Example sentences of "there [modal v] be certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the fragmented and busy nature of our lives , there may be certain stages of preparation needed to approach God in this way . |
| 2 | In contrast there may be certain parts of the world — Siberia has been suggested — where it may be important , because of the presence of energy or raw materials or for other strategic reasons , to have integrated factories where the emphasis is on minimising the number of people employed at that location ( Hatvany et al. n.d . ) . |
| 3 | Also , particularly if you are self-employed or own a business , there may be certain tax advantages as well as possible scope for improving your pension . |
| 4 | If you have a limb disability you may still be entitled to a licence , but there may be certain restrictions . |
| 5 | One point he made which I have rarely seen put forward so well : that the audience can not be expected to follow any profound drama at all levels at once , and that there may be certain aspects which remain beyond the audience 's comprehension altogether . |
| 6 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 7 | There may be certain special conditions that are unacceptable . |
| 8 | Evidently in positing a given object as an ontological individual I am at the same time committed to accepting that contextually there must be certain criteria whereby such an individual can be meaningfully referred to as numerically the same . |
| 9 | I wonder why , I wonder why you get that when you go home , there must be certain signs . |
| 10 | Whilst there might be certain advantages to be gained from the inclusion of a broader range of aggravating features in the higher categories , these are probably outweighed by the complexity this would produce . |
| 11 | I do n't think the society I do n't think people will want this , but there could be certain things which could be quite convenient . |
| 12 | Obviously , since the whole economy was engaged in this process there could not be , according To Bukharin , a wholly unbalanced growth , even though there would be certain imbalances as a result of growth taking place in different sectors at somewhat different rates . |
| 13 | Among the alternatives to inter-governmental co-operation some talked of creating a ‘ confederation ’ in which there would be certain central institutions whilst most authority rested with member states . |
| 14 | And although it may smack of determinism , there will be certain laws that if a brick or apple is dropped , they will fall to the ground , the latter getting bruised . |
| 15 | This approach accepts that in any merger there will be certain benefits and certain disadvantages ( ie costs ) and that some sort of assessment has to be made in order to consider the overall impact . |
| 16 | There will be certain positions in which such sheets of spheres will lie on each other as close together as possible . |
| 17 | It is possible to build a new flue , either inside or outside , but there will be certain regulations to comply with . |
| 18 | There will be certain physical mechanisms such as telephones , typewriters and computers but the flow of energy is trivial and the interest centres entirely on the flow of information . |
| 19 | C There will be certain knowledge and skills that you will need to acquire while working in the surgical ward . |
| 20 | Parsons recognizes that in Western industrial society ‘ There will be certain tendencies to arrogance on the part of some winners and to resentment and to a ‘ sour grapes ’ attitude on the part of some losers ' . |
| 21 | When the magnetic field is moved bodily there will be certain places in space where the magnitude of the magnetic field is changing ( shaded areas in Fig. 4.12 ) as a function of time , and that changing magnetic field can give rise to an electric field at x = 0 . |
| 22 | In our consultation paper , and now in the Bill , we have recognised further that there will be certain circumstances in which it would be inappropriate for members of a household to add to that household 's bill . |
| 23 | You may find it useful to have a user directory for the LIFESPAN Manager ; there will be certain command files etc. which you may wish to build for routine activities , and keeping them out of SYS$LIFESPAN : is helpful , as discussed in Appendix A. Whether you then choose to have this directory or SYS$LIFESPAN : as the LIFESPAN Manager 's default directory is up to you . |
| 24 | There will be certain discussions which I 'll go into in a minute , at the at that stage which will determine what we 're going to do for them . |
| 25 | So er because there will be certain input from the factories . |