Example sentences of "there [vb mod] [be] no " in BNC.

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1 By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach .
2 Most important , there may be no interesting similarity whatsoever that could be formulated in the vocabulary of physics between such a system and the brain .
3 Some wiring instructions will come with the lamp , but there may be no advice about running the actual power supply into the garden .
4 There may be no single poem in it to equal Pope 's Eloisa to Abelard ( 1717 ) , Gray 's Elegy ( 1751 ) or Coleridge 's Frost at Midnight ( 1798 ) ; but one of Lonsdale 's intentions is to encourage us to extend our definition of what constitutes poetry .
5 There may be no answer , in the sense that there may be no available cure which will work . ’
6 There may be no answer , in the sense that there may be no available cure which will work . ’
7 It is assumed here that juries and others do attach considerable importance to the label when it is a question of homicide , and therefore that the excessive use of force in self-defence is a matter which is properly reflected by a separate qualified defence , rather than being left to sentencing ( which means executive discretion , if the mandatory penalty for murder remains ) or forced artificially into the doctrine of provocation ( when there may be no real evidence of loss of self-control ) .
8 The practical problems are that there may be no evidence of violence on the woman 's body , which usually means that the case will be a question of the victim 's word against the defendant 's ; this may lead the police to be sceptical of the woman 's complaint , or may incline the prosecutor to accept a plea of guilty to the lesser charge of indecent assault .
9 There may be no overseas players next season and high-profile players may have to go to recoup some cash and pay off debts . ’
10 For many buildings under threat there may be no obvious immediate source of information .
11 At the same time , it builds a prison-house of rhetoric from which there may be no practical possibility of escape : as later with the writings of Baudrillard , their critique , in its totalizing embrace , always seems to have a neutralizing answer to suggestions of difference .
12 Following the primary attack , there may be no further episodes , or the disease may recur over a long period , in some cases several years .
13 Although it has a malevolent appearance , the primary chancre is usually completely painless and , unless secondary bacterial infection occurs , there may be no symptoms .
14 In the best case you may inherit excellent facilities needing only minor alterations ; in the worst there may be no buildings at all or it may be wisest to level the lot and start again .
15 If it is sited in a sheltered spot there may be no need for side cladding ; on a windy site the rain will blow in horizontally from the eaves , particularly when the barn is nearly empty .
16 If the water is doing , or will do , no damage , there may be no problem .
17 This was applied and extended by Sir Robert to safeguard the arrangements for telephone-tapping , even though when a tap is placed there may be no iniquity but only the suspicion of iniquity ; and that entire conversations may be recorded and listened to ‘ when much of the conversations may be highly confidential and untainted by any iniquity ’ .
18 Finally , by a natural progression , there may be no activity at all in the summit crater , instead the new eruption may take place completely independently of the main volcano , and a new mini-volcano or parasitic cone may be built up .
19 Vulcanian eruptions sometimes form the first phases of a longer eruption , when the volcano is ‘ clearing its throat ’ for the real business , and as such , there may be no new magmatic material involved , and all the material that is showered up as ash to form the ‘ cauliflower cloud ’ may be merely old , cold , solid lava which was previously blocking up the throat ; if this is the case , the eruptions are sometimes called ultra-vulcanian .
20 However , if the reason for the closure is that your employer has transferred his business to someone else , there may be no dismissal because you have been automatically transferred to work for the new owner ( see below ) .
21 Indeed , in many cases there may be no meaning in the demands being made of children .
22 Firstly , there may be a partial response which does not last long , and secondly , there may be no response at all .
23 Indeed for some treatments there may be no service available since the providers consider it unprofitable .
24 It is , however , possible that there may be no solutions at all to a system of Diophantine equations ; the assistant could never give 46p change using only the 5p , 10p and 20p coins .
25 Shares are essentially a method of raising funds for the company , so that if money is available by other means ( loans from various sources , endowments , etc ) there may be no need to form a share company .
26 However , as I will show , there may be no consideration of way of life when decisions are made about the closure of particular schools .
27 There may be no severe problem in bed if the underlying preoccupation , doubt , aggression or impulse is contained and given room for expression in other areas of life outside the bedroom .
28 This can , in effect , mean that purse nets can do the whole of the killing work and there may be no need of a long-net .
29 There may be no seal , but the banks and other businesses can use encryption to keep financial statements confidential .
30 It will perhaps be said that , although there may be no inherent difficulty in establishing criteria of relevance to choices of means , the vagueness of ‘ Be aware ’ for choices of ends reduces it to meaninglessness as our proposed ‘ first principle ’ .
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