Example sentences of "there can be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More important , natural selection provides a model of how there can be change towards a kind of fit or harmony , towards structured complexity , which is neither planned nor the result of goal-directed activity . |
| 2 | It has been thought that Freud was assuming that there can be inheritance of acquired characteristics , an idea shown to be fallacious in modern biology . |
| 3 | Of course there can be differentiation by outcome within subsections of structured questions without those subsections themselves being differentiated . |
| 4 | I hope she wo n't relent , for there can be life after divorce and it would be great for her to find a man who would value her and be faithful . |
| 5 | Love is the largest region of the transcendent world and it has many forms — there can be love of God , love of nature , and the love of a human being and love of our fellowmen . |
| 6 | 17.58 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 9 should be encouraged to make their own decisions about the appropriate length for a piece of work and to recognise that there can be merit in brevity . |
| 7 | Thirst is usually marked but there can be dysphagia for solids from the constriction . |
| 8 | If we pretend there can be law when it is not clear what the law is , we will lose sight of the intimate connection between law and fair warning , and our politics will be less just in the future . |
| 9 | Too strong a foam and there can be difficulty in rinsing . |
| 10 | Downes is not very deaf at all yet ; but sometimes , with certain kinds of background noise , and when people are asking questions , well , there can be difficulty . |
| 11 | There can be fever , thirst and generally worse ( < ) for motion . |
| 12 | As well as personal barriers there can be church barriers , such as liturgical practices that militate against any spontaneity in worship . |
| 13 | There can be gold in those genes . |
| 14 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
| 15 | Christianity is a religion in which there can be development precisely because it is a historical religion , tied to history . |
| 16 | But there can be criticism of psychoanalytic theories on a rational basis . |
| 17 | There can be concern in a study of this type that multiple testing may have resulted in certain conclusions being due to chance findings . |
| 18 | There can be evaluation of validity , positive or negative , without the proper interpretation of ideas . |
| 19 | It must be made crystal clear that they must withdraw from the land that they presently occupy in Croatia before there can be progress towards a lasting settlement . |
| 20 | He still thinks there can be peace , he is determined . |
| 21 | And so far there can be doubt who is winning . |
| 22 | Attitudes are much more difficult to change than are skills and there can be ambiguity about what constitutes an improvement . |
| 23 | Again there can be concentration on events or on operator decisions . |
| 24 | Erm looking now at page three hundred and fifty seven er paragraph seven three two oh seven three one and seven three two , page three hundred and fifty seven where the report makes the point that er when legal proceedings are entered into they tend to create further barriers and make it m less and less likely that th there can be conciliation between estranged partners erm and paragraph seven three two points out a growing need fo or speaks of a growing need for conciliation . |
| 25 | A striking exception is to be found in Herbert 's The Flower , one of the few poems to suggest that there can be growth , change and joy in old age . |
| 26 | There can be recovery only if we reduce interest rates and the pound with them . |
| 27 | For those matters which fall above the line , there can be debate and compromise ; for those that do not there can not . |
| 28 | There can be failure , hurt , violation and muddle . |
| 29 | A combination of the loyalty of trade union members , of the distribution of ministerial posts among MPs on the executive and of personal persuasion by the Prime Minister and senior colleagues helps to keep the Executive and the party leadership together , though there can be tension and even open conflict as occurred in 1976 — 82 . |
| 30 | ( I , 817 — 18 ) Sartre arrives at what he calls ‘ the real problem of History ’ , that is how there can be totalization without a totalizer , only at the very end of Volume I. It is not until the next volume , however , that he intends to show how individual actions , separate multiplicities , make up ‘ one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility ’ ( I , 69 ) . |