Example sentences of "there [vb past] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Doone with slight reluctance admitted that there seemed to be marble stuck to the underside of one more floorboard on each side of the hole . |
| 32 | ‘ There was this huge explosion and glass everywhere and there seemed to be an age of silence before pandemonium broke loose . |
| 33 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ There seemed to be no sign of a struggle . |
| 34 | We became eerily conscious of the fact that there seemed to be an absence even of wild life : animal , bird or insect . |
| 35 | There seemed to be a high proportion of classical scholars — Denys Page , Hugh Last and T. B. L. Webster among them — which was not surprising given the traditional Civil Service preference for the logical mind associated with the products of Greats or the Cambridge Classical Tripos . |
| 36 | Thunder exploded , roll after roll after roll , so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment . |
| 37 | Yet despite being the most powerful man in the world , in command of some of the most deadly and sophisticated weaponry ever designed , there seemed to be nothing he could do . |
| 38 | The more Jane Holt mulled things over in her mind , the less cause there seemed to be for alarm . |
| 39 | There seemed to be no logic or direction to the factory 's activities . |
| 40 | Judged in terms of former occupations , there seemed to be much more variety within than between classes . |
| 41 | There seemed to be nothing else nowadays , and in any case Roland did not want to be thought insular . |
| 42 | There seemed to be a weakness in the wicker wall at his feet . |
| 43 | There seemed to be enough of them . |
| 44 | There seemed to be some other words at the bottom of the landscape , but O could not make these out . |
| 45 | There seemed to be a double standard at work , albeit one rooted in political expediency — Authorship was bad , Gay Authorship was good . |
| 46 | When she was seen there seemed to be no good reason for this strange reversal in her clinical course . |
| 47 | Within the ranks of the music press , there seemed to be a genuine grief at the split and the band 's loyal followers responded accordingly , filling the letter pages with tearful , doleful sentiment . |
| 48 | There seemed to be few females outwith these two categories . |
| 49 | When he 'd gone , there seemed to be a large vacuum in the café . |
| 50 | Since these measures were to be accompanied by a tight control over the supply of bank credits , there seemed to be a reasonable chance that the new policy would succeed in bringing the foreign balance closer to a state of equilibrium . |
| 51 | There seemed to be something which I had not properly understood . |
| 52 | There seemed to be no blood but his legs were strangely wide apart . |
| 53 | There seemed to be a lot of faces I had not noticed in the original team . |
| 54 | There seemed to be more quarrels indoors when the children were crowded together . |
| 55 | As I used up my energy , telling everyone how great the world was , so there seemed to be no replacement . |
| 56 | The fascination was , however , accompanied by fear , and there seemed to be an inner conflict between his Christian beliefs and the sorcery of witchcraft . |
| 57 | This was achieved by utilising the sorting facilities of the database to focus the direction of the study on areas where there seemed to be potential for improvement . |
| 58 | There seemed to be two areas of subject-matter where quadraphonics might have an artistic advantage , drama and wildlife recording , so it seemed very sensible when the first ‘ quadraphonic ’ record of birdsong was announced . |
| 59 | However , there seemed to be a risk of a further overdose because it was clear that this one had not produced the desired effect . |
| 60 | I have not tried to present the counts on a basis of woodland types as there seemed to be too few of most visited to give useful results . |