Example sentences of "[vb base] to have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both factors appear to have been operating ; Chapter Four has shown the greater volume of major services ( such as home help and day centres ) being used by sample members in Newham . |
| 2 | These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald . |
| 3 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 4 | Well , now the FADs are galvanised — on record , thanks to Fall producer Craig Leon , who transformed recent comeback single ‘ It 's Not What You Know ’ from a bitter mumble into a magnificent , eloquent tirade — but live , they appear to have been studying drama at summer school . |
| 5 | ‘ At the moment the big givers appear to have been giving more and the smaller ones less , ’ Fountain says . |
| 6 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 7 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 8 | Dickerson and Lee seem to have been saving Malcolm X up for years ; they were buddies at film school . |
| 9 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 10 | I seem to have been blathering on and on . |
| 11 | Amis has only three definite things in his life ; his skills , his van , and his career plan , and all of them seem to have been taking a beating over the past few weeks . |
| 12 | Following on from the evidence of tension in Permian Europe , in the Trias there seem to have been rifting structures everywhere , such as , for example , the horst and graben structures of the Midland coalfields of England . |
| 13 | You seem to have been avoiding me since lunch . ’ |
| 14 | Yet so far I seem to have been treating nothing worse than chicken pox and ‘ flu . |
| 15 | You seem to have been doing rather well out of those . ’ |
| 16 | Firms within the zones seem to have been doing better than equivalent companies elsewhere . |
| 17 | The heaviest copper head from Ife weighs almost 7 kg so the Ife smiths seem to have been working at the limits of this technique . |
| 18 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 19 | They seem to have been missing in action , releasing a couple of singles off the last album without providing any back-up tours to promote them . |
| 20 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |
| 21 | This may in fact may have been the prime interest of most of those gathered at Enham , who seem to have been attending something very like a French peace meeting . |
| 22 | GEMINI You seem to have been concentrating more on group than individual efforts lately . |
| 23 | In the bigger world , the GATT talks seem to have been going on forever , with Downing Street promising for two years that the end was in sight . |
| 24 | The changes seem to have been alternating periods of humid conditions and aridity . |
| 25 | Are there aspects of training that you find to have been missing or superficial now that you have had the chance of putting your technical skill to the test ? |