Example sentences of "there [modal v] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For workshops , as there may be limited spaces , please book early by using the attached booking slip .
2 Er , Professor is right erm there may always be a possibility that at some time er you have to you have to recognise that there may be excess capacity in the system and I I do n't believe that the Labour party is not prepared to recognise that there may well be excess capacity in the system at some time .
3 There may be an alveolar closure immediately preceding and overlapping with a velar closure ; there may be simultaneous alveolar and velar closure , or a velar closure followed by slight contact but not closure in the alveolar region .
4 There may be neurological involvement similar to that occurring in adult acquired syphilis , but the onset is , of course , at a much younger age .
5 Even when there have been tensions and problems , we may have spent many out-of-work hours caring for parents , and there may be deep-rooted feelings of loss .
6 Nevertheless , while in legal theory there may be complete flexibility , the political reality may be quite different .
7 In girlhood , there may be complete unselfconsciousness of beauty , although the child who is encouraged too young to consider her appearance becomes precocious and vain .
8 But there may be powerful grounds for saying that the command economy , is the culprit , rather than the management of it .
9 There may be odd days , however , when a problem arises .
10 They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually .
11 There may be fixed allowances payable for accommodation and meals or firms may reimburse reasonable expenses .
12 ‘ If I play at the Royal Albert Hall , there may be 3,000 people there , but it 's still one-to-one because that 's the way I operate .
13 As the right hon. Gentleman is talking about matters in which there may be joint agreement , and as he has visited Langbaurgh and Hemsworth in recent days , will he comment on the fact that both the Labour party candidates for those constituencies have invested in newly privatised industries ?
14 It need not be insisted that all valuational statements and words are functioning ethically , for there may be non-ethical attitudes .
15 There may be innovative processes at the factory , new products on display at the exhibition and new designs at the fashion show .
16 This may not just be a change in location and hence in pattern , since there may be contemporary settlements beneath the present villages , an aspect Bob Smith is examining in the Wiltshire valleys .
17 In other circumstances there may be invisible hazards like piped music in shops and restaurants , juke boxes in pubs or cafés , the rumble of loud traffic passing outside .
18 In practice , of course , there may be additional obstacles in obtaining either the screening facilities or planning for the abortion .
19 There may be additional rating to charged ( see Section B — ‘ NON-STANDARD CONSTRUCTION ’ ) .
20 There may be additional documents as mentioned above .
21 A high proportion of affected subjects are therefore compound heterozygotes rather than homozygotes , although particular mutations may occur with a frequency of over 60% in certain populations and there may be close association with particular haplotypes , indicating that founder effect has had an important influence on the distribution of mutations across nations .
22 Further procedures which may be undertaken in cases where more detailed information is needed or where it is suspected that there may be serious problems with vision include the visually evaluated response ( VER ) and the electroretinogram ( ERG ) .
23 There may be serious lack of qualified or trained personnel , and a reduced capacity to educate their successors or replacements .
24 Here again , there may be serious doubts about relevant anthropological facts , but the present point concerns the principle of the explanation , which involves an important difference from the incest case .
25 Vision may be good or there may be total blindness or one of any gradations in between .
26 it may turn out that it has n't failed miserably but , you know , there may be various ways in which you could improve it which you might , you know , if you 're lucky he might have sort of written on , round the sides and round the edges and erm that 's you know kind of one of the things that you can build on erm you know a lot of
27 It is much easier for Amnesty to help members to do more specialised campaigning if they belong to a group — in particular , we have systems for providing group members with training , and for getting feedback from them — but there may be new types of groups we could develop , and even ways of offering more personalised approaches to campaigning to individual members .
28 There may be one exception : a chimera consisting of the two kringle domains of t-PA and the serine protease domain of single-chain-urokinase-type PA was found to have a 10-fold delayed in-vivo clearance with a maintained specific thrombolytic activity and a strikingly enhanced thrombolytic potency in venous and arterial thrombosis models in animals .
29 However unlikely , there may be one chance in ten thousand that security has been penetrated .
30 It is in three parts and the main physical bulk takes up at least three metres of shelf space , in addition to which there may be one metre of reference books and some local information on file or cards .
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