Example sentences of "there [modal v] [verb] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 2 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 3 | On May 19th seven civil servants were fired ( though , in one of many farcical moves , five have now been unfired ) among muttering that there may have been criminality in the office . |
| 4 | There may have been press briefings by regulatory bodies during and after the Blue Arrow inquiry which he said called into question their impartiality . |
| 5 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 6 | Since a mother generally has a new baby every four and a half years , there may have been pressure on her to speed up each youngster 's training , to leave time to care for the latest addition to the family . |
| 7 | Except in very specific cases Sidonius 's attitudes and style encourage the reader to see continuity where there may have been disruption . |
| 8 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 9 | There must have been interference with performance of a contract |
| 10 | Sometimes it may seem obvious that there must have been negligence , as in the case of the purchaser of a bath bun who found a stone in the middle of it ( Chaproniere v. Mason ( 1905 C.A. ) ) . |
| 11 | At times in the past there must have been tenderness between the members of this family ; the old lady had conceived and given birth to two children , nursed them and watched them grow into adult life . |
| 12 | ‘ There must have been blood on their clothes or something . ’ |
| 13 | They , they we they had some guns on the castle and they were , I suppose there must have been enemy planes over . |
| 14 | Some were growing beards and going bald which may not seem like drastic changes , but in the women there must have been side effects from changing your course of pills . |
| 15 | it always starts but I feel there must have been fuel evaporation . |
| 16 | He did well financially , through the sale of medicines ; yet there must have been disappointment , even before his untimely death , at the lack of real academic achievement in his laboratory . |
| 17 | For a fire to have taken place , there must have been combustion , that is the violent chemical combination of a substance with oxygen in a manner that generates a quantity of heat and some light . |
| 18 | An arm came loose and fell off , revealing scrunched up newsprint where there should have been ligament , bone and muscle . |
| 19 | And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out . |
| 20 | ‘ There might have been coercion , ’ Naseby muttered hopefully . |
| 21 | Like my Lord , Hodson L.J. , I prefer to base my judgment on that ground rather than on the alternative ground — that apart from any question of an offer by the wife to return , while she was still in desertion , there might have been trouble , expense or embarrassment if the wife had incurred debts . |
| 22 | Peggy pulled down the orange sheets of plastic intended to keep the glare off her goods in the window , both in summer when there might have been sunshine and in winter when it was unnecessary . |
| 23 | Some amendment of the 1947 Act was clearly desirable , but though there might have been agreement on this , there was no agreement on what the amendments should be . |
| 24 | So there could have been conversation I did n't pick up — scrambled by the radio . ’ |
| 25 | If she 'd fought the rape there 'd have been skin from her attacker under the fingernails . |
| 26 | ‘ No , and if it was the shot that killed Sabine Jourdain there 'd have been blood in the lounge . |
| 27 | ‘ In that case there 'd have been blood on the ground , ’ Melissa pointed out . |
| 28 | On his left — but for the bungaloid eruption — ; there would have been sand dunes going down to the deep blue sea of the Channel ; the stretch of golden sand — had it not been for the litter — making a gentle curve for five miles . |
| 29 | Clearly , there would have been conflict and confusion over what had and had not been devolved . |
| 30 | Refuge theory would predict that where forest now stands today , there would have been savanna and that the higher wetter country would have been the ‘ refugia ’ in glacial times . |