Example sentences of "[ex0] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 How can there be with England lining up a record-breaking third Grand Slam in a row ?
2 What pressures might there be on older females , and males , to shoplift ?
3 What harm could there be on this night of all nights , the dowager-duchess asked herself , in Joan de Warenne representing her who is in fact her half-sister ?
4 ’ What better revenge can there be on an unfaithful mother who gives her body to another than to reject her , and with her the principle of nourishment , in becoming anorexic ?
5 How many crew would there be on the Brandon ?
6 Fly over the solitary rock washed by the glacial tears of sorrow , let there be at your passing , a radiant beam over the gloomy solitary rock .
7 Where an instrumental ensemble is employed , with or without singers , it is necessary that there be at least a leader , if not a conductor .
8 So how many departments would there be at at the time ?
9 The Stock Exchange requires that there be at least 100 shareholders and that 25 per cent of the shares be held by the general public .
10 We therefore have to know : what sort of presence could there be of a God to whom there applied none of the limitations that applied to finite human existence ?
11 What better evidence could there be of a nation at ease with itself ?
12 What proof can there be of a man 's feelings ?
13 But what better opportunity could there be of examining the fate of those seeds of reason that might be cast on the stony ground of the communal intelligence ?
14 What possible harm can there be to the Post Office from more competition ?
15 Could I ask Mr Chairman , just as a matter of interest , it 's first community care as much as I , , really , erm , what , what if any , erm , alteration will there be to the volunt to volunteers that continue at the moment , will
16 What protection will there be for potentially unprofitable , yet necessary services to continue to be available under the NHS ?
17 The virtual demise of modern constitutional history as a subject of study has meant that there has been hardly any analysis of the major constitutional questions which arise out of the crisis — what role did the king play , what are the relative rights of the Prime Minister vis-à-vis his Cabinet , what is the relative importance of party and of the ‘ national interest ’ , and what justification can there be for a peacetime coalition government ?
18 Later it was even specified that should there be for any reason no foreskin to sever , blood must still be made to flow for a rite to be effected and for the individual to enter the covenant .
19 But what other motive could there be for silence ?
20 What possible justification could there be for such coldness ?
21 And what better solution can there be for a decayed or threatened landscape park than for it to become a deer park once again ?
22 Since there are already hundreds of useless insect repellents on the market , how much more scope would there be for removing money from wilderness lovers , if the product was essential to beat off things with teeth and claws ?
23 What other reason may there be for the watertable sometimes rising rapidly ?
24 Indeed , if the inhibition exists , what need could there be for such a prohibition ?
25 What support will there be for redeployment and retraining : budgets , resources , relocation ?
26 Given that one of the requirements of the order will be the patient agreeing to accept treatment , what possible reason can there be for the order to exist ?
27 Next one I did not complete the survey not because people were away , if people were absent that 's not your fault , what reasons might there be for you not completing the survey , hands up
28 What better incentive could there be for prompting booksellers to escape this predicament and embrace change ? ’
29 What better place than their gloomy underworld could there be for such beliefs ?
30 ‘ What other reason could there be for a girl who looks like you doing your job ? ’
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