Example sentences of "[conj] there [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was achieved by utilising the sorting facilities of the database to focus the direction of the study on areas where there seemed to be potential for improvement . |
| 2 | Although reports indicated that there continued to be widespread resistance to any dilution of the CSCE 's unanimity rule [ see p. 38314 ; 38366 ] , questions about its merits resurfaced after the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd on Sept. 10 urged the conference to seek ways of strengthening the CSCE 's mechanisms for the protection of human rights , adding that the UK was " certainly in favour of moving beyond the present situation where everything happens by consensus " . |
| 3 | The first of these conditions ( which in some respects contrast sharply with the regulation in Britain before 1985 ) was that there had to be factual grounds to suspect a person of having committed a crime contrary to the security of the state . |
| 4 | Council leader John Williams ( Lab ) said that there had to be strict conditions . |
| 5 | It was agreed that there needed to be substantial funding restored to both the Housing Executive and health service budget to improve the services they provide and to combat the ever increasing problems which are besetting our community . |
| 6 | For most of those in political life , the existing pattern of local government ( through which numbers of politicians , particularly in the Labour Party , had graduated ) was quite satisfactory and there seemed to be little point in tinkering with it . |
| 7 | The work of all the institutions in the area concerned with medical or surgical treatment should be co-ordinated , and there had to be close and active co-operation between the public and the voluntary authorities and their respective officers . |
| 8 | So far as serious crime was concerned , three conditions had to be satisfied : the crime had to be really serious ; the normal methods of investigation had to have been tried and failed ; and there had to be good reason to believe that the interception would result in a conviction ( Birkett , 1957 ) . |
| 9 | He was thin , and there appeared to be dark patches growing in through the grey of his beard . |
| 10 | Little detail was available on the needs of individual republics , and there appeared to be little co-ordination in the demands . |
| 11 | Some mediums were found to be fraudulent but there seemed to be genuine phenomena underlying the whole business ; and it seemed to be the job of earnest doubters to come to grips with it despite its general slipperiness . |
| 12 | It was understandable that most of the staff had no previous experience with Jewish children , but there seemed to be little effort to make contact . |
| 13 | Not only was Leslie 's fate unknown , but there appeared to be considerable confusion in the regimental records and in subsequent references to the operations in which he died . |
| 14 | There was lengthy speculation that Honda might take an equity stake ( ie a shareholding ) in Rover , but there appeared to be little enthusiasm for that from Honda . |
| 15 | Queen Elizabeth I , her penchant for black servants and entertainers notwithstanding , took the opportunity to ‘ scapegoat ’ the black communities , and attempted to expel them without compunction when there appeared to be political advantage in doing so for managing her economic difficulties . |