Example sentences of "there [vb mod] [be] [noun pl] to " in BNC.

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1 Even then , there may be limits to an exclusion — if it is drawn so widely as to protect a party from all liability , even for total non-performance , its effect may be that the party has promised nothing ; there is therefore no contract , or at best only a unilateral one .
2 Previous research has suggested that there may be barriers to particular types of occupation which selectively prevent women from entering them .
3 There may be questions to be asked and problems to be solved concerning the implementation of this programme .
4 Mussels : mussels keep longer in cold weather , so there may be bargains to be had .
5 Seventh , there may be blocks to the flow of electrical energy in the acupuncture meridians .
6 Local authorities often charge a different fee to their own residents and ratepayers than to outsiders , although there may be concessions to former residents and community charge payers .
7 This might be the case with provocation , for example : there may be objections to some of the distinctions now drawn by the law of provocation , but a broader defence of extreme emotional disturbance might provide for reduction of the offence in cases of loss of self-control when caring for a baby or when arrested by a police-officer known to be acting lawfully , and some might feel that there are strong arguments against this .
8 There may be references to ‘ second-order questions ’ or ‘ metatheories ’ , and if the process becomes sustained and systematic , the word philosophy tends to creep in .
9 Lautro accepts that some of the facts were mistaken and that there may be qualifications to some of the allegations .
10 There must be limits to the power of consumerism .
11 If , therefore , some are to have priority over others there must be provisions to this effect in the terms of issue .
12 There must be lessons to be learned in all of that .
13 If the ‘ emancipation ’ of women has yet to run its full course , there should be limits to the extent one would expect it to have influenced demographic trends .
14 Additionally , there should be objectives to :
15 There might be alternatives to using a grid .
16 A minority of Tories were prepared to concede that there could be exceptions to the theory of non-resistance in extremis , and in this they admittedly came close to the doctrine of some of the more conservative Whigs .
17 They failed to obtain any long-term understanding on future regional coal price differentials from the National Coal Board , but their discussions did seem to indicate that there would be advantages to shifting away from the high-cost coalfields of Kent , South Wales and Scotland , and towards the cheaper coal of the East Midlands and Yorkshire .
18 Pask stonewalled , claiming variously that he had no staff to answer questions , that only one boiler-maker in Britain was capable of making unit boilers for large sets , that they would encounter operational difficulties , that there would be economies to replication of smaller sets , that larger sets were more expensive than small ones , and that station layouts would not accommodate them .
19 ‘ Perhaps there would be guests to be welcomed — travellers , or merchants from the East who would display their wares of silk or gold or ivory , ’ said Oisin .
20 There will be visits to major publishers and a number of booksellers , offering participants a behind-the-scenes view of the German trade .
21 If the formal organisation is highly centralised , there will be limits to how far a task can be restructured by an individual manager .
22 f ) Availability of data : there will be limits to the kind of information that is readily accessible , and to the finance available to obtain it .
23 In future , it would be better to assume that there will be amendments to the data , both when commissioning software and when planning storage and distribution arrangements .
24 For people who own gardens the simplest solution is probably a small plot , clearly marked , although there can be disadvantages to this solution .
25 As noted above , there can be exceptions to the vertical aggregate supply curve when changes are unanticipated .
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