Example sentences of "[pron] seem [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barnabas Thomas , cousin of Gordon Thomas , who seems to have been resident engineer of the site , explained that the fall was due to the cleavage of the strata and not a general slip of the bench . |
| 2 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 3 | In 1938 there seem to have been tentative discussions with the Colonial Office over a sell-out to the British government . |
| 4 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 7 | The elusive nature of the reactions seen in food intolerance makes it difficult to rule out this diagnosis without very thorough testing , and there seems to have been undue reliance on skin-prick tests in this study , despite the fact that these are unreliable indicators in most cases of food sensitivity . |
| 8 | On one hand there seems to have been strong appreciation of fine results achievable under dual control of violin and keyboard , as in Italian opera . |
| 9 | Even in 1377 there seems to have been considerable evasion ; in 1381 this was certainly far worse . |
| 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 personation going on here . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | With the last three murders it seems to have been pure chance that a suitable victim did , in fact , come along . ’ |
| 16 | Here he encountered Charles I 's young daughter Elizabeth [ q.v. ] , to whom he seems to have been some kind of chaplain and with whose virtues he was much taken . |
| 17 | The prestige of Oswiu 's family , or else its capacity for intimidation , must have been very considerable for Aldfrith to return and rule in what seems to have been domestic peace . |