Example sentences of "there [vb -s] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is routine procedure that there needs to be more than one staff member on the premises when a project is open to the public . |
| 2 | ‘ Jeez , I could do with some leg-over ’ , he sighed , settling back in his seat ‘ I mean , I love my wife , but there has to be more , right ? |
| 3 | There has to be more to it than money . |
| 4 | There has to be more . |
| 5 | The second question which arises for determination is whether the proceeding before the justice or justices , if there happens to be more than one justice before whom the person arrested is brought under section 7(5) , necessitates the giving of evidence on oath with the opportunity to the person arrested or his legal representative to cross-examine and the person arrested having the opportunity to give evidence himself , before the justice of the peace may properly form an opinion on the matters set out in paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) . |
| 6 | From the point when the Government 's high interest rate policies start taking effect to the point when companies start calling in the receiver , there tends to be quite a delay — liquidity problems do not suddenly emerge unless something dramatically goes wrong . |
| 7 | There seems to be rather a lot of names for those who share a proclivity for their own sex . |
| 8 | There seems to be rather a lot of the latter about , if those astute fellows , the marketing and advertising men , are anything to go by . |
| 9 | There seems to be nowhere where we could start , no sentence whose meaning is , as it were , self-contained enough to be learnable as a first step towards learning the rest . |
| 10 | Now there seems to be little demand for good design , and little chance of getting planning permission when a client who wants quality is found . |
| 11 | In situations where there seems to be little acceptable alternative , advice from an alternative practitioner can do little harm , and has potential for considerable good . |
| 12 | Moreover , if the two eventually arrive at the same truth anyway then there seems to be little need for dialectical reason at all . |
| 13 | Advertising revenue seems to be , there seems to be sometimes that there is some slight pick up , the advertising associations predicting a pick up there , one or two companies who have been reporting , have been talking about a little upturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 14 | There seems to be virtually no problem of sexually transmitted infection among lesbians , unless one or other partner also indulges in heterosexual activity as well . |
| 15 | But it is at least interesting that there seems to be this level shift problem embedded within physics itself . |
| 16 | First of all , Councillor comments , erm , you know , there seems to be this this er conservative mentality , that is let's drive all our working conditions down to the level of the competition , which means , you know , we would have a a mining industry if we were prepared to put children in , like that do in Columbia . |
| 17 | There seems to be only one feasible solution that could bring lasting peace . |
| 18 | However , there seems to be more to the formation of a child 's personality at birth than these two viewpoints — that we are either born as a blank sheet or that the formation we have is via our mother , and begins prior to our birth . |
| 19 | But if we look at distant galaxies , there seems to be more or less the same number of them . |
| 20 | However , there seems to be very strong reason indeed to think that there can not be an acceptable account of effects as we conceive them which does not include necessitation . |
| 21 | One thing which has struck me very forcibly through the years is that most of the classic evolutionary lineages of my student days , such as Ostrea-Gryphaea and Zaphrentis delanouei , have long since lost their scientific respectability , and in spite of the plethora of palaeontological information we now have available , there seems to be very little to put in their place . |
| 22 | However , there seems to be very little I can do with it . |
| 23 | Joyriders are a real hazard in and around Scotswood Road , and there seems to be very little that people can do about them , other than give warnings and make arrests . |
| 24 | Mr Chairman , just one quick , and that is it seems to me that there seems to be very few councillors attending . |
| 25 | There seems to be far more scope at the present time for the two generations to become friends . |
| 26 | It is puzzling why this happens year after year and the only feasible reason I can come up with is — there seems to be far too many players competing in too many leagues in and around the Belfast area . |
| 27 | There seems to be absolutely no foundation to either tale . |
| 28 | There seems to be absolutely no evidence in favour of this second , crucial assumption ( nor is there evidence against ; the issue is remarkably unresearched and rarely even regarded as worth discussing ; see Mays and Bevan , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | Although there seems to be fairly clear evidence in favour of an interactional view of sentence comprehension , there remains the question of whether syntactic analysis is optional or obligatory . |
| 30 | Memory is an inadequate guide to advertising effectiveness though , other things being equal , there seems to be quite a good a priori case in favour of memorability . |