Example sentences of "to have been [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In families that did not indulge themselves in this way a healthier climate prevailed ; children do not seem to have been unduly obsessed with death . |
| 2 | He was educated privately , and was always very reticent about his early years : he seems to have been largely self-taught in music . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the pattern appears to have been broadly similar for finance , transport , oil refining and distribution . |
| 4 | I ought to have been very grateful to ATV for sponsoring my work . |
| 5 | Death was the result of sepsis , bowel infarction , and renal failure none of which appear to have been readily preventable in retrospect . |
| 6 | She may look back with longing to the coffee-breaks and lunch hours she used to share with colleagues at work , which may seem in retrospect to have been so full of interest- and best of all , laughter , forgetting any strains that existed in her job . |
| 7 | Historically , people appear to have been more philosophical about inability to conceive and bear a child , and most childless people did not question themselves about it , unless they felt it was a kind of punishment . |
| 8 | In data quoted by Langdon Brown , the condition appears to have been more common in summer months , and in June–July , 1862 , there were 148 deaths . |
| 9 | More generally , political influences appear to have been especially important by way of a facilitating role of socialist ideology in broadening the structural form of unions away from concern with narrow and particularistic special interests . |
| 10 | This idea has been applied to the African Plate which , according to some analyses of plate motions , appears to have been almost stationary with respect to the underlying asthenosphere for the past 25–35 Ma . |
| 11 | Tom Gower from Southport , though , seemed to have been as anxious for reassurance as he was to express solidarity . |