Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] [prep] [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to be windows everywhere , like bright eyes , staring down at her , watching her every move . |
| 2 | There seemed to be lights glowing behind the Worm 's flesh , and dimly , very dimly , they could see a room with beds closely grouped together . |
| 3 | The tree was in silhouette , but there seemed to be flames in one of its branches ; flames that licked high , then guttered and were gone , only to flare again … as if a fire was coming and going … as if the fire was not of this time , but spent brief minutes in the tree , then flared in another world , before revisiting the winter branches . |
| 4 | There seemed to be fluctuations and cycles , from one of about twenty seconds to one corresponding to the monthly lunar cycle . |
| 5 | There seemed to be crowds of people lined up on each side of the door and lots were already seated inside the church waiting for the coffin to enter . |
| 6 | Somehow , when she did the same , there seemed to be bits of grit scratching her uncomfortably . |
| 7 | At very small spatial scales , there seemed to be trends in recruitment , growth and mortality that fit the general hypothesis in promoting species richness , but at larger scales , besides the smaller species mentioned above , there were no such discernible trends . |
| 8 | There seemed to be pages . |
| 9 | Communist influence in the ILP was growing and although the ILP leadership remained hostile to Communism , there seemed to be opportunities for greatly expanding the Communist Party at the expense of the older and larger party . |
| 10 | There seemed to be scores of them in the town . |
| 11 | Their peppy ensemble style and ambitious sound gets you thinking of the '70s boom era for Irish acts like The Bothy Band and Clannad , a time when there seemed to be masses of energy and ideas around . |
| 12 | Even if they were reading or washing up , there seemed to be rays of heat running in the air between them . |
| 13 | You could n't describe its colour , except that there seemed to be depths within it , and depths within depths . |
| 14 | Their suspicions aroused , they went back to the files and studied the signatures ; there appeared to be discrepancies . |
| 15 | There appeared to be miles of corridors intersecting , criss-crossing and going nowhere . |
| 16 | The entire area had been roped off and there appeared to be policemen every ten yards . |
| 17 | The result is in line with Roberts , and is consistent with the decision if not the reasoning in Spratt , where the court seems to have been discussing the nature of recklessness , not whether there had to be mens rea as to the occasioning of actual bodily harm . |
| 18 | The NEC believed that there had to be changes and had already begun wide-ranging consultations . |
| 19 | There had to be agencies and clinics that were competent to deal with drug abuse , while the best I could be was an enthusiastic amateur , and that was rarely good enough . |
| 20 | His ‘ crimes ’ , as they saw it , started when he insisted that if there had to be meetings they must be businesslike , properly chaired and follow the agenda . |
| 21 | The ensemble includes two flutes , one doubling piccolo : Mozart never wrote a serenade for wind using flutes , but of course The Magic Flute there had to be flutes , Papageno 's pipes too , represented at the very beginning of the first movement , and returning in the second movement , by the piccolo . |
| 22 | Only 24 hours after the board of Farm Assured Scotch Livestock was polishing its repackaging venture , Richard Canvin , managing director of the Sims Food Group , told a London food conference there had to be incentives to farmers to produce high quality meat . |
| 23 | There had to be punishments , however , not just in the party but in the student body , before the campaign could be concluded . |
| 24 | Of course there had to be detonations , and of course there had to be shooting practice , but Monday morning was hardly the appropriate time . |
| 25 | Peter Donald , the Scottish League secretary , said there had to be grounds for optimism that a solution within the governing body 's framework was now attainable . |
| 26 | There was nothing in the structure of the new scheme that meant there had to be losers . |
| 27 | There had to be cuts , did there ? |
| 28 | However , there continued to be successes from individual business units which resulted from another year of good effort , team work and commitment by Wimpol staff throughout the Group . |