Example sentences of "there [modal v] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be little or no hope of finding those particular items , but there are many others to be collected , some as yet unrecorded . |
| 2 | Hence , there may be little or no incentive for a low paid worker to strive for a higher income , whether by gaining promotion or by working overtime , if the welfare benefits previously received disappear rapidly as income rises . |
| 3 | It was also assumed that if people had more of their gross income to spend as they chose then they would purchase goods and services that they wanted rather than the state spending money on goods and services for which there may be little or no demand . |
| 4 | Added to this , the Government 's expressed aim to reduce public expenditure suggests there may be little or no overall boost to the Regional Council 's capital budget . |
| 5 | The recurrence of calculi after removal and the lack of substantial reduction in frequency of cholangitis indicates that there may be little to be gained in many of these patients by multiple manipulations of the biliary tree to achieve clearance . |
| 6 | In this case there may be little to lose by restricting earnings to £77,400 per annum . |
| 7 | But , you know , there may be many other reasons why it is important for him to get to the top so quickly . |
| 8 | There is no reason to suppose that such effects are confined to the victims of rape as traditionally defined : although sexual assaults vary in their degree , there may be many other forms of sexual assault which are serious enough to create such profound physical and psychological after-effects . |
| 9 | There may be many reasons why the husband and wife do not make any formal agreement about separation , but this should not entitle a husband to return and force himself upon his wife weeks , months , or even years since he last saw her . |
| 10 | We should acknowledge at the outset that there may be many cases ( like that illustrated in Fig. 3.1 ) in which presentation of a given stimulus has been shown to result in both latent inhibition and the habituation of a UR . |
| 11 | I realise there may be many runners who I believe have not yet heard of this relatively new organisation . |
| 12 | There may be many things you would like to say in this report but there will only be room for important ones . |
| 13 | And there may be many others but they have n't been discarvard ’ . |
| 14 | If meditation means achieving a state in which stress is reduced — which I believe to be the case — a state in which the self-healing processes of the body may be encouraged , then there may be many channels through which to achieve it . |
| 15 | There may be many planetariums in the world but the London Planetarium is still unique . |
| 16 | Of course , it is not always easy to tell-why a baby is crying — there may be many different causes . |
| 17 | There may be many reasons why a patient under hypnosis is able to experience past-life regression ( or , as the doubters might call it , ‘ flights of fancy ’ ) , but any of them can play a significant part in the overcoming of that patient 's particular problem . |
| 18 | There may be many factors to take into account , but usually the overriding consideration is monetary . |
| 19 | I believe that there may be many true children of the Kingdom outside of the institutional churches . |
| 20 | For a particular system there may be many different but equally valid ways of separating tasks into sub-tasks depending on the relative emphasis on training , interface design and other system design aspects . |
| 21 | There may be many councillors , therefore , who suffer substantial though undefinable loss of job opportunities through their council membership . |
| 22 | Similarly , there are certain words between which human listeners only hear one difference ( e.g. ’ cap ’ and ’ cab ’ ) , yet there may be many differences between their waveforms . |
| 23 | Similarly with public goods : there may be many potential suppliers of television broadcasts , but funding them presents a problem . |
| 24 | As with design , there may be many ways of reaching the centre of the maze ; all of these will be right but some will be more efficient than others . |
| 25 | EBG would then suggest that there may be many bird species with these characteristics , and that they all have such a diet . |
| 26 | Although this allows fast retrieval of records , it can lead to very low packing density of data because there may be many additions in one area and few in others . |
| 27 | We have seen that there may be many punishment strategies , and relative to anyone of them there may be a very large set of sustainable price-output configurations . |
| 28 | Judicial intervention which occurs only when the resultant agency decision is substantively arbitrary will be insufficient , because there may be many instances when it falls short of this , but still wholly or partially ignores the views of interested parties . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know , Sir John , but there may be many logical explanations . |
| 30 | We have had troubles in various parts of the country in recent months , and I realise that there may be many reasons for that , but I am convinced that one of them is the depressing effect that such areas have on those who live in them . |