Example sentences of "there [verb] [prep] be [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ THERE has to be something wrong with a tax system in which a police sergeant falls into the same tax bracket as a multi-millionaire ’ — Tory MP Keith Hampson . |
| 2 | And to all Britain 's European allies there seemed to be something incongruous about her ending conscription just as they were trying to expand their conscript forces under American pressure , in order to make the forward defence of Western Europe , which they all desired , a practicable strategy . |
| 3 | There seemed to be something urgent in the sound . |
| 4 | There seemed to be something inevitable in the way her glance homed in at once to the familiar figure standing with his back to her reading one of the notices . |
| 5 | " Mummy died , " his father said again , and there seemed to be something wrong with the way he said it . |
| 6 | If by " meaning " is understood the objective content of linguistic utterances , or what might also be called their " objective thought-content " ( I shall discuss later the " historical " , performative aspects of such utterances ) , then , on the face of it at least , there seems to be nothing odd or improper in making identifying cross-references to meanings . |
| 7 | Moreover , there seems to be nothing artificial in principle in holding the acts of an employee done in the course of his employment as equivalent to the acts of the employer . |
| 8 | So there seems to be nothing special or unique about the way hypnosis aids the memory of witnesses , if it actually does . |
| 9 | These are exciting times and every day there seems to be something new and innovative happening . |
| 10 | So there seems to be something odd about the cat . |
| 11 | At the same time , s2(2) of SGA 1979 does specifically contemplate the sale by one part owner to another ( but compare Graff v Evans ( 1882 ) 8 QBD 373 ; Davies v Burnett [ 1902 ] 1 KB 666 ) and there appears to be nothing wrong , as a matter of legal principle , in treating this as a sale . |
| 12 | Because the countryside involves working the land , and that land has in a sense been here forever , there appears to be something eternal about rural life , its rhythms and patterns , that city life can never reproduce . |
| 13 | Even though learned readers took this as a reference to Platonic , rather than Christian belief , there appeared to be something Biblical about the ‘ young lambs ’ and ‘ the tabor 's sound ’ . |