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

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1 But Hari had ambition , she wanted to raise her business to great heights ; to one day own an emporium where there would be shoes of all descriptions , serving the best customers in the country .
2 Father 's going to take you to market tomorrow , where there 'll be crowds of people ready to pay for entertainment !
3 And I think that the argument has been that on the whole discipline the use of discipline simply to punish drinking is n't going to be appropriate , although there may be forms of behaviour produced by excessive drinking that it 's appropriate to act against .
4 There is a substantial belief in ‘ scientific management ’ in enterprises and although there may be modifications of this basic notion it remains remarkably robust .
5 Determining the parties to a treaty is usually straightforward , although there can be problems of substance and evidence .
6 Therefore , although there will be examples of honest signals , manipulatory signals are probably commoner in nature .
7 The Royal Commission did , however , recognise that custody and charge would not necessarily coincide , and that there might be intervals of time whilst the suspect was under arrest but not yet charged , and whilst he was on bail after being charged ; and the recommendation was made that the prohibition of questioning should also apply to these periods .
8 I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time .
9 His opposition and resistance to war as a means of solving problems is total and yet his adherence to the principle of ahi sā does not mean a failure to recognize that there might be situations of moral dilemma in which different moral considerations apply for different people .
10 Scowling , he sniffed his palms , thinking that there might be traces of some drug in his sweat .
11 It implied that there would be ways of modifying it , just as peripheral transmission at ganglia could be blocked by methonium compounds and transmission at certain nerve endings by beta-blockers ( see Chapter 12 ) .
12 Roman had already declared in July that there would be prosecutions of miners .
13 Food importers said supermarkets were stockpiling tinned supplies and gave warning that there would be shortages of pilchards and corned beef within a few weeks .
14 ( It is possible that there may be areas of the Universe where antimatter galaxies , stars , planets and even life exist , but we have no evidence of this . )
15 Lord Diplock says that there may be differences of opinion as to what is expedient , just and moral , and that Parliament 's opinion on these questions is paramount .
16 And the central reasons for rejecting the ‘ humanist ’ paradigm of the self — as I have outlined it above — are , firstly , that there may be aspects of the development of self which are not easily accessible to consciousness , and secondly , that there are conscious experiences which are not easy to make intelligible within the humanist paradigm .
17 Also the smart executive is aware , especially in the early stages of examining a strategic move , that there may be perspectives of which he is unaware .
18 The imbalance between the parties does not mean that all disputes ought to be resolved in court , rather it suggests that there may be methods of organising dispute resolution which are fairer for the parties involved .
19 What is much more interesting , I have already suggested , is the idea that there could be patterns of behaviour which human beings are entirely capable of wanting and indeed , on an individual or limited scale , of achieving , but which for biological reasons are bound to be psychologically costly , or confined to a small group of otherwise unusual individuals , or otherwise bound to fail as general social institutions .
20 The nature of matters which would be characterised as collateral or preliminary was still difficult to determine and it was admitted that there could be errors of law within jurisdiction which , if they appeared on the face of the record , would be quashed .
21 We could suggest that there could be beliefs of type 1 if there were beliefs which were justified by appeal to the facts and that a belief could be so justified if it was caused by the facts .
22 What emerges from this example is that there can be situations of moral dilemma which impose limits on what it is possible for someone to do .
23 They are also worried that road damage caused by existing lorry movements will be made worse , and that there will be problems of noise and dust .
24 Subtitled How The World Will Change In The Depression Of The 1990s , its central hypothesis is that we are headed for a major depression , that deflation will return , that property prices will collapse by two-thirds , that Islam will pour into the power vacuum left by communism , that taxes will soar , that many major corporations will cease to exist , that anyone wealthy enough will flee big cities and away from the gangs controlling them , that countries like India , Canada , South Africa and Israel will fall to bits , that there will be plagues of locusts and frogs and that firstborn sons ought to head for the hills while they 've got the chance .
25 Whether personal counselling takes the form of individual contact or family contact of self-help discussion in groups , it will be important to keep in touch with the notion that there will be stages of recovery , just as in the mourning process .
26 In this case , I fear that there will be delusions of persecution . ’
27 It means that there must be constant vigilance by the authorities ; it means that there must be methods of responding swiftly to alarm bells that may be rung either by staff or by children and that there must be alarm bells that can , in real life , be rung .
28 However , as we said in the last chapter , it seems to be a condition for the strength and toughness of materials of this type that there should be planes of weakness parallel to the strongest direction .
29 A pragmatic view is that an aesthetic experience is what is described as such , and as there are varieties of religious experience , so there may be varieties of aesthetic experience .
30 As Table 1.4 showed , the ‘ duplication ’ of the universities and polytechnic/colleges in professional courses is more apparent than real , since certain types of professional courses are largely concentrated in one sector and there may be differences of emphasis between courses in the same subject .
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