Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Small pardon there would be for him if Herluin had his way . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What a revolution there would be in our behaviour and attitudes if we were to stick to those two principles ! |
| 12 | It was hard to see what other political opening there might be for him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With a project of this kind there will be times when very little seems to be happening . |
| 16 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 17 | The paper will then focus on records in the scientific arena , as an example , to illustrate what impact there could be to historical research because of their electronic nature . |
| 18 | In addition to 10 minutes at the beginning for reading the paper there must be at least 20 minutes left at the end for a revision of your work . |
| 19 | Whatever cultural variation there may be in pragmatic interpretation , we may be sure that its interaction with form is language specific . |
| 20 | The country does not have enough engineers , technicians and technician engineers to meet present demands , and we are very well aware of the great shortfall there will be in the 21st century unless more young people , especially girls , take up these careers ! |
| 21 | The country does not have enough engineers , technicians and technician engineers to meet present demands and we are well aware of the additional shortfall there will be in the 21st century created by the ‘ demographic shift ’ of the 1990s , unless more young people , especially girls , take up these careers . |
| 22 | Relief there will be from the grind of the daily pile of constituency correspondence and the regular weekend surgeries . |
| 23 | Following NN we allow for the possibility that the higher the wage the more competition there will be for the job ( ceteris paribus ) and make this a function of w . |
| 24 | If the Legal Aid Board , as the only party adversely affected by the proposed order , has the opportunity to challenge it but decides not to do so , one may ask rhetorically what possible objection of substance there can be to the existing practice . |
| 25 | The more sensitive we are to the possible stigmatising consequences of charity , the less motivation there will be for giving . |
| 26 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council has asked me to find out what consultation there will be with Parish Councils and other bodies on this matter . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , Randall left ambiguous the respective roles of Wilkins and Franklin , and this later led to dissension about the demarcation of the DNA research at King 's , but a letter of his to Franklin in 1950 makes it clear that on ‘ the experimental X-ray effort there would be for the moment only yourself and Gosling ’ . |
| 28 | Erm he erm I should say at a rough guess there would be at least eight . |
| 29 | Whatever theoretical justification there might be for a dual market it would appear increasingly unjust . |
| 30 | Burgess did n't much like leaving whatever risk there might be to the Inspector , but he did as he was told . |