Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem that Scotland somehow has to overcome is that fact that while there is a high degree of quality there remains the worrying lack of quantity . |
| 2 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 3 | There does not appear to have been any significant progress on this in the intervening twenty-four years . |
| 4 | There does not appear to have been any significant pressure from voluntary organizations or the public . |
| 5 | There do not appear to have been any empirical studies which have looked for an increase in the amount of information reflected in share prices as a result of the commencement of trading in index futures ( except in so far as volatility reflects information ; see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 6 | There do not appear to have been any children ( none are mentioned in his will ) . |
| 7 | In the Fuqua case there does not appear to have been any problem of divisional interdependence , but this will not always be the case . |
| 8 | What they did not seem to perceive was that non-intervention in the Spanish conflict was part of the policy of appeasement then being followed by the western powers , or that , even if a European war began before the Spanish conflict were settled , the European democracies would be reluctant to take on extended commitments , especially if this meant running the risk — as they saw it — of assisting communism on Europe 's southern flank . |
| 9 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |
| 10 | The practical services rendered by each side to the other do not seem to have been all that large although there is still considerable speculation about the volume of weapons with which the Vietminh were supplied . |
| 11 | They were a primitive and tribal people , and do not seem to have been such fierce opponents as the Saxons . |
| 12 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 13 | Difficulties arise because there does not seem to have been any system of numbering or any attempt to group subjects . |
| 14 | The news about the lady 's quiverful of kiddies does not seem to have been any more than a very temporary dose of saltpetre , and it 's worn off . |
| 15 | … there does not seem to have been any dispute between the parties [ in Tharsis Sulphur ] . |
| 16 | Well , when , when it comes to talking about er transport in a rural area and , and talking about transport in the Western Isles , er were not talking about buses or trains , were talking about ferries and , and planes and you just wonder when you hear some of the statistics erm from these companies just what sort of service they are at providing to local people , where your talking about ferries at arriving in , in port at half past eleven to half past twelve at night , that 's not a service for local people , I mean you hear about British Airways increasing their domestic fares to er , by seven per cent as of the beginning of April er you just have to ask is this a service been put up provided for er local people , and it just is n't . |
| 17 | The palaeoenvironments also appear to have been little different from those of the afropithecins , with closed woodland-forest indicated for Fort Ternan , although some authors infer open country or even grassland for this site . |
| 18 | There also appears to have been some confusion over photo credits : the colour photo on page 507 was actually taken by this reviewer , but is one of a number of photos incorrectly credited to another person . |
| 19 | What he should also have realized was that , although the play had been a flop , The Wit To Woo demonstrated to Ken that the producer was a man to be trusted . |
| 20 | The relational variety is the most important , and the relations that typically get expressed are those between : ( i ) speaker and referent ( e.g. referent honorifics ) ( ii ) speaker and addressee ( e.g. addressee honorifics ) ( iii ) speaker and bystander ( e.g. bystander or audience honorifics ) ( iv ) speaker and setting ( e.g. formality levels ) We can talk of honorifics just where the relation in ( i ) -(iii) concerns relative rank or respect ; but there are many other qualities of relationship that may be grammaticalized , e.g. kinship relations , totemic relations , clan membership , etc. , as made available by the relevant social system . |
| 21 | An area where WordPerfect really does excel is that of printer drivers . |
| 22 | At the same time , you can see the domestic holidays the pattern 's less clear , but certainly there does n't appear to have been any growth . |
| 23 | The Conservatives were also putting forward of course prudent growth in important areas and one of the areas that I would particularly like to mention is that of nursery education . |
| 24 | There even seems to have been some notion of carrying the plateway along as far as Husbands Bosworth . |
| 25 | John Smith , the shadow Chancellor , said last night : ‘ What he does n't seem to realise is that interest rates mean that it will be much harder for industry to get on its feet to help us overcome the balance of payments deficit . |
| 26 | There therefore does n't seem to have been much of a change , and furthermore Smith ( 1983 ) in his text specifically entitled Recreation Geography has also followed this model , albeit in the modified form of the relationship between ‘ travel/resources ’ which he calls the two main branches of the tree of recreation geography . |
| 27 | But there do n't seem to have been any serious consequences from the BBC spoof . |
| 28 | What people sometimes fail to realise is that standard provisions are fine as a general guide but that they often have to be amended ( or even dropped altogether ) to allow the transaction to make ‘ commercial sense ’ on both sides . |
| 29 | But what you 're actually going to find is that what they 've divorced themselves from is the assistance and the technical help that comes from the County Council , and whilst you may have your teachers trained up to a certain point you therefore have at that particular time you you have them fully trained , and then you say oh well I do n't need any training for the next couple of years so I can step back and save on that area . |
| 30 | What commonly seems to happen is that project work comes to consist of the accumulation of large amounts of haphazard information , often copied directly from reference books . |