Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [adj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems to have been content with his wife , though he saw little enough of her in the years which followed . |
| 2 | Local goldsmiths evidently learnt from this , but in general Greek craftsmen and patrons seem to have been content with their own style . |
| 3 | Now sexism is so fundamental an evil that it becomes very difficult for anyone who has grasped this to envisage that God could be said to have been involved with human history . |
| 4 | Trust Rune Christensen to have been involved with the most exquisite-looking woman in the room ! |
| 5 | Outside the wall , except on the north side , where the river came to its foot , there appears to have been only a single ditch , some 6.5 m ( 21 ft ) wide and 2.5 m ( 8 ft ) deep , which had been truncated by the medieval ditch ; it is most likely to have been contemporary with the early rampart . |
| 6 | In fact Mr Major , who is said to have been delighted with the way Mr Waldegrave introduced the health reforms , has put him in charge of implementing the Citizen 's Charter . |
| 7 | Yet Rider Haggard seems to have been dissatisfied with his presentation of the character ( and naturally he must have been influenced , as a professional novelist , by the enormous popularity and sales of She ) and he did not resist the temptation to give his readers a further insight into her . |
| 8 | The Chinese leaders appear to have been dissatisfied with a number of aspects of the Sino-Soviet treaty of 1950 , and at the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956 they were reportedly unhappy about the manner in which Khrushchev had denounced the actions of Stalin . |
| 9 | Though some of them seem to have been familiar with the writings of some of the others , each worked independently and developed a personal view of the mystical life . |
| 10 | Although they do not seem to have been familiar with the work of Saussure , Wimsatt and Brooks here might appear to be approaching his principle that the meaning of words is purely conventional and arbitrary . |
| 11 | It seemed to have been present with her throughout her sleep so promptly had it appeared when she woke . |
| 12 | He seems to have been intimate with the king and perhaps prominent at court : writing in 1258 , the poet John Garland [ q.v. ] |
| 13 | In 1323–5 Ramsey worked as a mason at St Stephen 's chapel in Westminster Palace , but seems to have been identical with the Master William de Ramesseye in charge of works at Norwich Cathedral in 1326–31 . |
| 14 | When the king next had to raise money for the duchy of Normandy in 1096 , he seems to have been satisfied with Anselm 's offer : at least we hear no complaint . |
| 15 | Despite the many grumbles and adverse comments , 70 per cent of all employers interviewed claimed to have been satisfied with the standard of work of young people taken on by them in the previous two years , and only 14 per cent expressed dissatisfaction . |
| 16 | The simple go/no-go transistor tester described in April 's EE seems to have been popular with quite a few of our readers and several of you have written with specific queries concerning the circuit used . |
| 17 | If the English handicapper appears to have been lenient with Barnbrook Again , the Irish handicapper has been the same with Morley Street . |
| 18 | In view of the Warc footnote , this statement seems to have been economical with the truth . |
| 19 | Whitehall sources believe he is much more likely to have been concerned with such humdrum matters as integrating inter-departmental communications to prepare the ground for Civil Service computerization . |
| 20 | In addition to this breach of the moral duty of fidelity , the court appears to have been concerned with the risk of confidential information being passed to competitors , because it was satisfied that the plaintiffs did own certain business secrets of which the employees had knowledge . |