Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [ex0] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now we must shift from thinking that human interests always come first to the idea that humans themselves should bear the cost of whatever progress there should be in the world today .
2 It was hard to see what future there could be for the embittered and ranting Nazi or his new and pretty wife , other than a steady descent into the poverty of hired rooms and unpaid bills .
3 So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority .
4 whatever disagreement there may be about size , there can be no doubt that this sector will not disappear easily and there is every evidence to show that with the economic crises of the 1980s , it has been increasing .
5 The paper will then focus on records in the scientific arena , as an example , to illustrate what impact there could be to historical research because of their electronic nature .
6 Nether Wyresdale Parish Council has asked me to find out what consultation there will be with Parish Councils and other bodies on this matter .
7 Burgess did n't much like leaving whatever risk there might be to the Inspector , but he did as he was told .
8 Conversation analysis , which is sometimes regarded as distinct from discourse analysis ( Levinson 1983:286 ) , is a branch of study which sets out to discover what order there might be in this apparent chaos .
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