Example sentences of "there seems to be " in BNC.

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1 Young and old people may be affected and there seems to be no way of knowing who will have this kind of problem .
2 Discuss it with other parents or schoolteachers if there seems to be a problem locally .
3 Today , in the early 1990s there seems to be every possibility their taste for autocracy and power might persuade the police that secrecy should take on a new dimension , so that sedition could acquire new status as a deviance , while even the ‘ espionage ’ of ethnography could well become actionable .
4 There seems to be little chance of any philosophical , unprogrammatic enquiry here which might be critical of the system ; and no ‘ espionage ’ from within !
5 There seems to be an attraction amongst marquetarians for depicting Dickensian scenes of cobbled streets populated by pseudo-Dickensian characters .
6 There seems to be a dearth of good small tools across the board .
7 There seems to be no let-up with the continuing rise in patronage , even in the Network SouthEast area where the August 1989 approval to spend £257million on Networker units will inevitably attract more passengers when they are introduced .
8 There seems to be an idea in South Africa that Britain will protect the country in the Security Council and fight against the imposition of sanctions .
9 There seems to be a terribly quiet joke going on here , based on Renko 's former reputation as a bit of a cold fish .
10 When you are starting out in the music business there seems to be an impenetrable jungle of initials to understand : MCPS , PPL , MPA , PRS , BASCA , BMI , ASCAP ; the list seems endless ! so what are they all for ?
11 As in the Fall narrative , which it resembles in more ways than one , there seems to be no going back ; our original innocence , the wholeness of an original bisexuality , is never retrievable .
12 According to the Archbishop of Canterbury , ‘ There seems to be a movement from consensus to confrontation and also a growing scale of confrontation . ’
13 There seems to be no saturation point .
14 There seems to be an awful lot of noise going on , darling , ’ said Mrs Wexford sleepily .
15 There seems to be a lot more to this than meets the eye , ’ said Sergeant Camb indignantly .
16 There seems to be a ring of light round everything — It is still and sunny — so still you could hear a spider spin .
17 There seems to be plenty of confidence between topweight Bonanza Boy in tomorrow 's Coral Welsh National and last year 's winner is now 3-1 joint favourite with Ghofar following two bets of £7,000 to £2,000 with the sponsors .
18 There seems to be a need to maintain the belief that ‘ straights ’ , grown-ups would be shocked , damaged , altered , if they were around to hear the music .
19 There seems to be a common thread here — a desire to rise above northern grim limits into a world of sleek , cosmopolitan opportunity , and at the same time an anxiety to retain one 's roots .
20 In the first three years of a Service 's Long-Term Costing after the actual estimates year , there seems to be a bow-wave of requirements that can not be fitted into the programme .
21 Historically there seems to be no doubt that the English Common Law required nothing for the celebration of a marriage beyond the declared agreement of the parties , which might take the form either of a declaration of present intention , or of a promise to marry followed by actual union .
22 Moreover , there seems to be nothing artificial in principle in holding the acts of an employee done in the course of his employment as equivalent to the acts of the employer .
23 There seems to be no logical reason for ignoring some and then picking on one , but one can only suppose that , having missed , for whatever reason , their first opportunity of causing trouble , the authorities were just glad to get a second chance .
24 Museums and archaeology both suffer from chronic under-funding , and at present there seems to be no cause for optimism that this situation will change .
25 Nevertheless , there seems to be ample proof that the depression exerted some short-term downward impact upon birth rates , especially in the early 1930s at the height of the depression .
26 There seems to be a profound antipathy between the French and Germans about learning each other 's language .
27 Finally , a protest from a woman who says she had just finished Helen Bullock 's ‘ oh-so-true ’ article when her husband came in and said : ’ ‘ There seems to be a bit of toast on the floor in the other room ’ .
28 There seems to be a lot of anger locked up in a sense of competition that he apparently directs first and foremost against himself ; and it is clear that his endless tampering with his swing must have at least as much to do with mind-control as with bodily mechanics — either that , or Faldo has a very perverse and forgetful body indeed .
29 Then he turns towards the wizened , worn-out figure of the 87-year-old woman sitting beside him and says : ‘ He is doing all right , there seems to be some response .
30 They must have done some good ( Cipolla points out that their principles were the same as those of the great 19th-century sanitary reformers such as Sir Edwin Chadwick ) , and yet there seems to be no way of telling from the surviving evidence whether lives were saved as a result .
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