Example sentences of "[vb base] to [be] [num] " in BNC.

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1 This shows a seven-snake-necked monster with animal heads and a long spotted body with four legs , suggestive of a leopard , and in addition to the thick tail there appear to be eight more , rising from , but not attached to the back and neck .
2 She tells me that this has recently become quite itchy , and when there appear to be one or two areas that have er become discoloured darker than , than the main part of the mole .
3 There appear to be two distinct types of herpes simplex virus — type I ( herpes labialis or facialis ) which is found predominantly above the neck and type II ( herpes genitalis ) more often found in the genital and anal areas .
4 There appear to be two distinct and conflicting pressures on the system .
5 There appear to be two possible explanations .
6 There appear to be two main reasons for this factor of ten difference between estimate and practice .
7 As the answer to the first of these shows , the pair are closely linked ; for there appear to be two kinds of criteria for identifying the dominant instance of a society , which are more or less explicitly mentioned in Althusser 's work .
8 The fourth variable is energy , and there appear to be two issues here .
9 There appear to be two main benefits from providing clients with information .
10 One turns hopefully to the north-east wing , but the remains are very difficult to interpret , as there appear to be two main floor levels , with as much as 8 ft between them .
11 The problem , however , is that Becker fails to reconcile to any acceptable degree what appear to be two mutually antagonistic themes .
12 There appear to be two types of modifiability in cortical neurons : a slow , irreversible process that occurs during early development , and a rapid , reversible one that continues to operate through life .
13 There appear to be two general reasons for hostility towards the growth of a disability culture :
14 ‘ There always appear to be two explanations of everything .
15 There thus appear to be two relationships between subjective risk and memory in driving .
16 There appear to be two possible mechanisms to account for this .
17 There appear to be two distinct types of coherent structure in a two-dimensional far wake .
18 There appear to be two distinct approaches .
19 ‘ There appear to be two parties to date who are significantly interested in the property and we expect an offer very shortly . ’
20 There appear to be four main driving forces behind the consideration of widening the business options open to surveyors : better use of skills , increased competition in the offering of advisory and financial services , improvement in public image and financial expansion .
21 There appear to be four main Soviet categories for Latin American regimes : ( i ) ‘ revolutionary democratic ’ states or ( a label rarely applied ) states of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , such as post-1979 Nicaragua and 1979–83 Grenada ; ( ii ) capitalist , yet ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ anti-imperialist regimes which are willing to be friendly to the Soviet Union and stand up to the United States , such as Mexico and panama ( particularly under General Omar Torrijos ( 1969–81 ) , who negotiated a treaty with the Carter administration providing for complete Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal by 1999 , a campaign that was strongly supported by Moscow ) .
22 There appear to be three main answers .
23 In interpreting memory results in terms of Easterbrook 's hypothesis there appear to be three important questions to ask and these will be considered in turn .
24 I want to be nineteen for ever .
25 If you want to be one of the crowd , there 's no time like now to book a piece of the action .
26 I want to be one of them , and that 's not the same thing .
27 The thing about the Neighbourhood Watch is that everyone in the area is a member whether they really want to be one or not to be honest .
28 I am , by nature , one of the latter , but I yearn to be one of the former , and many years of travelling has led me to a kind of uneasy compromise .
29 ‘ You look to be nineteen or twenty , but sometimes the way you talk makes me think you 're older . ’
30 ‘ We are not together because we happen to be two women , ’ says Sandra .
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