Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] room for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should be room for relaxation , for sport , for social and cultural activities as well as academic work . |
| 2 | There 's a special job Preston 's engaged on and I want to come to some arrangement with him — there should be room for both of us — if you would be good enough to tell me when your husband is likely to be back — " |
| 3 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 4 | They 're bigger than us , so there must be room for brains . |
| 5 | I am sure there must be room for training in more specialised technological industries not at present available here . |
| 6 | This social policy might support a duty to enquire about age wherever there might be room for doubt , and the ease of compliance ( because of the inevitable physical proximity of the parties ) again favours the requirement . |
| 7 | Mr. Beloff was not disposed to challenge this proposition although he said there might be room for dispute as to whether some of the damage which has in fact been suffered was caused by Norwich 's termination of the agency agreement . |
| 8 | Mr. Beloff was not disposed to challenge this proposition although he said there might be room for dispute as to whether some of the damage which has in fact been suffered was caused by Norwich 's termination of the agency agreement . |
| 9 | This section of land lies between the canal and the River Tame and leads along to the A5127 northeast-bound where there might be room for a vehicle to pull off the road into the gateway to load up beneath the M6 . |
| 10 | Where they contradicted each other in inessential points there might be room for debate and uncertainty . |
| 11 | In extreme cases all instructions have such unused fields , and then there may be room for two instructions to a word . |
| 12 | Mr. Beloff accepts that there remain issues between Lautro and Winchester and he further accepts that there may be room for argument as to whether the material now available would , if it had been produced before 30 October , have made a difference to the decision taken on that day . |
| 13 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |
| 14 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 15 | The ‘ meaning ’ of the symbols in any information technology is arbitrary , and there is no reason why we should not assign combinations , say triplets , from DNA 's 4-letter alphabet , to letters of our own 26-letter alphabet ( there would be room for all the upper and lower-case letters with 12 punctuation characters ) . |
| 16 | First , there always has been and always will be room for a small shopkeeper with a bright idea . |
| 17 | That is , assuming there will be room for them once the full panoply of testing and assessment is in place . |
| 18 | Check before you buy that there will be room for the drawers to open . |
| 19 | Though space is being yielded by the Department of Printed Books , it seems unlikely there will be room for more than two or three years ' acquisitions . |