Example sentences of "[ex0] [modal v] [be] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , there may be something worth learning from that person . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , there may be something to be said for the notion of denunciation . |
| 3 | Finally , there may be something to be said for a non-exhaustive list of situations in which consent will be negatived . |
| 4 | His arrival at the Ministry has raised hopes that there may be something of particular interest in the Queen 's Speech for those Scottish regiments threatened with amalgamation under Options for Change . |
| 5 | In old males the tusks grow to a great length and are often broken , as if by combat , so there may be something in this theory . |
| 6 | Froissart suggests that Edward intervened in Brittany merely to distract Philip , and there may be something in this ; but it was also important for him to protect the sea route from England to Aquitaine around the Finistère peninsula , and above all the allegiance of the Duke of Brittany would be a great prize in Edward 's campaign to undermine Philip VI 's authority in France . |
| 7 | The smoke rising from the five chimneys of Auschwitz-Birkenau is a downer , although he thinks there may be something in my idea of complementary smoke rising from the savannah . |
| 8 | There may be something in the view that many environmental regulations in the United States are over-stringent , but an insurance market that boasts of insuring all risks , and which is paid for doing to , can not logically complain when unforeseen risks are realized . |
| 9 | GUIL : There may be something in the letter to keep us going a bit . |
| 10 | Even so , a verse attributed to the contemporary poet Stefnir Thorgilsson , which refers to a man with a crooked nose who betrayed Swegen out of his land , indicates that there may be something in the exile story after all . |
| 11 | People in the tiny Russell 's Water Community believe there may be something in that . |
| 12 | And e e e even if it 's not general th there may be something in the argument this , this , this was what was happening in |
| 13 | ‘ Surely , ’ said Anwar to me , ‘ surely there must be something between this donkey 's legs ? ’ |
| 14 | He added : ‘ However , I think there must be something between the pair we do n't know about . |
| 15 | There must be something about sporting events that brings out the unexpected in live radio and television commentaries . |
| 16 | There must be something about carp , be they Koi or their semi-wild cousins , that inspires fierce devotion . |
| 17 | When foreign-language teachers are nowadays being encouraged to ‘ play the role of a sympathetic native speaker ’ , there must be something to be said for their actually being ‘ sympathetic native speakers ’ . |
| 18 | Can we in the alternative put our case if that is a fait accompli then there must be something for the local communities to be derived from this and therefore we went for protection under one O six agreement as Stewart quite rightly refers to and we also went for the dedication of large areas of the resultant heap for landscaping and for public open space . |
| 19 | I think one of the problems with any new department is that there are new staff from other ministries and there must be something of a learning curve for them and probably some propensity to control their various parishioners . |
| 20 | The number of individual insects in the world seems beyond any computation , but someone has made the attempt and concluded that at any one time , there must be something of the order of one thousand million thousand million . |
| 21 | At some point in the future there many be another move , but there must be something like a five times price/performance advantage before people will move to another standard platform . |
| 22 | There must be something from her past . ’ |
| 23 | I mean , there must be something behind it for the police to go that far . |
| 24 | First , there was the fact that the crucifix is mentioned in documents as far back as the 1500s , and since what was visible clearly was later in date , restorers reasoned that there must be something underneath it ; then there were the traces of thirteenth-century paint at the foot of the cross . |
| 25 | In the 1760s the Lake District with its rugged and dramatic scenery began to be all the rage with artists of all sorts , and in their wake , as usual , the dilettanti rich followed limply behind , thinking there must be something in this search for the sublime through unadulterated nature . |
| 26 | There must be something in the Gallacher dynasty that provokes scandal . |
| 27 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 28 | There must be something in this : when morning came , amid some laughter , my husband re-enacted the closing chapter of the old year by going up into the rafters and suspending himself through the hole so that I could take photographs . |
| 29 | I have a sensation of heat as I approach the fire ; but when I approach the same fire too closely , I have a sensation of pain ; so there is nothing to convince me that something in the fire resembles heat , any more than the pain ; it is just that there must be something in it ( whatever this may turn out to be ) that produces the sensations of heat or pain . |
| 30 | Since one thinks that there must be something in common to all good things one may then conclude that it must be pleasure . |