Example sentences of "[noun prp] seem [to-vb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived , Montfaucon seemed to have been busy . |
| 2 | Freud seems to have been right in seeing that , at least in Christianity and its associated arts , both in works positively related to it and those antagonistic to it , there is to be found the theme of God the Father , and God the Son , who is sacrificed and eaten in Holy Communion . |
| 3 | But , generally , Ollie seemed to have been good for him and brought his character out a lot . |
| 4 | Now , we hear time and time again of the one million capital that was spent and yes and I do hope that the provisions that will now be made through a combined budget which Mr seems to think is half a million but I can assure you it is not half a million however , I do I can further reassure him that by the time the Highfields er and Moat management committee have gone through with this it will be half a million , there will be a proper budget provision as it should have been in the last five to six years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bernard seems to have been one of those who swore that Pippin would come . |
| 7 | But certainly the family and descendants of Judas of Galilee seem to have been involved in many of the more ambitious , more co-ordinated , more professional Zealot enterprises . |
| 8 | Personally , however , Diderot seems to have been genial and agreeable . |
| 9 | Margaret Thatcher seems to have been Prime Minister all my life , and the Falklands War is just a vague and fearful memory of someone else 's brother going off to fight . |
| 10 | The temple goldsmiths at Mallia seem to have been outstanding . |
| 11 | Cnut 's relations with the see of London seem to have been poor , and on the death of Bishop Ælfwig he could well have wished it to be held by one of his own supporters . |
| 12 | His correspondence with the queen , while it may confute accusations of lasciviousness , reveals the poverty of his courtier mind ; his main concern and topic was the health of the royal couple and his bond with Maria Luisa seems to have been hypochondriacal rather than sexual in nature . |
| 13 | Despite widespread opposition to abolition expressed in opinion polls it is difficult to discern any significant backlash in the 1987 general election — indeed the increase in the Conservative vote in London seems to have been higher than elsewhere . |
| 14 | The DES seem to have been aware of this problem by 1984 when Educational Support Grants ( ESG ) were established ( DES , 1984 ) offering funds to LEAs to appoint consultant teachers who would work with pupils alongside classroom teachers developing practices in curriculum areas which the DES perceived as important . |
| 15 | And this is not altogether surprising ; for Dorothy Pound seems to have been English in a singularly entire and uncompromising fashion . |
| 16 | Kastri on Kythera seems to have been one of the earliest , if not the first , Minoan colony , and it was set up well before 2000 BC . |