Example sentences of "surely there [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Surely there wo n't be enough room in Clandeboye for all Bangor 's new found fans and the regular travelling support of these clubs .
2 Merrill 's dark eyebrows lifted a little ; surely there ought to be a reception desk , and someone to attend to visitors ?
3 This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple .
4 It may even be fair to say that if this were not so , then surely there would never have been any life experience at all .
5 Surely there would have been signs of porpoise tanks or something of that kind on board , and there was only the diving equipment and the submersible research vehicle .
6 She thought he looked at her rather searchingly , and she held her breath , for surely there would be strange untold stories about this place and surely he would know of them ?
7 And surely there must be fuel of some kind to feed the great furnaces , and surely there would have to be a store-place .
8 If he could get there , surely there would be a hope ? ’
9 Surely there 'll be no ball in Brussels tonight , sir ? ’
10 But surely there will be keepsakes — small pieces of furniture , perhaps , that you will wish to have ? ’
11 Surely there can be no firm rule : everything depends on the company .
12 At first sight this question might seem to be a nonsense : since , as we have seen , a reasonable definition of the Universe is ‘ everything that has , does and will exist ’ , surely there can not be more than one of them ?
13 Is , ‘ Surely there can not be many
14 Surely there can be no such animal ! ’
15 He wanted to drink it and touch it and explore it , for , he thought , surely there can be nothing so magical as the moment when you know , beyond all question , that the woman you desire desires you in return .
16 Surely there can no longer be any argument about the fact that the RIDDOR regulations , which make compulsory the reporting of all serious onshore accidents , should be applied directly offshore or be paralleled by the introduction of equivalent offshore regulations .
17 Surely there can be only one thing more tedious than slow equal notes calling for inequality , and that is unrelieved inégales producing the saccadé ( ‘ jerky ’ ) result that Thibault ( op. cit. ) warned against so long ago .
18 Surely there should be legal experts to advise them ?
19 But surely there should have been more help for him at the beginning , when he first found out he carried the virus .
20 Thus , surely there should not be more prestige matches played by fewer paid combatants in front of passive and hospitality-packaged crowds , but more active support for the playing of the game by as many players as possible at as many levels as possible .
21 If the truth is at last unavoidable , it ran , and if it must bring consolation in its train , then surely there should be no need to dread its disclosure ?
22 You see , you could say , surely there should n't be a weaning conflict , because an offspring should say to itself , okay , my mother wants to wean me , to have more offspring , but those offspring she 's gon na have are my siblings , I 'm very closely related to them .
23 Surely there should be no more class conflict it should be all class er cooperation , working together .
24 Not a word of this before , not a hint ; surely there 'd have been a hint , a nod , a wink ?
25 Surely there 'd be one here , too , a twin to the Mercedes in Milan .
26 Surely there could be no objection to telling him in advance which areas were run by Trusthouse Forte and which by Granada ?
27 Surely there could not have been a more destructive fire than Calvary ; but more was to come .
28 So , surely there could be no objection to someone taking a look at a place that would soon be up for sale anyway ?
29 Surely there could n't be other women who delighted in such anguish .
30 If it was true what he said , that she kept him at arm 's length , surely there could only be one reason for that ?
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