Example sentences of "there [vb mod] [vb infin] be [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Over a hundred are known to have existed , and there may have been over a thousand at various times . |
| 2 | His powerful shooting , sometimes from long range , was spectacular and effective and we do well to remember that Albert played in the days when the leather ball grew heavier and heavier , soaking up any moisture there may have been in or on the pitch and possibly finishing up weighing several pounds . |
| 3 | Exactly how many boxes there were originally is not certain , although it seems there may have been as many as sixty-five , all of which were sent to Rome 's Istituto Centrale del Restauro in 1947 . |
| 4 | There may have been as many as 200 women compositors in London in the early 1890s , but as has been noted , the London Society of Compositors was able to exert pressure on employers and see that on the whole they were vanishing or being expelled to printing-houses in the Home Counties . |
| 5 | There may have been so much conflict indoors that you had to construct your shelter elsewhere . |
| 6 | But there may have been more to the Chancellor 's remarks than meet the eye . |
| 7 | In some other cultures , there may have been socially validated ways of defining reality and of acting which would enable them to be less socially isolated , and therefore less neurotic because less privatized . |
| 8 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 9 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 10 | ‘ But there must have been more than that , surely ? ’ |
| 11 | There must have been more than twenty farms , plus the school , the chapel and the Strathmore Arms . |
| 12 | Then there must have been more personal anger . |
| 13 | But there must have been more to it than that . |
| 14 | In the end , there must have been more than twenty small windows all around where Little Billy was sitting , and from each window these amazing little faces were peering out . |
| 15 | There must have been more than twenty curriers Nowadays there are no tanneries and there are only three curriers So the answer to your question is yes , many , many more . |
| 16 | Then a fortnight ago I had a cataract removed , but there must have been more to it than that , because not only am I startled by the brightness of things , but the vision in that eye is practically perfect , so I am not wearing glasses most of the time , though for faint or small print ( not piano music : hooray ) I shall have to get some more specs . |
| 17 | ‘ There must have been quite a few since Lucia and Michele . ’ |
| 18 | sticks , erm , there must have been quite a few schools for girls |
| 19 | There must have been about twelve of us . |
| 20 | There must have been about nine or ten of them — all men except for one woman — and they tried to say it took all of them to restrain me . |
| 21 | ‘ There must have been about 30 pairs in the drawer but I just happened to pick the one with the money . |
| 22 | There must have been about forty or fifty of them . |
| 23 | And there must have been about ten thousand there last time . |
| 24 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 25 | Apparently there must have been very heavy rain higher up the dale because there had been some flooding and the river was running very fast . |
| 26 | If there was in operation a good system to prevent alien matter entering the lemonade then someone who worked there must have been very negligent if alien matter got in despite the system . |
| 27 | She reckoned there must have been as many as four hundred of them . |
| 28 | But surely there should have been more help for him at the beginning , when he first found out he carried the virus . |
| 29 | ‘ Anyone accused of murder is regarded as a danger to the public and there should have been more control here , ’ said a senior City police officer . |
| 30 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |