Example sentences of "[ex0] [modal v] be [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The extension of the YTS into a two year scheme and making it compulsory for those not in education through removing entitlements to other benefits , means that in future there may be no such thing as a ‘ young worker ’ or a ‘ young unemployed ’ under the age of eighteen .
2 Yet in industrial goods markets there may be no such thing as an average consumer ; each buyer 's demand pattern and requirement may be different .
3 In Malta , President Bush — in agreement with President Gorbachev — said there must be no more bloodshed in Lebanon .
4 Within a year there should be no such restriction upon me .
5 There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before .
6 Surely there should be no more class conflict it should be all class er cooperation , working together .
7 There 'll be no such effect for those aboard the Angelina .
8 There 'll be no more work on the site until their plans to replace to hotel have been passed .
9 There 'll be no more fellatio . ’
10 There 'll be no more trouble .
11 There 'll be no more trouble . ’
12 He 's negotiating the sale of his house — selling it to a consultant surgeon at Seabourne General Hospital , so there 'll be no more opposition for you . ’
13 With photography , and the uncertainty of whether the picture would be a success , there could be no such climax .
14 He said that a solid body moving through a fluid medium such as air was in fact propelled by the air , which was cleft by the moving body and then rejoined behind it to provide the forward drive , for there could be no such thing as a vacuum , that is , mere nothingness .
15 ALDERSON B. : If this agreement were good , there could be no such thing as a nudum pactum .
16 For Nora , whose daily landscape was that endless to and fro of paper , there could be no such comfort .
17 So , I believe that what you 're also saying is that even if there were war , that would n't necessarily mean that the tap would suddenly turn off and there 'd be no more oil coming out of the Middle East ?
18 In accepting that there is a representation problem , I reject two views according to which there would be no such problem .
19 They emphasised as their ‘ final and most important lesson … that if hooligans did not behave like hooligans at football matches there would be no such risk of injury ’ ( ibid.:8 ) .
20 Almost immediately it was revealed that he had told a radio interviewer on the morning of the lunch that there would be no such tax on gold-mining companies , and he was forced to return to parliament later on April 11 to admit that his memory of events had been mistaken .
21 ‘ Marriage ’ could become a purely social or religious ceremony — in which case there would be no such thing as divorce , legally speaking .
22 To reiterate the point just made , this is not an argument about the functional necessity for all societies to have a category of ‘ crime ’ but an argument about the positive qualities of what happens to be defined as crime under capitalism ; indeed , the argument is usually combined with the assumption that under socialism there would be no such thing as crime .
23 If it were 20 per cent greater , there would be no less dissatisfaction and unfulfilled demand at the margin ; if it were 20 per cent less — I do not mean if it were reduced by 20 per cent but if it were now 20 per cent less than it actually is , nobody would be the wiser .
24 At least Molly could see there would be no more blackmail .
25 The sums of money were enormous and I told them that there would be no more money once it had been spent . ’
26 She said there would be no more money .
27 There would be no more renegotiation .
28 As saccharin is used by in the manufacture of prawn cocktail and similar sweet/savoury flavours , it meant that if this draft legislation should pass into law , from April 1993 , there would be no more prawn cocktail flavour !
29 Instinct told her that there would be no more sleep for her that night .
30 Beyond the trials , there would be no more pain .
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