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

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1 The manager can say this and that and it looks good on paper and there may be great reasoning behind it .
2 I am sure that there must be great variations not only from one part of the country to another , but from one town to another , because of the high levels of unemployment in certain places .
3 There 'll be great trouble for her .
4 His criticisms are directed more at his followers , who fail to recognize , not only that other great past minds have something to teach , but also , more importantly , that there could be great minds in the future .
5 In all cases , there could be great involvement in a whole range of legal issues .
6 Former Top 40 presenter Tony Blackburn said : ‘ In the old days I think it meant something to be the Christmas No. 1 and there would be great excitement in the run-up to the last chart .
7 Second , there would be great advantage in trying to develop a somewhat more coherent framework or strategy to achieve the goal of enabling local action .
8 Alternatively , there would be great benefit in choosing someone working in the pupils ' locality e.g. a youth worker , a nurse , a pupil involved in the provision of a soup kitchen or the organisation of a pro-life cell .
9 I think there will be great developments over the next few years .
10 ‘ Madam Speaker , I know that there will be great sadness at this news .
11 There will be great debate surrounding the engine and many questions will be raised that can not be answered except in terms of likelihood .
12 There follows the observation that the need for responsiveness to rapid technological change and fluctuating economic climate requires management to involve employees in the process of making decisions , if only for the practical reason that there will be great difficulty in carrying through decisions against resistance by trade unions .
13 There will be great political problems for any government tampering with the more fundamental principles or institutions of the constitution , but the extent of such tampering will depend entirely on the political condition of the time .
14 As an observer of that scene , I think that , when history is accurately written , there will be great tribute to the manner in which help , encouragement and advice of considerable quality were given and to the mobilising of the western world to accept that change was taking place .
15 There can be great variety within some themes .
16 Nonetheless there can be great ceremony associated with a Low Church communion .
17 The images in the book are bound by their presentation and stillness to impart an air of safe serenity , but in reality there can be great differences between the sense of security experienced by the users of different schemes and indeed between the principles on which these approaches are based .
18 When you 're criticised by others , there can be great solace in thinking quietly to yourself about the flip side of the description .
19 It 's sometimes very hard to accept what other people share with you ; our human pride stands in our way ; but there can be great blessing in it .
20 The original documents are themselves artefacts , and there can be great value for pupils in seeing and even handling parchment and yellowed paper .
21 Primary schools will of course carry out a range of cross-curricular work , but there can be great benefits from this approach at secondary level also .
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