Example sentences of "to have be [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting that Patrick 's activity seems to have been dictated as much by personal disillusion or disappointment as by religious fervour . |
| 2 | The words seemed to have been dragged up one by one from the depths of himself , like prisoners loaded with chains , and released to the world only with great reluctance . |
| 3 | possible evidence for this view can be seen in the only surviving thirteenth-century picture of a Western water-clock , which seems to have been used about 1250 in Paris at the court of Louis IX . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd have been delighted for you to have been squeezed in next to me . |
| 5 | I was enthralled , driving through rural Moravia , Bohemia and Hungary , to see houses which seem to have been preserved almost unchanged since their heyday . |
| 6 | The former boys school is thought to have been founded about 1670 by a member of the Boynton family . |