Example sentences of "[ex0] [verb] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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1 | After an appropriate opening , it was addressed by the pope , but so great was the crowd that one reporter could not hear the content of the speech and there appear to have been several fatal accidents in the crush . |
2 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
3 | Nor does there seem to have been any wholesale burning of books and manuscripts . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
7 | However , there seems to have been little empirical work done on such courses . |
8 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
9 | There seems to have been much genuine enthusiasm for the renewal of war with France in the early eighteenth century . |
10 | In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 ’ . |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | ‘ There seems to have been some personation going on here . |
15 | 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 ) . |
16 | This requires careful planning , especially in the allocation of committee rooms for use by committees which are to be broadcast , but , in practice , there appears to have been little difficulty . |
17 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
18 | Thus despite the companies ' use of highly toxic chemicals , such as cyanide , there appears to have been little or no state regulation of the environmental impact of mining , until the Navan mines project . |
19 | In the more notorious slum districts , there appears to have been little or no respect for the law . |
20 | There appears to have been some slackness in staff discipline in that teachers were often late for , or even absent from , lectures . |
21 | Even allowing for the restricted staff , there appears to have been some lack of organization of the lecturing programme in Coleman 's later years . |
22 | There appears to have been some resistance within the Soviet military to Khrushchev 's doctrine of ‘ minimum deterrence ’ — the USSR , he had complained in 1963 , could not produce ‘ nothing but rockets ’ — and the Cuban missile crisis and later the Vietnam War delayed the signature of further agreements . |