Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the French , the English song-composers were still wide open to Italian influence — and to the new monodic style before the Germans seem to have been aware of it . |
| 2 | In practice in Europe , the returns seem to have been slight , of a kind which could be met by resident servants ( Smith 1981 ) , and did not include automatic old-age support . |
| 3 | The Minoans seem to have been self-sufficient in terms of basic needs , which must have put them in a position of trading strength , but they relied on imports for supplies of exotic raw materials for the manufacture of luxury goods . |
| 4 | When are the teachers going to stop being political animals and get down to teaching rather than try to score points off the Government ? |
| 5 | The delays appear to have been due to administrative confusion and a lack of political will . |
| 6 | The chief marshal notified to the police appears to have been inexperienced and relatively ineffective . |
| 7 | However , it is recognised that awards for comparable injuries should be comparable and in practice in an individual case the amount of the award is much influenced by the amounts of awards in previous cases in which the injuries appear to have been comparable , adjusted as appropriate in the light of the fall in the value of money since such awards were made . |
| 8 | More remarkably , the Mohists appear to have been near to formulating the concept of functional dependence in the relation of motion to time , an idea that was not fully developed until the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century in Europe . |
| 9 | In the main the roofs appear to have been thatched . |
| 10 | Some of the republics appear to have been sympathetic to this idea but in the end no common citizenship of this kind was established , which was hardly reassuring ( for instance ) to the very large Russian minorities in the Ukraine and Moldavia . |