Example sentences of "[ex0] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Whatever ‘ security ’ there may be in the working for the Church of England has been lost . |
| 34 | As there may be in excess of 1000 mouth to feed , then it can prove difficult to keep up a constant supply of live foods and the authors have found that dried food is adequate as a first food . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Whatever arguments there may be in favour of the independence of members of assemblies or parliaments , it is hard to see what they have to do with representation as it is commonly understood . |
| 37 | Whatever cultural variation there may be in pragmatic interpretation , we may be sure that its interaction with form is language specific . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | And any influence of Cézanne that there may be in the Demoiselles as it now appears is of the most general kind . |
| 40 | Although the characteristic case of an affray involves fighting in public , there may be in cases where there is no actual violence applied to the person of another , since the offence is capable of commission by those who threaten violence . |
| 41 | Let us consider the problems that there may be in proving the more serious offence of criminal damage . |
| 42 | In other words , while there may be in some sense ( possibly a historical one ) a relatively simple form of language in which clauses contain only a single occurrence of assignment , there is also a more elaborate form in which complexes containing assignment can themselves be used as elements in the construction of other clauses ; acceptance of this conclusion is not particularly demanding , given the observable facts of language use . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | erm and get rid of any institutional price setting that there may or wage setting that there may be in those in those industries . |
| 45 | There may be in fact a deficit , and yet we still allow the employer to take money out . |
| 46 | With this class of playing the listener is led to a conviction that at last there may be in due time successors to the distinguished Beaux Arts Trio indeed , in their approach and enjoyment of the music they play there are parallels . |
| 47 | Thus , there may be within the Department of Health and Social Security , a Ministry of Social Security , containing a Pensions Branch . |
| 48 | 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 ’ . |
| 49 | There must be at least one qualifying day in every week of an employee 's contract . |
| 50 | Mr Kinnock 's preference for his successor to be in place by the end of June proved impossible to meet , as the party 's rules decree that there must be at least 12 weeks in which to consult the three groups that make up the electoral college — MPs , constituency activists and the unions . |
| 51 | Their calculations of reaction rates in the Sun 's interior imply that there must be at least 10 20 times as many monopoles in the Sun as is possible according to the limits set by the non-detection of monopoles here on Earth . |
| 52 | For any company there must be at least two subscribers , who will become members . |
| 53 | At present , there must be at least 71 seats for Scotland , 35 for Wales and between 16 and 18 ( presently 17 ) for Northern Ireland ( House of Commons ( Redistribution of Seats ) Acts 1948 , 1958 and 1979 ) . |
| 54 | So far 30,000 arms have been recovered ; there must be at least another 10,000 somewhere . |
| 55 | At the start of the battle there must be at least two Goblins in the unit to carry a prodder fork , and there must be at least five models in total . |
| 56 | At the start of the battle there must be at least two Goblins in the unit to carry a prodder fork , and there must be at least five models in total . |
| 57 | There must be at least one full fare-paying passenger for each child reduction . |
| 58 | There must be at least fifteen founder members who must inter se put up at least 150 million forints , and the statutes of the exchange must be approved by the Minister of Finance . |
| 59 | Problem 1 Assuming , for the moment , the truth of the assertion of uniqueness made in Remark ( iii ) above , one deduces that , amongst the axioms listed for Z , there must be at least one which can not be satisfied by Q. Can you identify which axiom(s) from A1 through to I are not satisfied if one attempts to apply them to Q instead of Z ? |
| 60 | Hence , full partners , of which there must be at least one , are liable to the full extent of their personal assets , as with other forms of partnership . |