Example sentences of "there [verb] to be [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the educational non-achievers are over-represented — at the other end of the educational achievement ladder there appear to be hardly any criminals , since only 0.05 per cent of people received into prison have obtained a university degree . |
| 2 | She felt hot and sticky , and there seemed to be far less room at the bottom of the companionway than she remembered . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Given this mood , there seemed to be much that was positive , radical , and energetic in the new English.36 D. G. James , Winterstoke Professor of English at Bristol , urged the recognition that |
| 5 | There seemed to be very little wrong with his competitive edge , or his nerve . |
| 6 | The trouble was that , unlike most other periods of Delhi 's history , there seemed to be very few good primary sources . |
| 7 | There seemed to be so many of them , more and more crowding silently through the ruins wherever she looked . |
| 8 | When they came I was rather surprised that there seemed to be so many ; I said I had no idea that I 'd ordered as many as this . |
| 9 | There seemed to be so little mutual interest , so little to build on . |
| 10 | Despite the constant temptation to misuse an artist 's name , there seem to be very few cases where the customer was actually deceived , although this surely must have happened with some pirate or bootleg records . |
| 11 | In view of these observations it is also interesting to note that there seem to be very few social scientists within communist countries who are involved in developing and testing Marxist-Leninist theory . |
| 12 | Thus while many communities have labels to apply to various linguistic practices at different levels which are evaluated as good or bad by the community — for example , " grammatical " , " sloppy " , " drawl " , " h-dropping " — there seem to be very few or none which relate specifically to code-switching behaviour ( although there are a few terms , such as " Tex-Mex " , which refer to mixed varieties ) . |
| 13 | There seem to be so many additives available for marine tanks that you would need a store room in which to keep them all . |
| 14 | The question of why there seem to be so many more particles than antiparticles around us is extremely important , and I shall return to it later in the chapter . |
| 15 | There seem to be so many different terms — action paintings , abstract impressionisms , realisms , geometrical art , monochromes , dozens of other different terms . |
| 16 | Incomprehensibly , there seem to be as many spotters now in the days of dull diesels and anonymous electrics as there were when we were train-spotters in the last years of steam and the trains bore names like Bihar and Orissa , Baroda , Indore , Drake , Camperdown , and Barfleur , names redolent of history and tradition , summoning up fragrant images of far-off places and the martial rattle of distant centuries . |
| 17 | There seem to be as many casually curious at the gigs as real fans . |
| 18 | There seem to be too many outlets in Wales , for example , but too few in the north of England . |
| 19 | There seem to be too many women with very possessive attitudes towards you ! |
| 20 | This was discussed at the beginning of the previous chapter , but it needs to be stated again that there seem to be comparatively few and small areas on the shelves at the present day where sediment is actively accumulating . |
| 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 | What is most damaging to Christianity is not that Christians doubt but that there seems to be so little open discussion and understanding of doubt . |
| 27 | As she says : ‘ There seems to be so little appreciation of the potentially devastating emotional effect of finding yourself a victim ’ |
| 28 | There seems to be so much to learn , so much to absorb . |
| 29 | There seems to be so much to be settled . |
| 30 | With the increasing impact of information technology the problem today is sometimes that there seems to be too much information rather than too little . |