Existential, nonreferential ‘there‘ in the dummy position can be used with modal verbs.
In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 35 in the category of Verbs is defined as:
‘there’ with a range of modal verbs + ‘be’ + complement.
To get our most common affirmative examples, we do a search in iWeb for:
there_E _VM be *
1 THERE WILL BE A 135620
There will be a lot of people in the restaurant to verify that.
2 THERE WILL BE NO 66994
3 THERE MAY BE A 43753
4 THERE WOULD BE NO 37614
5 THERE SHOULD BE A 31615
6 THERE CAN BE NO 27745
There can be no doubt about his upbringing.
7 THERE WOULD BE A 27412
8 THERE MUST BE A 23342
9 THERE WILL BE AN 22915
10 THERE MAY BE SOME 21415
There may be some truth in what you say.
11 THERE WILL BE SOME 20733
12 THERE SHOULD BE NO 20458
13 THERE MIGHT BE A 17755
14 THERE WILL BE MORE 17147
15 THERE COULD BE A 16616
16 THERE CAN BE A 12049
17 THERE WILL BE PLENTY 9798
18 THERE MIGHT BE SOME 8525
19 THERE MAY BE AN 8507
20 THERE MAY BE OTHER 8338
21 THERE WILL BE MANY 8282
22 THERE MUST BE SOME 8115
23 THERE WILL BE TWO 7115
24 THERE MAY BE MORE 6890
25 THERE MAY BE NO 6806
26 THERE SHOULD BE AN 5993
27 THERE MUST BE SOMETHING 5868
28 THERE SHOULD BE SOME 5537
29 THERE WILL BE TIMES 5343
30 THERE WILL BE ONE 4890
31 THERE WOULD BE AN 4739
32 THERE ‘LL BE A 4633
33 THERE COULD BE SOME 4574
34 THERE COULD BE NO 4480
35 THERE MAY BE TIMES 4410
36 THERE WILL BE THE 4363
37 THERE MUST BE AN 4142
38 THERE WILL BE ANOTHER 4122
39 THERE WOULD BE SOME 4056
40 THERE WILL BE LOTS 3851
41 THERE SHALL BE NO 3697
42 THERE SHOULD BE MORE 3292
43 THERE WOULD BE MORE 3273
44 THERE WILL BE OTHER 3147
45 THERE WILL BE LESS 3134
46 THERE WILL BE THREE 2954
47 THERE COULD BE AN 2911
48 THERE CAN BE SOME 2807
49 THERE SHALL BE A 2724
50 THERE MAY BE MANY 2688
51 THERE MIGHT BE AN 2685
52 THERE MAY BE SOMETHING 2674
53 THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL 2609
54 THERE CAN BE MANY 2519
55 THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING 2471
there might be something in this case file
that might help prove Arne‘s story.
56 THERE WILL BE SOMETHING 2407
57 THERE WILL BE PEOPLE 2340
58 THERE COULD BE MORE 2336
There could be more like us out there.
59 THERE WILL BE SEVERAL 2331
60 THERE WILL BE ANY 2329
61 THERE WILL BE AT 2210
62 THERE’LL BE NO 2150
63 THERE WILL BE NEW 2080
64 THERE WILL BE NOTHING 2031
65 THERE WOULD BE NOTHING 2012
66 THERE MUST BE NO 2009
67 THERE MUST BE AT 1901
68 THERE MAY BE SEVERAL 1862
69 THERE ‘D BE NO 1814
70 THERE WILL BE ENOUGH 1779
71 THERE MIGHT BE MORE 1735
72 THERE ‘D BE A 1731
73 THERE WILL BE FEWER 1708
74 THERE WOULD BE ANY 1688
75 THERE WILL BE OPPORTUNITIES 1584
76 THERE CAN BE ONLY 1580
77 THERE COULD BE OTHER 1571
78 THERE WILL BE THOSE 1568
79 THERE WILL BE ONLY 1563
80 THERE WILL BE FOUR 1560
81 THERE WILL BE TIME 1544
82 THERE WILL BE LITTLE 1517
83 THERE MAY BE ONE 1516
84 THERE WILL BE MUCH 1497
85 THERE MIGHT BE OTHER 1472
86 THERE COULD BE MANY 1469
87 THERE CAN BE AN 1463
88 THERE WILL BE ” 1450
89 THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL 1444
90 THERE CAN BE LITTLE 1426
91 THERE MAY BE ANOTHER 1405
92 THERE SHOULD BE AT 1376
93 THERE SHOULD BE PLENTY 1349
CBS Sports94 THERE SHOULD BE ONE 1291
95 THERE WOULD BE LESS 1266
96 THERE WOULD BE THE 1264
97 THERE WILL BE VERY 1257
98 THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING 1252
99 THERE WILL BE 2 1200
100 THERE WOULD BE MANY 1176
A2 vocabulary:
another, could, enough, less, might, must, nothing, several, shall, should
B1:
opportunities, plenty
EXPERT EXAMPLES:
There’d be a lot of new rules based on the response to my question to friends and colleagues about pet peeves.
There would be a slight miscommunication about who exactly I am thanking.
We consider negation or adverbs in mid position as an extra step of complexity, so it gets pegged at B2:
_EX _VM _XX _VB
1 THERE WON’T BE 15743
And since the only way to get a number ending in 5
through multiplication is by starting with a number ending in 5,
there won’t be any more down the line either.
2 THERE MAY NOT BE 9580
3 THERE WILL NOT BE 9182
4 THERE SHOULDN’T BE 6198
5 THERE WOULDN’T BE 6078
6 THERE CANNOT BE 4769
7 THERE SHOULD NOT BE 4129
8 THERE MIGHT NOT BE 3823
9 THERE WOULD NOT BE 3788
10 THERE CAN’T BE 2435
11 THERE COULDN’T BE 937
12 THERE COULD NOT BE 928
13 THERE SHALL NOT BE 600
14 THERE MUST NOT BE 536
15 THERE NEED NOT BE 303
_EX _VM _RR _VB
1 THERE WILL ALSO BE 31630
2 THERE WILL ALWAYS BE 30132
3 THERE MAY ALSO BE 9216
4 THERE WILL STILL BE 7181
5 THERE WILL NEVER BE 5593
6 THERE WILL LIKELY BE 3769
7 THERE WILL PROBABLY BE 3566
8 THERE MAY STILL BE 2881
9 THERE MAY WELL BE 2728 C1
10 THERE CAN ALSO BE 2583
11 THERE SHOULD ALSO BE 2520
12 THERE WOULD STILL BE 2385
13 THERE MAY EVEN BE 2047
14 THERE WOULD ALSO BE 2023
15 THERE COULD ALSO BE 1788
16 THERE WILL DEFINITELY BE 1357
17 THERE SHOULD ALWAYS BE 1340
18 THERE CAN NEVER BE 1298
19 THERE MUST ALSO BE 1292
20 THERE WOULD ALWAYS BE 1223
Note that ‘BE’ is not the only infinitive that is possible in this structure. We would presume this is more advanced and at least B2.
1 THERE WILL COME 4449
and there will come a moment
when you have a chance to show it.
2 THERE MAY COME 1624
3 THERE WOULD NEED 1400
Notice the C2 inverted conditional + the double modal structures:
Should someone die on a commercial tourist mission,
there would need to be a determination as to the cause of death.
4 THERE WILL NEED 1359
5 THERE WILL CONTINUE 1220
6 THERE WOULD SEEM 634
7 THERE WOULD APPEAR 470
8 THERE WOULD COME 444
9 THERE SHALL COME 403
10 THERE MUST EXIST 337
11 THERE WILL REMAIN 295
12 THERE WILL HELP 206
13 THERE MAY NEED 189
14 THERE WILL APPEAR 179
15 THERE MAY EXIST 179
16 THERE MIGHT COME 141
17 THERE SHOULD EXIST 125
Also note the B2 post using infinitive TO BE in this structure.