Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your visit to my grandmother seems to have been most beneficial . ’ |
| 2 | What such critics for their part fail to realize is just how difficult scientific research actually is , how complex the testing of any even seemingly trivial hypothesis or hunch may be , and how many paradoxes and seeming mysteries we confront every day in our research which to us are at least as challenging as , but theoretically more relevant than , fretting about probably untestable phenomena like ESP . |
| 3 | At the time that Friedman was airing his dissatisfaction with the Phillips curve , the complex econometric models of inflation which its discovery had spawned were still predicting inflation reasonably well . |
| 4 | None the less , their investigation appears to have been scrupulously thorough , painting what Callaghan called ‘ a splendid picture ’ , and pointing out political , diplomatic and military deficiencies by the British government . |
| 5 | And his prayer seemed to have been amply answered when the Planetary Guard came for the Valence gang ; though , as is the way with prayers which are answered , there was cause for woe too — for the Valences were to be stripped of their best young fighters . |
| 6 | He concealed his identity with such success that his desire to remain hidden was probably deliberate . |
| 7 | Salter later discovered that the figures on the costs of building his device appeared to have been deliberately misrepresented in order to justify this decision . |
| 8 | Both the Ras and his wife appear to have been very anxious and nervous about the child , and I feel that it would be impossible for me to refuse without risking his friendship which will be of the utmost importance to us in the future . |
| 9 | The last years of his life seem to have been largely given over to this task . |
| 10 | Unusual , perhaps , tiresome to his office — but if the strange behaviour at which his daughter had hinted was really a sort of battiness , the office would have made its own arrangements to get by . |
| 11 | But his daughter proves to have been very properly ill-at-ease among its dazzling lights , long corridors , great staircases and phalanxes of ladies ' maids ; that his second wife should revel in them is an indication of her moral inferiority . |
| 12 | His fatness seems to have been largely the result of good living rather than ill-health ; he had decided to separate from his wife , yet he was obviously in need of looking after . |
| 13 | Like Cromwell himself , he fell seriously ill in that country and his health appears to have been permanently shattered . |
| 14 | By the 1850s his position seems to have been largely nominal , as the Council meetings were chaired by one of the three Vice-Presidents . |
| 15 | In the North the shrine of St Cuthbert at Durham was second only to that of St Thomas , although his appeal seems to have been particularly to northerners ( 209 , pp.28–30 ) . |
| 16 | His vulnerability had put a terrible strain on us , our determination to survive had been badly dented by the constant spectre of emotional collapse . |
| 17 | This means not only avoiding the use of words which might amount to a resignation on your part , but also checking whether words that apparently mean that your job has ended were actually intended to have that effect . |