide informal consultation .
26 He felt that there would be too little control over quality and points to the US to back his case .
27 This may not matter with mortality data , where it seems unlikely that there would be very rapid transformation in the main causes of death .
28 Gudok reckoned that there would be only two to three days ' reserve for the railways as a whole .
29 Clark had always loved computation , and a childhood estimation of the minimum possible capacity of Noah 's ark foreshadowed his later demonstration in Applied Pharmacology that the preparation of some homoeopathic remedies involved dilutions of such order that there would be only one drug molecule in a volume of solution equal to that circumscribed by the orbit of the planet Neptune .
30 The best time of day would be between twelve noon and three thirty or four o'clock , this is a time when the manager is generally out having one of his long lunches , er the assistant manager would probably return to the bank about round about two , two thirty , and the situation in the bank er between these times would be that there would be only a handful of staff , usually junior staff on duty who are more susceptible to passing information than the senior staff .
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