Example sentences of "that there [modal v] be something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were promised , many paragraphs ago , that there would be something about advertising , always a jollier subject than starvation . |
| 2 | We thought that there would be something in it , but instead there were just bland generalities . |
| 3 | His arrival at the Ministry has raised hopes that there may be something of particular interest in the Queen 's Speech for those Scottish regiments threatened with amalgamation under Options for Change . |
| 4 | Even so , a verse attributed to the contemporary poet Stefnir Thorgilsson , which refers to a man with a crooked nose who betrayed Swegen out of his land , indicates that there may be something in the exile story after all . |
| 5 | It was the association of hot springs and helium that had made him think that there could be something to Chatterjee 's idea after all , and maybe to the claims by Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 6 | You carry a notebook , like a journalist in a film , and scribble down street conversation — much of it ‘ How are you Mrs Jones ? ’ inanities — in the hope that there will be something at the end of the day to turn into copy . |
| 7 | They can all submit up to five choices , which means that there will be something like eight hundred thousand application forms floating through the system . |
| 8 | First , there was the fact that the crucifix is mentioned in documents as far back as the 1500s , and since what was visible clearly was later in date , restorers reasoned that there must be something underneath it ; then there were the traces of thirteenth-century paint at the foot of the cross . |
| 9 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 10 | I have a sensation of heat as I approach the fire ; but when I approach the same fire too closely , I have a sensation of pain ; so there is nothing to convince me that something in the fire resembles heat , any more than the pain ; it is just that there must be something in it ( whatever this may turn out to be ) that produces the sensations of heat or pain . |
| 11 | Since one thinks that there must be something in common to all good things one may then conclude that it must be pleasure . |
| 12 | Remember that there must be something in writing for each ; no one is trusting memory . |
| 13 | Opening his own door , he thought how great , how truly fantastic it was that there should be something into which they need not yet rush . |
| 14 | The aim is that there should be something for everybody in all parts of the country and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons . ’ |