Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trading forecasts On this there does not , at least , seem to have been a great internal dispute . |
| 2 | There seem to have been a lot of people who took up painting for a while and then dropped it : often enough , like the young Roger Vadim , to become a cineaste or a designer in the lively world of small theatres ( which are also extensively documented in the Pavillon des Arts . ) |
| 3 | If one takes the views of the architects explicitly asked this question in the AMERG survey then the reforms seem to have been a mixed blessing ( 42 per cent thinking them to be beneficial and 29 per cent not to be ) . |
| 4 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 5 | ‘ Symptom substitution ’ was notable for its absence , and the ‘ underlying psychological problems ’ seem to have been a result rather than a cause . |
| 6 | From their shapes , these marks seem to have been a form of writing . |
| 7 | And , as we noted , the movement of which Jesus and his followers seem to have been a part regarded the Maccabean regime as a prototype for their own aspirations . |
| 8 | By this period he was seriously addicted to the tranquillizer , nembutal , and there seem to have been a number of objects to which he attached his fears — lifts and large animals among them . |
| 9 | Even then , there were land development issues associated with local state support for the new system of owner-occupation but , in comparison with developments after 1975 , the 1930s seem to have been a period during which previous social forms were suspended rather than transformed . |
| 10 | Comfrey is one of the herbs that seem to have been a remedy for all ills , and one that the mediaeval and Elizabethan physicians and herbalists would never be without . |
| 11 | Reliefs or statues on Attic graves in this period seem to have been a fashion among the rich aristocracy , especially for those who died young . |
| 12 | ‘ Your interviews seem to have been a great success , ’ said Melissa casually as she helped herself to cheese . |
| 13 | ‘ I seem to have been a shock to a number of people . |
| 14 | The bombardment destroyed our first system , of course , and there seem to have been a lot of gas shells landing amongst our gunners — those that were n't killed — and they say the Hun did a lot of damage with his trench mortars and those awful Minenwerfers . |
| 15 | I suppose in the nineteen fifties we all thought that was the answer to energy production , but there seem to have been a lot of problems over these since then . |
| 16 | They seem to have been an unscrupulous family , willing to exploit their closeness to the crown . |
| 17 | The profits are not easy to assess , in the absence of receipts for copper sales , but seem to have been an average of £1,248 per month in 1844 and £2,952 p.m. in 1846–7 . |
| 18 | They seem to have been an unscrupulous family , willing to exploit their closeness to the crown . |