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

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1 There may be other local groups who can be contacted through lists kept at public libraries , or Citizen Advice Bureaux .
2 However , there may be other mechanisms in operation .
3 There may be other dinosaurs , which are similar to Tyrannosaurus rex , but belong to another species .
4 There may be other associative effects , however , and these allow the possibility that a change of context might reduce the likelihood of the CR .
5 Every document has its contribution to make to research , but there may be other documents not used which could make their contribution too .
6 There may be other more altruistic motives such as the sponsor being the largest employer in the town and this being one way of expressing community concern .
7 Research indicates that there may be other causes which could explain why younger women also suffer from what should be an elderly person 's complaint .
8 There may be other triggers , including infectious mononucleosis , hepatitis , HIV , surgery , lupus and lymphoma .
9 In Gray 's Elegy there is also a ‘ hoary-headed Swain' , who addresses a ‘ kindred spirit ’ ( to the dead poet ) ‘ led by lonely contemplation ’ ; there may be other parallels , but it must be conceded at this point that it is only at the close of Hartleap Well that Wordsworth approaches closely to Gray 's verse movement :
10 A tape-counter readout in the finder is a very convenient way of finding your way around the recordings which are already on the tape , and there may be other indicators such as ‘ SP/LP ’ to remind you of the operating mode .
11 But there may be other symptoms over the years , and if you marry and have children they may inherit in various ways .
12 Afterwards , there may be other prospects .
13 There may be other achievements that you are proud of that are not listed here .
14 This raises the question , discussed in the final section , as to whether there may be other respects in which the laws of war might actually be compatible with deterrence in some form .
15 Of course , people do not work simply for economic rewards , and there may be other social and psychological losses on retirement ( though equally there may be gains ) .
16 But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness .
17 No corresponding studies for the family smoking education project have been published and there may be other explanations for the poor results .
18 There may be other occasions when some members of the clan dress up as the totem animal , in ritual dancing , for example .
19 In specific issue-areas there may be other more important actors , such as transnational companies , some of whose budgets are larger than those of many states , or international financial institutions .
20 When we consider that a typical input/output operation is thousands or millions of times slower than a typical internal operation ( such as the addition of two numbers ) , and that there may be other tasks to which the computer could turn its attention while such an operation is going on , then we can see scope for redesigning the computer in this area .
21 For the girl there may be other problems completely .
22 There may be other , less dramatic pressures .
23 The matter may be sub judice or there may be other people to consult .
24 Yeah , well there may be other mechanisms of doing it
25 There may be other , more subtle , indicators of topic-shift used by conversationalists which we have ignored .
26 And there may be other ways in which in practice composite orders against a contravener and a third party , on a joint and several basis , can be structured .
27 In addition to broadcasts of services there may be other musical events in which to involve the local or regional media .
28 Our model adjusted for the most obvious of these ( age and smoking ) , but there may be other unidentified factors .
29 There may be other ways of explaining the decline of the Liberal party in this period .
30 Schumpeter immediately qualifies this by observing that free competition among would-be leaders for the vote of the electorate is the democratic method of exercising this choice , though of course there may be other non-democratic ways of accepting or refusing .
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