Example sentences of "there seem [to-vb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 2 | There seem to have been two main spurs to this research and writing : fascination about the intellectual origins of American republicanism and worry about the civic health of the nation especially after the trauma of the Vietnam war . |
| 3 | Within this transition , there seem to have been two distinct phases of development , the second of which was ushered in with the final abandonment of all residual concerns with cultural and linguistic policy , and thus indirectly with English in schools . |
| 4 | There seem to have been two principal concerns . |
| 5 | In 1938 there seem to have been tentative discussions with the Colonial Office over a sell-out to the British government . |
| 6 | Nor does there seem to have been any wholesale burning of books and manuscripts . |
| 7 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 8 | Although John Ellis , a botanical and zoological Fellow , had written to Linnaeus , ‘ Miller 's Dictionary is the chief book that is read by gentlemen who study the art of gardening ’ , there seems to have been little pleasant exchange between them . |
| 9 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 10 | However , there seems to have been little empirical work done on such courses . |
| 11 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 12 | The elusive nature of the reactions seen in food intolerance makes it difficult to rule out this diagnosis without very thorough testing , and there seems to have been undue reliance on skin-prick tests in this study , despite the fact that these are unreliable indicators in most cases of food sensitivity . |
| 13 | On one hand there seems to have been strong appreciation of fine results achievable under dual control of violin and keyboard , as in Italian opera . |
| 14 | There seems to have been much genuine enthusiasm for the renewal of war with France in the early eighteenth century . |
| 15 | The belief in ‘ isolated ’ , ‘ primitive ’ hunter-gatherers , rather like the notion of ‘ pristine ’ forest favoured by biologists , is now being replaced by the theory that there seems to have been hundreds and thousands of years of interdependent contact with farmers and even ‘ states ’ . |
| 16 | Even in 1377 there seems to have been considerable evasion ; in 1381 this was certainly far worse . |
| 17 | In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent . |
| 18 | There seems to have been some obfuscation , perhaps deliberate , in the translation of the original Coptic text , but what Jesus appears to say is : ‘ Greetings , my venerable guardian Peter . |
| 19 | In this context there seems to have been some unexplained change of thinking on the part of the Inspectorate because the eight areas of experience ( in Curriculum 11–16 ) were seen as a way of considering a common curriculum , presumably satisfying all aspects of the curriculum including ‘ education and society ’ and ‘ working life ’ . |
| 20 | The Group retains a strong concern with the traditional macro-economic issues of fiscal and monetary policy , inflation , the exchange rates for sterling , UK trade policy and aggregate employment which its UK model was first designed to elucidate and which are still in certain respects important subjects of controversy at the analytic level ( although there seems to have been some convergence of short-term and even medium-term conditional predictions ) . |
| 21 | ‘ There seems to have been some personation going on here . |
| 22 | Again , there seems to have been cross-fertilization between Demant 's work and that of Eliot . |
| 23 | However , in urban areas this was less common and there seems to have been more opportunity for young people to stay in the parental home for longer , because of the greater availability of work in the locality ( Anderson , 1980 , pp. 25–6 ) . |