Example sentences of "there may [adv] be [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These negotiations , of course , cost a supplier a considerable amount of cash for which there may ultimately be no pay-back .
2 There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box .
3 Bearing all this in mind , what are we to make of Searle 's ( 1984 ) claim that the brain does not identify faces via information processing of the kind described in cognitive models and that , as far as the cognitive sciences are concerned , there may simply be no story to tell ?
4 There may yet be an outbreak of panic .
5 True , there may yet be the possibility of repentance as the time for using the explosives draws near , but the very step of taking explosives into one 's Possession with this intent is culpable .
6 There may even be a danger that CAD ( Computer Aided Design ) for example may largely replace ‘ practice ’ .
7 In chapter 9.27 there may even be an allusion to an agreement between Antiochus and the Hellenizers ( " and he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week " ) .
8 ‘ And there may even be an ale house to brighten our way , ’ Ratagan added .
9 If there is a relationship between eyedness and handedness then there may also be a relationship between eyedness and brainedness .
10 There may also be a relationship between the default rate and inflation .
11 There may also be a contract of sale with respect to a future contingency so that s5(2) of SGA 1979 states : ( 2 ) There may be a contract for the sale of goods the acquisition of which by the seller depends on a contingency which may or may not happen .
12 There may also be a tendency , as the Public Accounts Committee ( 1986–7c , para. 23 ) has warned , for ‘ top management systems … to be regarded as a substitute for FMI , rather than an integral part of it ’ .
13 There may also be a possibility of a demand for retirement or starter homes .
14 There may also be a handling fee .
15 There may also be a degree of enlargement of the lymph nodes in the groin .
16 There may also be a degree of self-deception , or at least lack of clarity , on the crucial issue of the distinction between means and ends : is growth seen as a means to long-term profitability , or are profits required as a pre-condition of growth ?
17 Many local authorities , however , do not pay bureaux managers at this rate and although the shortfall will always be attributed to budgetary constraints , there may also be a lack of awareness of what the position entails .
18 Am I alone in this room , I wonder , in hoping that at the next accession there may also be a coronation in Scotland , that the regalia of Scotland be bestowed on the Sovereign by the ministers of the Church of Scotland , according to the usage of the Scottish coronation service , long ratified by Scottish law ?
19 There may also be a safety committee set up to consider such matters .
20 There may also be a charge to inheritance tax with regard to that property which was a potentially exempt transfer ; it never in fact became exempt in the end because he ( Mr X ) did not survive seven years .
21 In families where one child is the favourite , the balance of the relationships has gone — and where there is a favourite , there may also be a scapegoat .
22 There may also be a need for changes to criminal damage laws to cover viruses and logic bombs which can corrupt and destroy computer data .
23 There may also be a need for more predictable and controlled behaviour on the part of the labour force , particularly in relation to the calling of strikes ; that is , a desire for labour , as well as for market , regulation and control .
24 There may also be a temptation to include terms which can not be enforced .
25 But Lawrence dramatizes something else : if , within the construction of homosexuality as a fear or refusal of otherness , there may be a projection by the male heterosexual on to the homosexual of his fear of the woman as other , there may also be a disavowal of the heterosexual 's fear of the homosexual as the same — that is , a fear of those gender proximities and interconnections , including Lawrence 's opposed energy ‘ flows ’ , whose feared mutual implication compromises not only the ideology of sexual difference , but the cultural formations which it underwrites .
26 There may also be a reluctance among prosecutors to look beyond the individual driver , pilot , or captain in each case .
27 There is likely to be a far greater appreciation of home comforts but there may also be a reluctance to answer the barrage of questions or to say much about the new life .
28 There may also be a reluctance to move out of the South , in the fear that if house prices in the ‘ North ’ increase at a slower rate , it may be difficult to return to the ‘ South ’ at a later date ( refer also to Chapter 8 , page 107 ) .
29 There may also be a basis of fact , in a planned act of piety , behind the famous story of how Cnut attempted to turn back the waves and then used his failure to demonstrate to his followers the weakness of his power compared with that of the king of heaven .
30 There may also be a desire to utilise comparative studies for practical policy considerations by attempting to derive ‘ lessons ’ from overseas experience .
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