Example sentences of "there [vb mod] [be] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman who became a man 20 years ago says there may be up to 60 transsexuals living in County Durham . |
| 2 | Yet there may be less to this unambiguous declaration than meets the eye . |
| 3 | There may be more to it . |
| 4 | But there may be more to this than comradely debate . |
| 5 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 6 | She said there must be more to it than just worrying about wanting a small waist , and she was right : out it came . |
| 7 | It is so simple that I have known clever men misunderstand it completely , thinking that there must be more to it ! |
| 8 | But I ca n't help feeling that there must be more to it than that . |
| 9 | And I 've had at least three real girlfriends , so there must be more to me than bad skin , frizzy hair and a slouch . |
| 10 | Or we can decide that there must be more to being alive than this and , like Jonathan Livingston Seagull , become intrepid explorers of life 's possibilities . |
| 11 | In the same way that the spectacle of a butterfly or a peacock still arouses the feeling that there must be more to it than evolution , consciousness insists there must be more to itself than that . |
| 12 | In the same way that the spectacle of a butterfly or a peacock still arouses the feeling that there must be more to it than evolution , consciousness insists there must be more to itself than that . |
| 13 | Admittedly they were only nineteen , but surely , he reasoned , there must be more to married life than this ? |
| 14 | SO MANY have praised Graeme Hick that there must be more to him than has been revealed . |
| 15 | There must be more to this country squire than was disclosed by his clipped mannerisms and his habit of smiling each time he spoke , as though to ease his way through a dubious world . |
| 16 | There must be more to him than Beatrice thought . |
| 17 | It all started when he decided there must be more to life than selling plants and motor spares , and set off to seek his fortune in Australia with £100 in his pocket . |
| 18 | Without sounding too clichéd about it , there should be more to it than that . |
| 19 | Like many people , maybe you 're feeling that there should be more to a summer holiday than sun , sea and of course , crowds . |
| 20 | There should be more to alternative comedy than saying FILOFAX . |
| 21 | It seemed to the hedgehog that there should be more to it than that . |
| 22 | And if you 're old or poor or handicapped or just think there should be more to life than this — then go to hell . |
| 23 | Regardless of the pit closure programme ta erm we 're in full flight erm at the end of the day we could be looking at a situation with four pits remaining in Nottinghamshire er and to that extent there 'll be up to four thousand miners still reliant on the services of , should er remain open . |
| 24 | Over six days there 'll be up to 150,000 shots … scattering more than four tons of lead pellets . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he perked up , ‘ if it is the Old Ones , it would explain the telepathic pollution , and there 'll be more to it that we have n't thought about yet , but we 'll find out later . ’ |
| 26 | Trying to mentally recall a map of the island , the Doctor did n't think there was anything of importance further along the line inland , but he wondered what there might be out to sea … . |
| 27 | In post-industrial Britain both the self-satisfied and the desperate are able to feel justified in clinging on to what they have , or grabbing what they have n't ; at no time — even in the middle of the Live Aid telethon — is there a suggestion that there might be more to life than such behaviour . |
| 28 | Or there might be more to it than that . |
| 29 | An active group of villagers discovered that there could be up to eighty of these heavy loads . |
| 30 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |