Example sentences of "there [modal v] [be] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since each baboon interacts with many others , and since there may be a long delay between action and reciprocation , stability requires that a baboon should recognise individuals , and remember how each has behaved , or , at the very least , associate with each individual a positive or negative sign , depending on how it has behaved . |
| 2 | The committees are empowered to suggest amendments , and the bill which is returned to the house ( if it ever is ) may be substantially different from its original form ; there may be a long period of debate between representatives of the two houses of the Legislature and the Executive before consensus can be reached . |
| 3 | But , in practice , there should be a long term programme of washing coal , extracting the sulphur from carbon , extracting flue gases , and building fluidised beds . |
| 4 | This declaration proved to be premature , although a recommendation that there should be a longer term for the candidate stage towards full party membership must have provided a useful mechanism for sifting the wheat from the chaff . |
| 5 | But if character assassination were a crime , there 'd be a long list of suspects . |
| 6 | You might think that there would be a long line of officials queuing up to undertake such a testing spying mission — and apparently there was . |
| 7 | However , Bukharin did acknowledge that there would be a long period when petty commodity production would spontaneously arise , and that the struggle between state organised agricultural production and petty commodity production would — as he saw it — be a struggle between socialist and capitalist tendencies in the economic arena . |
| 8 | Instead it was understood that there would be a long period of commodity circulation and all that that implied . |