Example sentences of "there [modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives say there must have been other people in the area around the time of this latest attack who could help their search . |
| 2 | Clive Lloyd is one of the best-loved cricketers ever to walk on to a field , but after the relentless domination of his four-man pace attack there must have been many people who permitted themselves a smile at the news . |
| 3 | When the Renault RSO1 1500 cc turbo-charged car failed on lap 17 of the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone , there must have been many people who did not see a future for this power-booster , particularly as it was the turbo-charger that caused the car 's withdrawal from the race . |
| 4 | ‘ By the time the doors opened there must have been 100 people . |
| 5 | You do realize though that there must have been some people who were saddened by the fact you did n't continue your pop career ? |
| 6 | The last of the finals was on Saturday night ( after a luncheon at the Rivercrest Country Club ) , with works of Chopin , Brahms and Rachmaninov that we had come to know and love ; and there must have been 700 people at the Forth Worth Club party afterwards . |
| 7 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
| 8 | Now , if she had gone to lunch with Dorothea Shottery after all , there would have been three people to talk to . |
| 9 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |