Example sentences of "there [modal v] be [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be conflicts of interest between local management of a branch or subsidiary and the organisation as a whole ; or between sales and production departments in a manufacturing firm ( over scheduling , product variation etc ) ; or between trade unions and management . |
| 2 | There may be conflicts of interest between managers and shareholders , and the managers may have latitude to interpret the wishes of the owners and to pursue their own objectives . |
| 3 | In public bureaucracies there may be conflicts of interest between different levels of the hierarchy arising from the values which different strata bring to bear on the policies being pursued by the government . |
| 4 | There may be subtleties of interaction below the soil surface of which we know little or nothing . |
| 5 | Although there may be discussion of specific types of offence , the committees are not empowered to discuss individual cases or deal with complaints against individual officers . |
| 6 | There may be evidence of a urethritis in the female , but it is more common for there to be a cervicitis . |
| 7 | There may be areas of the garden which are specially suitable for the patient to work in : he needs to be able to reach the soil with his hands or tools without risking scratching himself on thorny plants or hitting his head or eyes on jutting or overhanging branches . |
| 8 | ( It is possible that there may be areas of the Universe where antimatter galaxies , stars , planets and even life exist , but we have no evidence of this . ) |
| 9 | On top of this , there may be areas of the police department which have been financed by special funds , perhaps in the form of trusts ; the costs of these areas will appear in a different fund again . |
| 10 | As Table 1.4 showed , the ‘ duplication ’ of the universities and polytechnic/colleges in professional courses is more apparent than real , since certain types of professional courses are largely concentrated in one sector and there may be differences of emphasis between courses in the same subject . |
| 11 | Lord Diplock says that there may be differences of opinion as to what is expedient , just and moral , and that Parliament 's opinion on these questions is paramount . |
| 12 | In a televised speech on May 1 , Zia appealed for national unity , saying that " there may be differences of opinion in a democracy … [ but ] this is not the time for differences " . |
| 13 | There may be cases of a severe haemorrhage . |
| 14 | There may be cases of an intermediate kind , where , though a person is appointed to settle disputes that have arisen , still it is not intended that he shall be bound to hear evidence and arguments . |
| 15 | On individual time sheets there may be hours of non-chargeable time , for example unproductive time spent waiting in the yard or time spent by apprentices in training or at college . |
| 16 | On certain specific issues there may be changes of emphasis . |
| 17 | There may be frequency of micturition and , in a proportion of cases , these symptoms may progress to acute retention of urine , when the hapless female finds it impossible to pass urine at all . |
| 18 | While there may be problems of productivity for a small category of workers , there is a substantial body of research which suggests that there is little foundation in reality for such views for the majority of occupations . |
| 19 | There may be problems of deciding the social class of married women , but these will have to be settled at some time . |
| 20 | There may be problems of a technical nature , but these are of little substantive consequence for sociological theory which is capable of being sustained , or not , by data culled from a variety of sources using a variety of methods . |
| 21 | When the L4 emerge there may be ulceration of the mucosa . |
| 22 | In addition to the skin lesions there may be involvement of the liver and spleen , the bones and eyes , and occasionally the central nervous system with a syphilitic meningitis . |
| 23 | There may be feelings of anger against the person who caused a woman to cry . |
| 24 | And I think that the argument has been that on the whole discipline the use of discipline simply to punish drinking is n't going to be appropriate , although there may be forms of behaviour produced by excessive drinking that it 's appropriate to act against . |
| 25 | On the other hand , there may be moments of real illumination and discovery , when someone makes a comment that springs from a quite different frame of reference from one 's own . |
| 26 | Even in summer there may be smudges of by now off-white snow or icc to be seen on the slopes round about . |
| 27 | ( I grant that the difference is not absolute , and there may be elements of the affective and the intuitive in the pursuit of any intellectual discipline , but they are likely to be marginal . ) |
| 28 | But even here there may be elements of uncertainty . |
| 29 | Also the smart executive is aware , especially in the early stages of examining a strategic move , that there may be perspectives of which he is unaware . |
| 30 | But while there may be degrees of determination or contradiction , there must be some consensus as to what count as examples of these relations — what sorts of contradiction are there ? |