Example sentences of "there can be [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the fruits of the single market are not going to be realised , then there can be precious little incentive to go along with political and economic union , even if we wanted to . |
| 2 | Some solicitors charge per hour , but since there can be so many complications when you are buying or selling , it is almost impossible to get an accurate quote of what it will cost . |
| 3 | Different interpreters see these questions differently , which is why there can be so many different productions of the same play . |
| 4 | Furthermore , there can be little doubt that the sudden and huge growth in private residential care and nursing homes raises new problems , since there can be so little detailed control of the quality of care . |
| 5 | Such comments explain why there can be so much discussion of undergraduate courses within specific disciplines , and yet so little of the undergraduate curriculum as a whole . |
| 6 | There can be so much love huh |
| 7 | Unfortunately , there can be too many project groups ( or ‘ commando groups ’ ) for the good of the total organisation , and a manager 's dilemma is to decide how many project groups he should create to satisfy the needs of his subordinates , and how much bureaucratic organisation structure should be retained for the benefit of the total organisation despite the wishes of his subordinates . |
| 8 | It is worth describing it at such length so that readers who have not read Tolkien 's ‘ minor ’ works might develop some idea of Lewis 's importance as Tolkien 's ‘ onlie begetter ’ or ‘ miglior fabbro ’ , for there can be very little doubt that it was Lewis 's friendship and encouragement which led Tolkien to write the works which made his name with the public ; just as it was Tolkien 's friendship which released in Lewis wells of creativity which had remained ( though he was so naturally fluent ) mysteriously dry . |
| 9 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 10 | Yet common sense dictates that there can be very few police actions which a person would be entitled to resist at all costs , including if ‘ necessary ’ the use of fatal force . |
| 11 | There can be very few machines that do not have a spreadsheet program and if yours is one of them then you are probably missing out on one of the most valuable tools available . |
| 12 | There can be very few students , young doctors and especially trainees in general practice who would not benefit from reading this book in detail . |
| 13 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 14 | In athletes , and Arctic explorers , there can be as much as a two-fold rise in metabolic rate , requiring the calorie intake to be doubled in order to maintain normal weight . |
| 15 | In many of Morton 's experiments , priming effects of much longer duration were observed : there can be as much as half an hour between the primer and primed , or sometimes a day or more ( Scarborough , Cortese and Scarborough , 1977 ) . |
| 16 | There can be as much discussion as is required and students can be directed to known sources of topics . |
| 17 | There can be as many as you like . ’ |
| 18 | As with so many armorial terms the word ‘ quarterings ’ is not used in a conventional way and applied to a shield divided merely into four ; indeed there can be as many ‘ quarterings ’ as there are family affiliations — perhaps the record is held by the five-surnamed Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family , whose full achievement of arms boasts 719 quarterings . |
| 19 | Now there can be as many as nine of the top ten in that category and as both Brian Gottfried and David Wheaton astutely pointed out , you can not legislate for that . |
| 20 | Chris and his wife have been collecting and breeding snakes for the past 16 years : there are 34 in the house at the moment , but during the breeding season there can be as many as 200 . |