Example sentences of "there [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Any definition which helps to recognise that there may be substantial overlapping of legal and social issues , and that neither can be adequately dealt with in isolation is to be commended .
2 For workshops , as there may be limited spaces , please book early by using the attached booking slip .
3 Er , Professor is right erm there may always be a possibility that at some time er you have to you have to recognise that there may be excess capacity in the system and I I do n't believe that the Labour party is not prepared to recognise that there may well be excess capacity in the system at some time .
4 There may be an alveolar closure immediately preceding and overlapping with a velar closure ; there may be simultaneous alveolar and velar closure , or a velar closure followed by slight contact but not closure in the alveolar region .
5 There may be neurological involvement similar to that occurring in adult acquired syphilis , but the onset is , of course , at a much younger age .
6 Even when there have been tensions and problems , we may have spent many out-of-work hours caring for parents , and there may be deep-rooted feelings of loss .
7 In girlhood , there may be complete unselfconsciousness of beauty , although the child who is encouraged too young to consider her appearance becomes precocious and vain .
8 Nevertheless , while in legal theory there may be complete flexibility , the political reality may be quite different .
9 But there may be powerful grounds for saying that the command economy , is the culprit , rather than the management of it .
10 There may be odd days , however , when a problem arises .
11 Between adjacent segments there may be present small detached plates or intersegmentalia and such sclerites belong partly to the segment in front and partly to the segment behind them .
12 They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually .
13 There may be fixed allowances payable for accommodation and meals or firms may reimburse reasonable expenses .
14 As the right hon. Gentleman is talking about matters in which there may be joint agreement , and as he has visited Langbaurgh and Hemsworth in recent days , will he comment on the fact that both the Labour party candidates for those constituencies have invested in newly privatised industries ?
15 It need not be insisted that all valuational statements and words are functioning ethically , for there may be non-ethical attitudes .
16 There may be innovative processes at the factory , new products on display at the exhibition and new designs at the fashion show .
17 Sometimes there may be mechanical or physiological problems which prevent the ingestion or digestion of food ( e.g. ill-fitting dentures , diabetes mellitus ) .
18 This may not just be a change in location and hence in pattern , since there may be contemporary settlements beneath the present villages , an aspect Bob Smith is examining in the Wiltshire valleys .
19 In other circumstances there may be invisible hazards like piped music in shops and restaurants , juke boxes in pubs or cafés , the rumble of loud traffic passing outside .
20 In practice , of course , there may be additional obstacles in obtaining either the screening facilities or planning for the abortion .
21 Thus , our results on pou [ c ] expression indicate that there may be additional ubiquitously expressed POU genes also in mammals and other vertebrates that have not been isolated yet .
22 There may be additional rating to charged ( see Section B — ‘ NON-STANDARD CONSTRUCTION ’ ) .
23 There may be additional documents as mentioned above .
24 On the other hand , comparisons with national data may be less relevant in that there may be broad geographical variations either in incidence or in case ascertainment that would make it difficult to determine whether an increase in Seascale or Allerdale and Copeland was a local effect ( and hence possibly related to Sellafield ) or whether it affected the whole of Cumbria .
25 A high proportion of affected subjects are therefore compound heterozygotes rather than homozygotes , although particular mutations may occur with a frequency of over 60% in certain populations and there may be close association with particular haplotypes , indicating that founder effect has had an important influence on the distribution of mutations across nations .
26 Further procedures which may be undertaken in cases where more detailed information is needed or where it is suspected that there may be serious problems with vision include the visually evaluated response ( VER ) and the electroretinogram ( ERG ) .
27 Here again , there may be serious doubts about relevant anthropological facts , but the present point concerns the principle of the explanation , which involves an important difference from the incest case .
28 There may be serious lack of qualified or trained personnel , and a reduced capacity to educate their successors or replacements .
29 Vision may be good or there may be total blindness or one of any gradations in between .
30 Second , there may be various political reasons for including these areas in a comprehensive analysis for accounting purposes .
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