Example sentences of "there to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be this man 's servant — what was there to be proud in that ? |
| 2 | There must be an intention on both sides for there to be legal consequences in the event of a breach , in order to constitute a binding contract . |
| 3 | What was there to be upset about ? |
| 4 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 5 | So you do n't expect there to be two to three weeks work there . |
| 6 | Human tasks and the purposes of task analysis are too varied for there to be one standard procedure for either analysis or description . |
| 7 | for example , the Department of Agriculture for Scotland ( DAFS ) estimated there to be 75,000 people working in agriculture in Scotland in 1976 , but the Department of Employment data for the same year revealed only 33,000 people , or just 44 per cent of the DAFS total . |
| 8 | This topic is too recent for there to be many guidelines available but for a particular topic the designer can assume that he need not be inhibited in allowing his imagination to run to many kinds of novel solutions . |
| 9 | Yes , the er , in answer to the er , the the first point , I do not , er , expect there to be many additional calls on the remaining , on the remainder of the contingency . |
| 10 | Nor is it uncommon for there to be such poor recording of achievement ( as well as diagnosis of weaknesses ) that a teacher has relatively little on which to build from the child 's teacher of the previous year . |
| 11 | For there to be such a fact about me is for it also to be true , roughly , that in certain circumstances I would consciously believe , desire , fear , intend , or whatever . |
| 12 | It is possible for there to be unrestricted-use three party debtor-creditor-supplier agreements , but the requirements are more exacting as seen under s12 ( c ) : an unrestricted-use credit agreement which is made by the creditor under pre-existing arrangements between himself and a person ( the " supplier " ) other than the debtor in the knowledge that the credit is to be used to finance a transaction between the debtor and the supplier . |
| 13 | A large suburban school is too open an institution for there to be much of an underlife in which to acquire reputation and to develop an alternative moral career . |
| 14 | He calculates that there are enough long-range connections for there to be two-way connections between any patch of 1 mm 2 and every other 1 mm 2 patch over the whole neocortex , which is quite impressive when you realise that the human neocortex has an area of more than 100,000 sq . |
| 15 | In order to make the most of the exercise , some teachers thought that it would be very valuable to be able to read other departmental self-appraisals and for there to be general discussion of the appraisal . |
| 16 | Their understanding of social action is a ‘ realist ’ one , in so far as they believe there to be general , deep-lying mechanisms affecting human conduct which are triggered in different ways by contingent social circumstances . |
| 17 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 18 | The World Health Organisation estimates there to be 11 million cases worldwide . |
| 19 | He used stochastic simulation to examine the no-arbitrage price of the S&P500 , and found there to be little effect . |
| 20 | In the British Social Attitudes Survey of 1988 , 90 per cent of people thought there to be less respect for teachers amongst parents and pupils than 10 years ago . |
| 21 | If the deceased had led a reasonable life and had died at a good age without too much trouble , leaving a reasonably good family behind him , what was there to be miserable about ? |
| 22 | If , like many executives , you have no representative to act on your behalf in redundancy negotiations , it is all the more important for there to be detailed discussions between you and your employer about any plans to make you redundant . |
| 23 | It was also French colonial policy for there to be larger concentrations of Europeans in their territories . |
| 24 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 25 | The first is a highly fortuitous and austere way : namely that the compound might have the same effect — the transfer of some particular kind of information — sufficiently often and sufficiently advantageously for there to be some selective advantage in its coming standardly to possess that significance : that is , for it to acquire the biological function of transmitting just that kind of information . |
| 26 | It is argued that in view of the impotence of the House of Commons and the flexibility of the British Constitution , it is necessary for there to be some check on the activities of Government . |
| 27 | Therefore there is a real tradeoff involved , between the need for any bonus to he relatively generous when compared with a flat salary , and the need for there to be some bonus element . |
| 28 | If these world markets are themselves genuinely competitive , and if the domestic market is open to imports , then there may be little direct harm resulting from the pursuit of large scale ( though ideally one would wish there to be some scrutiny of the dominant firm in the context of the world market by a supra-national competition authority ) . |
| 29 | In Use Since this a preview , based on Beta software , we expect there to be some odd little quirks and funnies in the program , and that it will run slower than the final release version . |
| 30 | In order that is for there to be some change , whether er change er like having a page torn out or a change like moving from one location to another , there also has to be something that stays the same , mainly the subject of change . |