Example sentences of "that there be [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 2 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 3 | This means that the framework for any activity is itself communicative i.e. that there is something to be communicated to someone for some purpose . |
| 4 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 5 | Yet the difficulties which some governments have experienced in recent years in delivering political promises that the size of the bureaucracy would be reduced suggest that there is something to the foundation upon which economic models of bureaucracy have been built . |
| 6 | Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern . |
| 7 | I just hope that there is nothing to this Werner business . |
| 8 | While rejecting the detailed application of management approaches from an industrial or commercial environment into schools , we should not fall into the belief that there is nothing to be learned from such experience — for in the right conditions there is . |
| 9 | Some adolescents may need reassuring that there is nothing to be afraid of or ashamed about in night emissions or monthly periods . |
| 10 | The disappointment in the parents , the justified reproach that they do not get from the parents what they need , leads to youth 's contempt of civilization , of cultural tradition , and to the opinion that there is nothing to be learned from the history of human development . |
| 11 | " Gentlemen , " interrupted the Collector , " it 's clear that the difference between you is a deeply felt and scientific one which none of us here are qualified for adjudicating To an impartial observer it seems that there 's something to be said on either side … |
| 12 | The problem for the Scots this time , whatever their varying political and religious persuasions , was that there was no-one to whom they could turn as a counter-weight . |
| 13 | The Sunday Times reporter Peter Gillman recounts how the Panel went to the Trading Standards Office at Bodmin but was told that there was nothing to be done because water was not covered by the Food Act . |
| 14 | At length she decided that there was nothing to be gained by worrying her . |
| 15 | She told me that there was nothing to be said for death , nothing in mitigation : it was extinction , the end . |
| 16 | By the end of February 1941 , however , Axis interest in the Spanish offer had subsided considerably : Hitler 's attention was focused on the Soviet Union ; Ribbentrop had instructed Stohrer to desist from his attempts to secure active Spanish participation ; and Mussolini had reached the conclusion that there was nothing to be gained by pressing Spain further . |
| 17 | They have agreed that there was something to be discussed . |
| 18 | That January in 1941 the plans were entirely personal , however , because Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott had difficulty persuading the Force Commanders that there was anything to be gained from beach reconnaissance . |