Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The army authorities appear to have been afraid that they would intervene to prevent the arrest of the paramilitary officers and mounted a special operation by 43 Royal Marine Commando to arrest them also . |
| 2 | While some dragons may have been comets , or indeed auroras , the majority appear to have been meteoric fireballs . |
| 3 | Various types of cognitive therapy to bring an improvement in psychiatric disorders by altering maladaptive thinking appear to have been successful ( Gelder , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Lancashire burial registers , for instance , refer to fever , ague fever and pleurisy , but several diseases rather than a single culprit appear to have been responsible . |
| 5 | What the protestant loyalists in effect seek to maintain is protestant — loyalist domination within a flexible territory , one which they feel justified in calling their land and ruling according to their conscience . |
| 6 | Most of the clergy and the peasants were not subjected to the hazards of battle , and the higher clergy seem to have been good risks for the actuary . |
| 7 | What supporters seem to overlook is that football is a game of two sides — one side has to lose otherwise it is a draw . |
| 8 | What the sociobiologists have identified are some underlying relationships and latent forms of human behaviour . |
| 9 | Their office blocks appear to have been symmetrical and , as The Saturday remarked , based on the architecture of fourteenth-century Flemish Town Halls ; ‘ very picturesque and well massed up , albeit a little slight in parts , particularly the towers ’ . |
| 10 | Certainly in England some judges appear to have been unaware of the shift in emphasis which had taken place in the law . |
| 11 | However , there are different kinds of planners — the Orcadian planners seem to have been unreceptive to public opinion whereas in Shetland they may have been younger and more immature but they listened to complaints . |
| 12 | Almost all sites probably had one or more resident blacksmith and coppersmith , both repairing old items and manufacturing new ones , whereas plumbers , pewterers and tinsmiths seem to have been rarer ; only one goldsmith is known , while no silversmiths are attested . |
| 13 | For the most part the artists Rosenthal and Joachimedes have chosen are fine ; the problem is the narrowness of perspective this list imposes . |
| 14 | Do you think what the parents have decided is fair ? |
| 15 | Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s . |
| 16 | All these groups seem to have been nomadic or partly so . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At least two coaches seem to have been involved in a collision in the Leopoldstadt , near the canal . |
| 20 | His statement and robust delivery from the dispatch box in front of an initially sceptical House of Commons appear to have been sufficient to rally Conservative backbenchers . |
| 21 | But given that the authors themselves say that 20 per cent of those over 80 suffer from senile dementia ( p. 297 ) an important group of clients and their carers seem to have been dis-enfranchised . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | At Phaistos , Gournia and Myrtos Pyrgos , these intermediate buildings seem to have been absent : instead , a temple or equivalent large building stood on a hill summit , dominating a town quarter of small houses . |
| 24 | State department officials seem to have been concerned that the conference would deflect attention from their own campaign to expose the alleged use of mycotoxins by Vietnam in Laos and Kampuchea . |
| 25 | In the early Tudor period , the main occasions for insurrections seem to have been fiscal . |
| 26 | None reached its intended target and the only casualties that the terrorists have caused are two passing civilians hit by flying glass and debris — one is seriously ill . |
| 27 | Citing Maccoby and Jacklin , Greer argues that the gender differences mainstream psychologists have found are insignificant . |
| 28 | They walk solemnly , exhibiting the discipline that even the industrialists concede has been one of Niyogi 's great contributions to their factories . |
| 29 | Both of these deals appear to have been routine commercial transactions , with scant political significance . |
| 30 | Although some catholic bishops are known to have been exiled during the reign of Alaric II , where there is any detailed evidence of the circumstances , factors other than religious conflict appear to have been important . |