Example sentences of "there [modal v] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever advantages there may be to the shareholders in the adoption of one or other of these goals as the object of directors ' duties , liability rules , as will be shown in more detail in section II , are too unsophisticated a control technique to make it possible in practice to discriminate between them . |
| 2 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 3 | So far as I know there is no definition of what constitutes a Cabinet Committee and , as the practice has grown , I believe there may be among the 70-odd Committees in the book some with less title to be treated as Cabinet Committees than some of the 700-odd interdepartmental committees of which we have no detailed information at all . |
| 4 | No matter how many cells there may be in the body of an elephant , the elephant began life as a single cell , a fertilized egg . |
| 5 | Whatever ‘ security ’ there may be in the working for the Church of England has been lost . |
| 6 | What is to be understood as happening is perhaps that , given that someone wants to be Christian , she as a feminist will look for what female representation there may be in the religion , whether or not this is fully satisfactory . |
| 7 | Thousands and thousands of tonnes of rock and gravel face us , and the thought pops into mind that any gold there may be in the area seems to be pretty safe from any chance of extracting it . |
| 8 | And any influence of Cézanne that there may be in the Demoiselles as it now appears is of the most general kind . |
| 9 | If there is ever a shadow of self pity , as I think there may be in the final verse of ‘ The Missing ’ , it is completely overshadowed by the cruel indifference and bleakness of Gunn 's other description . |
| 10 | Thus , there may be within the Department of Health and Social Security , a Ministry of Social Security , containing a Pensions Branch . |
| 11 | He states ‘ whatever internal divisions there may be within the business class are secondary to their common interests in the continuing success of big business as a whole ’ . |
| 12 | In this greater society " there must be in the first place a certain order of ranks between the chiefs of these particular ones . |
| 13 | You will know how many rows there should be to the inch ( centimetre ) , all you need to do is to work a number of rows less than given in the instructions before finishing the sleeve . |
| 14 | Now we must shift from thinking that human interests always come first to the idea that humans themselves should bear the cost of whatever progress there should be in the world today . |
| 15 | For example , if the entire coding for the strength of the response depended on Kandel 's single synapse , there should be in the intact animal a direct correlation between the frequency or amount of firing of that specific motor neuron and the strength of the withdrawal reflex . |
| 16 | Sharp was concerned with authenticity while Mary Neal 's main concern was that there should be in the dances something ‘ which … adds to the joy of life ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ The more footpaths we open , the less pressure there 'll be on the most well-used routes , ’ she says . |
| 18 | So you see there 'll be within the division , erm well five of us appraising . |
| 19 | Burgess did n't much like leaving whatever risk there might be to the Inspector , but he did as he was told . |
| 20 | We do not know what further centralisation there might be in the future . |
| 21 | This means a reasonable length of time to try out the goods generally , not a reasonable length of time in which to discover any defects there might be in the goods , Bernstein v. Pamsons Motors ( Golders Green ) Ltd. ( 1986 Q.B. ) . |
| 22 | High buckminsterfullerene yields have been obtained in a heated pulsed laser vaporization where there is no continuous source of new small radicals as there might be from the arc . |
| 23 | In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide . |
| 24 | We do this by assuming that it is in fact cooperative , and then asking ourselves what possible connection there could be between the location of Bill and the location of a yellow VW , and thus arrive at the suggestion ( which B effectively conveys ) that , if Bill has a yellow VW , he may be in Sue 's house . |
| 25 | It was hard to see what future there could be for the embittered and ranting Nazi or his new and pretty wife , other than a steady descent into the poverty of hired rooms and unpaid bills . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , Randall left ambiguous the respective roles of Wilkins and Franklin , and this later led to dissension about the demarcation of the DNA research at King 's , but a letter of his to Franklin in 1950 makes it clear that on ‘ the experimental X-ray effort there would be for the moment only yourself and Gosling ’ . |
| 27 | They erm there 's , there 's less , there 's less a feeling of community in there than there would be on the average street . |
| 28 | And if she left it , God alone knew what sort of mess there would be in the morning . |
| 29 | This is constantly done in Mincing Lane [ a street in the City of London ] , and the person who acts in this way is , perhaps , a quasi-arbitrator or even an arbitrator , but he is an arbitrator of a particular sort , and it is not intended that there should be the same judicial proceeding on his part as there would be in the case of an arbitrator appointed under a formal submission . |
| 30 | Following NN we allow for the possibility that the higher the wage the more competition there will be for the job ( ceteris paribus ) and make this a function of w . |