Example sentences of "there can [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be little doubt that such examples represent the tip of an iceberg . |
| 2 | There can be no doubt that the climate of Japan imposed on her artists a different attitude towards art problems . |
| 3 | For example , Chadwick states : ‘ There can be no simple category defined as ‘ feminist art history ’ , since the effect of new ideas is that ‘ much recent scholarly writing has shifted attention from the categories ‘ art ’ and ‘ artist ’ to broader issues concerning ideologies of gender , sexuality , and power ’ . |
| 4 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 5 | There can be no claim that this is what Roth really thinks : the affidavit that might have been contained in The Facts has been withheld . |
| 6 | But about many of its manifestations there can be something ominous — something that is acutely understood and eloquently exposed in The Counterlife . |
| 7 | There can be no doubt that he had an ear for what such people have to say for themselves . |
| 8 | The shortest stories in Greyhound for Breakfast owe a lot to Kafka 's briefer parables , though they are apt to be more difficult to understand ; and there can be no doubt that Beckett 's solipsistic tramps have left an impression on the earlier writings . |
| 9 | Also , there can be no doubt that the South would intervene in the North on behalf of the catholic — nationalist minority if Britain withdrew and civil war broke out . |
| 10 | However , there can be little doubt that significant numbers of protestant loyalists see themselves as a distinct , almost ethnic group . |
| 11 | There can be little doubt , however , that a sense of God 's presence and of the supernatural in general were long-standing characteristics of Irish popular religion , along with magical and semi-magical local religious practices . |
| 12 | Though opinion in the South gradually softened , there can be little doubt that the obverse would have been the case had the British government not changed tack and demurred at an openly repressive strategy . |
| 13 | From the point of view of the issue of law , there can be no doubt as to the influence both of the constitution of 1937 in the period following its enactment and of the influence of Roman catholic teaching on legislation prior to that date . |
| 14 | There can be no doubt that the lack of such a programme bore heavily upon the poor , and that poor health and mortalities were a consequence . |
| 15 | There can be no question that the bishops are not in any way aware of this arrogation , as it is mediated in consciousness by their belief in , and conceptualization of , a static natural law which is accessible , even if with difficulty , to the conscience of everyman ; which same natural law no one should be allowed to violate , even if in error , when that law , if broken , is seen to threaten the very moral fabric of society . |
| 16 | There can be no summation for him because there is nothing there to sum up . |
| 17 | There can be no title , he wrote , because there is no object . |
| 18 | There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ? |
| 19 | Even in light winds there can be a venturi effect sufficient to blow the gliders about . |
| 20 | Finally , below a few hundred feet , if no definite field has been chosen there can be little or no choice , and an accident is almost certain to happen . |
| 21 | When you are tired out and upset with yourself for not having taken that extra piece of lift some miles back , there can be a tendency to become apathetic and not even try to prevent an accident . |
| 22 | There can be no doubt that something of this sort took place at this time in Montreal , and that it forms one of the subconscious inputs in the growing boy 's development , along with the high family traditions and the significance of his names . |
| 23 | There can be no doubt that he was devoted to his father — his first book , published 13 years later , was dedicated ‘ To the memory of my father : Nathan B. Cohen ’ and there are a number of references to him in Leonard 's work . |
| 24 | Whether there can be a true ‘ Oedipal struggle ’ with a very sick , and then absent , father is a mute point . |
| 25 | Professor Pacey referred to Layton as ‘ a poet of revolutionary individualism , ’ and there can be no doubt that that individualism was a common tie , and not merely religiously but in every way . |
| 26 | If there were no refractoriness ( no failures to experience X when trying to have an X-experience ) there could be no basis on which to draw a distinction between appearance and reality , and without this distinction there can be no possibility of thinking about reality . |
| 27 | Without cognisant acts there can be no beliefs about phenomenology : no phenomenology without self-ascription , and no self-ascription without mental actions . |
| 28 | This is an area of some controversy at the moment in psychology , where one of the holy grails is the attempt to provide empirical evidence for the intuitively reasonable idea that there can be a dissociation of behaviour from consciousness . |
| 29 | ( This implies of course that consciousness in animals is a hypothesis for which there can be no evidence at all unless we resort to anthropomorphism , which we usually do . ) |
| 30 | Both laws are derived from observations and there can be no doubt about their empirical credentials . |