Example sentences of "[noun] [ex0] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to see what future there could be for the embittered and ranting Nazi or his new and pretty wife , other than a steady descent into the poverty of hired rooms and unpaid bills . |
| 2 | Whatever doubts there may be about Edward 's commitment to crusade , none can be entertained of John XXII's , for he did all that he could to bring England to a state of peace and Edward to the point of departure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Erm I 'm not at all certain quite er what will come out of that policy and what savings there will be at the end of that exercise . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I also enclose a copy of my letter to the Local Government Commission asking for information on what opportunities there will be for Parish Councils to make their views known on any proposed boundary changes . |
| 7 | The need to prepare schools and help to help schools prepare themselves for the erm review of the national curriculum the changes that they will have to deal with and in particular I think , erm to help secondary schools to come to terms with changes in key stage four and the likely erm opportunities there will be for a more diverse curriculum including eventually er the opportunities for more vocational programmes in schools and to assist schools |
| 8 | So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority . |
| 9 | Small pardon there would be for him if Herluin had his way . |
| 10 | You can imagine what an outcry there 'd be from women if we made some such generalisation about them , but we men are supposed to take this shit . ’ |
| 11 | This is both an interesting topic in itself and a theoretically important one ; for one of the questions I will ask about linguistic reform is what constraints and limitations there might be on its effectiveness . |
| 12 | At the start of the battle there must be at least two Goblins in the unit to carry a prodder fork , and there must be at least five models in total . |
| 13 | ‘ If they all lived , guess how many rats there 'd be in this country in five years . |
| 14 | Whatever advantages there may be to the shareholders in the adoption of one or other of these goals as the object of directors ' duties , liability rules , as will be shown in more detail in section II , are too unsophisticated a control technique to make it possible in practice to discriminate between them . |
| 15 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 16 | whatever disagreement there may be about size , there can be no doubt that this sector will not disappear easily and there is every evidence to show that with the economic crises of the 1980s , it has been increasing . |
| 17 | specify how many lines there should be on each page ; the minimum is 2 if no headings or footings are required , and if headings and footings are required the minimum is 8 . |
| 18 | This means a reasonable length of time to try out the goods generally , not a reasonable length of time in which to discover any defects there might be in the goods , Bernstein v. Pamsons Motors ( Golders Green ) Ltd. ( 1986 Q.B. ) . |
| 19 | Whatever reservations there may be about individual decisions from time to time , the basic premise that most planning decisions should be taken locally has never been seriously challenged . |
| 20 | However , the greater the inherited capital stock , , the less need there will be for adding to the capital stock , or even replacing worn-out equipment . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She almost wanted to cry , he made her so intensely aware , showed her what ecstasies there might be in store … |
| 23 | What a revolution there would be in our behaviour and attitudes if we were to stick to those two principles ! |
| 24 | divide the Listing into a series of smaller , more manageable files by specifying how many pages there should be in a file . |
| 25 | It was hard to see what other political opening there might be for him . |
| 26 | The fall in the shares also reflects the fact that the more Saatchi does to put its house in order , the less chance there will be of a third party doing the job instead . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Apart from these it is meant to account for all the reasons there can be for accepting authorities . |
| 30 | Now we must shift from thinking that human interests always come first to the idea that humans themselves should bear the cost of whatever progress there should be in the world today . |