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

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1 Judicial intervention which occurs only when the resultant agency decision is substantively arbitrary will be insufficient , because there may be many instances when it falls short of this , but still wholly or partially ignores the views of interested parties .
2 There may be many things you would like to say in this report but there will only be room for important ones .
3 While there may be many advantages in terms of space , processing time , productivity , and so on in using abstract units which capture regularities about , say , derivational and inflectional morphology in English , it is not clear how such knowledge should be used in speech processing .
4 I realise there may be many runners who I believe have not yet heard of this relatively new organisation .
5 And there may be many others but they have n't been discarvard ’ .
6 There may be many councillors , therefore , who suffer substantial though undefinable loss of job opportunities through their council membership .
7 There may be many reasons why the husband and wife do not make any formal agreement about separation , but this should not entitle a husband to return and force himself upon his wife weeks , months , or even years since he last saw her .
8 There may be many reasons why a patient under hypnosis is able to experience past-life regression ( or , as the doubters might call it , ‘ flights of fancy ’ ) , but any of them can play a significant part in the overcoming of that patient 's particular problem .
9 We have had troubles in various parts of the country in recent months , and I realise that there may be many reasons for that , but I am convinced that one of them is the depressing effect that such areas have on those who live in them .
10 There may be many reasons for such divergencies , including the lack of information among workers about employment opportunities .
11 There may be many planetariums in the world but the London Planetarium is still unique .
12 EBG would then suggest that there may be many bird species with these characteristics , and that they all have such a diet .
13 Similarly , there are certain words between which human listeners only hear one difference ( e.g. ’ cap ’ and ’ cab ’ ) , yet there may be many differences between their waveforms .
14 We should acknowledge at the outset that there may be many cases ( like that illustrated in Fig. 3.1 ) in which presentation of a given stimulus has been shown to result in both latent inhibition and the habituation of a UR .
15 There may be many factors to take into account , but usually the overriding consideration is monetary .
16 As with design , there may be many ways of reaching the centre of the maze ; all of these will be right but some will be more efficient than others .
17 If meditation means achieving a state in which stress is reduced — which I believe to be the case — a state in which the self-healing processes of the body may be encouraged , then there may be many channels through which to achieve it .
18 Although this allows fast retrieval of records , it can lead to very low packing density of data because there may be many additions in one area and few in others .
19 We have seen that there may be many punishment strategies , and relative to anyone of them there may be a very large set of sustainable price-output configurations .
20 There may be many theories , I have no doubt there are , why we have been sent here by the electorate in such strange proportions .
21 If we are concerned with readers who have sensory deprivation , or if we are confronted with unfamiliar alphabets — in the writer 's case examples of these would be Arabic or Japanese — there may be much preparation before the process can continue .
22 Correspondingly , there may be much scepticism and sometimes open hostility from sufferers from addictive diseases , even those in early recovery , towards some doctors , psychiatrists and advisers on addictive disease .
23 And there may be much truth in this — all professions in the US face the same problem , because a small group of lawyers are using the tort system to benefit not only their client but themselves , often operating on a contingency fee basis with no cost to the client .
24 There may be all sorts of social and economic difficulties affecting the family of which the school is unaware .
25 There may be all kinds of professional practices which frail and inarticulate older people hate , but which , without support , they would be unable to articulate .
26 There may be few opportunities for entertainment other than within the home .
27 ‘ We are looking for someone on a consultancy basis to advise on above and below-the-line campaigns , but there may be several arms to that , ’ McDevitt adds .
28 Most often there is one copy of a given plasmid per chromosome , but with the small ones there may be several copies .
29 There may be several reasons why seroconversion seems to be associated with bacterial pneumonia only among intravenous drug users and not among homosexual men .
30 There may be several reasons , concede Laws and Dennison ( 1990:276 ) , why primary heads appear so attracted to doing many things themselves .
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