Example sentences of "there appear [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradford was ‘ not troubled with them ’ [ fascists ] , ‘ The Movement does not receive much support ’ in Dewsbury , and there appear to have been only a couple of modest meetings in Huddersfield . |
| 2 | Percifull died in nine days in November 1733 and Dr John Martyn 's twins , John and Eulalia , died within a year of their baptism in 1737 , there appear to have been no such tragedies in the Miller family and we may suppose these were their only three children . |
| 3 | Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success . |
| 4 | There appear to have been two major influences behind the modification of the classic pacta tertiis rule . |
| 5 | Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members . |
| 6 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 7 | As seen above , for example , there appear to have been two " regular " as distinct from any possible " ceremonial " investitures , apparently called and defined just below — while Abdurrahman Efendi was Rumeli kazasker ( 958–64/1551 7 ) , namely in 959 and 963 ; and Ata'i states that in the time of his successor , Molla Hamid ( Hamid ) , Rumeli kazasker from 964/1557 to 974/5566 , were decreed in Dhu " l-Hijja 968/August-September 1561 and in Sha'ban 973/March 1566 : thus the period 958 to 974 saw in 959 , 963 , 968 , and 973 . |
| 8 | Outside there appear to have been two aisled barns of second- and third-century date respectively , which were probably used for the safe storage of taxes collected in kind or goods in transit . |
| 9 | The House will be pleased to know that in 1991 there appear to have been lower fatalities on our roads than in any year since the 1940s , despite a ninefold increase in the amount of traffic . |
| 10 | After an appropriate opening , it was addressed by the pope , but so great was the crowd that one reporter could not hear the content of the speech and there appear to have been several fatal accidents in the crush . |
| 11 | There appear to have been trends in the fossil gymnosperms leading to increased protection of the ovules . |
| 12 | After Cicero 's De Oratore , there appear to have been very few analyses of the language of humour , comedy and joking , until the twentieth century : at least , judging from Milner 's ( 1972 ) account , cited in Delia Chiaro 's bibliography . |
| 13 | Mr Wilson , 25 , was last seen by his family as they prepared to celebrate Hogmanay at a relative 's at the nearby Charleston estate , but there appear to have been sightings a day or so later in the city centre . |
| 14 | There appears to have been a general feeling among them that there was no real problem on this score . |
| 15 | This was in The New English Weekly , a London journal of very limited circulation ; there appears to have been no comparable acknowledgement in the poet 's native land . |
| 16 | The timing question aside , there appears to have been basic agreement between Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson on the need to defend sterling . |
| 17 | Broadly , there was stability in the marriage rates from the 1870s to the 1940s , although there appears to have been something of a minor dip in those getting married in the late 1920s and 1930s . |
| 18 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 19 | This requires careful planning , especially in the allocation of committee rooms for use by committees which are to be broadcast , but , in practice , there appears to have been little difficulty . |
| 20 | There appears to have been a return to narrative , with more titles published and more copies sold ( although it must always be borne in mind that the Italian literary market is a relatively small one ) . |
| 21 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 22 | There appears to have been some slackness in staff discipline in that teachers were often late for , or even absent from , lectures . |
| 23 | Even allowing for the restricted staff , there appears to have been some lack of organization of the lecturing programme in Coleman 's later years . |
| 24 | There appears to have been a greater interest in orthogenesis in the earlier part of this century and writers such as Berg considered the subject in some depth . |
| 25 | Thus despite the companies ' use of highly toxic chemicals , such as cyanide , there appears to have been little or no state regulation of the environmental impact of mining , until the Navan mines project . |
| 26 | Overall there appears to have been very little exchange between Kent and other areas of England in the sixth and seventh centuries , but where there is a potential link it may indicate the direction of alliances between groups . |
| 27 | In addition , Richards has indicated the strength of the connection between cremation urns and the deceased as there appears to have been ‘ a collective conception of the urn form that was appropriate for the burial of a person of a particular age , sex , ethnic , totemic , or other social grouping ’ ( Richards 1982 , p. 43 ) . |
| 28 | Clearly there appears to have been a significant increase in activity across all age groups , but especially among the older age groups . |
| 29 | In the more notorious slum districts , there appears to have been little or no respect for the law . |
| 30 | There appears to have been a substantial number of ‘ rank and file ’ supporters scattered across the whole of both Galilee and Judaea . |