Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This degree of self-inflicted pain , which might be something to do with his opium , clearly though is starting to challenge his conceptions about himself , and therefore about the world . |
| 2 | At least she 'll be someone to talk to . |
| 3 | ‘ You should buy one at Paderborn , there may be something to photograph . |
| 4 | Of course , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , there may be nothing to leave , nothing to explain , nothing to understand , even though I have prepared long enough and only started when the time was ripe , even though I began full of confidence and managed to persuade myself , for a while , that I was well under way . |
| 5 | There must be something to individuate the thinking in question . |
| 6 | Mrs Aggie gave her a shilling a week , because , as she said , she was her assistant ; for there must be someone to hold the horse and look after the cart and see that the children did n't nick … steal the clothes off it . |
| 7 | There must be someone to fit the bill in the League of Ireland Declan ? |
| 8 | As you will see from Chapter 5 , investment can take many different forms and among the list of different options there should be something to suit almost everyone . |
| 9 | A wide range of other indoor and outdoor activities means that there should be something to suit all tastes . |
| 10 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |
| 11 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 12 | So I decided , right from the beginning , there should be nothing to suggest walking . |
| 13 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 14 | There 'll be plenty to do . |
| 15 | If they kill Ember there 'll be no-one to protect me . |
| 16 | There 'll be someone to see you in a minute . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ There 'll be someone to take his place soon enough but with any luck they 'll just stick to violence . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 'll be great , Julie , I 've got a lot of people I want you to meet , and there 'll be lots to drink — You are coming , are n't you ? |
| 19 | I 'm sure there 'll be lots to read about that man Sydney burrows . |
| 20 | He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course I care , there 'd be nobody to sew my buttons on if you were dead . ’ |
| 22 | You said a moment ago that there 'd be someone to organize transport . |
| 23 | There would be nobody to meet her in London because she had not bothered to let Glyn know she was coming back . |
| 24 | They had a wooden hut built up there especially to have their lunch in , and there would be plenty to drink , including a hogshead of beer . |
| 25 | Secondly , the film suggests that Walter is thrown into a harrowing situation because his parents are dead , compounding the fears of many people that if they had a mentally handicapped child , there would be no-one to look after him or her if they died . |
| 26 | The sealing tape was left in open view , so that if the box was opened by security during the journey , there would be something to reseal it with . |
| 27 | Once I got the hang of it , I had been telling myself smugly , there would be nothing to stop us having a marvelous time for a glorious night and a day … |
| 28 | But , if the material is commonplace , there would be nothing to stop an ex-employee deriving the same or similar material again as long as he did not simply copy his employer 's material . |
| 29 | If none of the light bounced off the electron into the microscope there would be nothing to see . |
| 30 | Perhaps there would be nothing to see , and their manifestation would simply be advertised by an intense cold in the room or a sparkling plasma . |