Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [ex0] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found it hard to understand what all the fuss was about , what possible pleasure there could be in waving a stick about for hours , catching nothing . |
| 2 | Whatever cultural variation there may be in pragmatic interpretation , we may be sure that its interaction with form is language specific . |
| 3 | Whatever theoretical justification there might be for a dual market it would appear increasingly unjust . |
| 4 | The country does not have enough engineers , technicians and technician engineers to meet present demands and we are well aware of the additional shortfall there will be in the 21st century created by the ‘ demographic shift ’ of the 1990s , unless more young people , especially girls , take up these careers . |
| 5 | What personal records there may be of more general ‘ social life ’ have the limitations that their authors are rarely ‘ ordinary ’ people . |
| 6 | On the contrary : once again it is hard to see what democratic objection there can be to the principle of allowing the people themselves to decide on major issues of principle . |
| 7 | In the case of surveys there will always be some form of pilot survey before the researcher commits himself to the main fieldwork itself , and the more planning there is done beforehand , the less wasted time there will be in the fieldwork proper , and the easier will be the next stage , which is the analysis of the data collected . |
| 8 | It was hard to see what other political opening there might be for him . |
| 9 | The country does not have enough engineers , technicians and technician engineers to meet present demands , and we are very well aware of the great shortfall there will be in the 21st century unless more young people , especially girls , take up these careers ! |
| 10 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 11 | Erm he erm I should say at a rough guess there would be at least eight . |
| 12 | Small pardon there would be for him if Herluin had his way . |
| 13 | Even if your usual practice is to use handwritten notes there will be times when typed notes are preferable such as a difficult telephone conversation that you want on the record or a list of action points arising out of the meeting . |
| 14 | Consensus theorists allocated a very important role to values ; whatever differences in expected behaviour there may be between different groups within a society they consider that a general consensus on the most significant values — central values — must exist for any society to operate satisfactorily . |
| 15 | Now , suppose that the buyer had agreed to pay £2,000 ( for the goods , a load of timber ) and had actually paid the £2,000 but that the contract reserved title to the seller until the buyer had satisfied all his liabilities towards the seller ( i.e. under not only this contract but also any other contracts there might be between them ) . |
| 16 | According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance . |
| 17 | He states ‘ whatever internal divisions there may be within the business class are secondary to their common interests in the continuing success of big business as a whole ’ . |
| 18 | What is to be understood as happening is perhaps that , given that someone wants to be Christian , she as a feminist will look for what female representation there may be in the religion , whether or not this is fully satisfactory . |
| 19 | We do this by assuming that it is in fact cooperative , and then asking ourselves what possible connection there could be between the location of Bill and the location of a yellow VW , and thus arrive at the suggestion ( which B effectively conveys ) that , if Bill has a yellow VW , he may be in Sue 's house . |
| 20 | The more a theory claims , the more potential opportunities there will be for showing that the world does not in fact behave in the way laid down by the theory . |