Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The fourth variable is energy , and there appear to be two issues here .
2 There thus appear to be two relationships between subjective risk and memory in driving .
3 ‘ There appear to be two parties to date who are significantly interested in the property and we expect an offer very shortly . ’
4 There appear to be two types of modifiability in cortical neurons : a slow , irreversible process that occurs during early development , and a rapid , reversible one that continues to operate through life .
5 As the answer to the first of these shows , the pair are closely linked ; for there appear to be two kinds of criteria for identifying the dominant instance of a society , which are more or less explicitly mentioned in Althusser 's work .
6 ‘ There always appear to be two explanations of everything .
7 ‘ We are not together because we happen to be two women , ’ says Sandra .
8 I happen to be three doors away , and dropping it in my lap is a discreet step short of making an official report .
9 There are some excellent villages , like Iholdy , where the church and the frontón are so close together they seem to be one building , and the church has an unusual , very charming wooden gallery attached to the side wall .
10 We have heard the Minister repeat the same argument in response to several interventions , and there seem to be two strands running through it : one of principle and one of administration .
11 There seem to be two choices in noise right now , two routes to oblivion .
12 There seem to be two reasons for this differential response to the human capital theory : education in Cuba extends beyond the classroom to the fields and the factories , while in capitalist countries it is restricted to the classroom .
13 There seem to be two states of the transcendent .
14 There seem to be two boards — like the " dignified " and " efficient " parts of Bagehot 's English constitution .
15 Therefore , there seem to be two bases on which a contractual term can be attacked even though it does not attempt to restrain a party after the contractual period had ended .
16 Although they live together and have children they do n't seem to be a couple , they just seem to be two people who do their own thing .
17 There seem to be two ways of focusing on someone 's weaknesses .
18 every letter composed of dots that seem to be six inches apart .
19 What seem to be four candlesticks — designed in the same sugary style — stand guard around it and a fifth , a little distance from the main confectionary , is crowned with a gilded figure .
20 However , there seem to be four characteristics of practice — of ‘ doing ’ — which tend to distinguish it from theorizing or ‘ knowing ’ .
21 however , on examination this becomes less clear cut , since there seem to be three categories — the voluntary ; the required but not closely monitored ; and the fully enforced .
22 The student ranges tend to be one price for all colours .
23 The student ranges tend to be one price for all colours .
24 Although there are half a million Methodists , there tend to be 50 speakers who dominate proceedings I am told , but the democratic ( half ministers — half members ) quota means that some circuits can elect seventeen-year-old girls to be their delegates to the conference .
25 I mean , some people have kind of butterfly minds , with butterfly behaviour , and they switch from being one type of person or another type of person almost minute by minute .
26 Finally , the mortality rate is such that although toads can live for 40 years or more in captivity , only about 1 per cent of the population live to be eight years or more in the wild .
27 Would there have to be one designer , or could not the world have been designed by several working together ?
28 A commonplace gesture of History : there have to be two races — the masters and the slaves .
29 Yeah we have to be two rock and roll ones each .
30 Summarising the conditions precedent to the operation of s739 the Financial Secretary stated : Under the clause … there have to be three conditions precedent .
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