Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although , on the face of it , this might not appear to have been conducive to the development of industry-wide bargaining paradoxically such ‘ division by occupation promoted bargaining by industry ’ ( Phelps Brown , 1959 , p. 362 ) . |
| 2 | This pleasure would appear to have been remote from the adult satisfactions mentioned in the previous paragraph and is a manifestation of the ‘ joie de vivre ’ which is at the very heart of the urge for life , which is itself the product of ‘ desire ’ as introduced and discussed in the Second Period . |
| 3 | The degree of professional autonomy would appear to have been higher in the United States than in Britain , and the imbalance in favour of specialist medicine over general practice or family medicine greater still . |
| 4 | Indeed , confirmation of a satisfactory legal outcome would appear to have been apparent during December last year when the legal Director of the EC Commission , Mr Dubois , wrote to the Association 's Solicitors , stating , ‘ … |
| 5 | However unsatisfactory the ancient idea of belligerent reprisals may be , the threat of reprisals does appear to have been effective in this matter ( Kalshoven , 1971 , p. 348 ) . |
| 6 | Swiftly a ‘ marriage bar ’ was introduced , though its application does not appear to have been universal in the civil service until 1894 when government typists ( hitherto an ‘ unestablished ’ all-female grade ) obtained permanent , pensionable ‘ established ’ status by agreeing to a rule requiring automatic resignation on marriage . |
| 7 | However , after a number of years of operation , the APU does not appear to have been conspicuous in its success : most of the background measures are of little use , and there are difficulties in relevant measures . |
| 8 | As for Constantine 's ‘ conversion ’ — if that is the appropriate word — it does not appear to have been Christian at all , but conventionally pagan . |
| 9 | The gap does seem to have been wider in the past ( 26 hours per week in 1961 , for example ) but these time budgets confirm common sense and findings from the Women and Employment Survey that women do more unpaid work than men . |
| 10 | Nguyen Ai Quoc does not seem to have been prominent in these discussions although he was included in a group photograph with Roy , Tan Malaka , and other Asian delegates including three from Japan . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So far as mining is concerned , the long colliery shifts of the nineteenth century do not seem to have been usual in the eighteenth . |
| 13 | There therefore does n't seem to have been much of a change , and furthermore Smith ( 1983 ) in his text specifically entitled Recreation Geography has also followed this model , albeit in the modified form of the relationship between ‘ travel/resources ’ which he calls the two main branches of the tree of recreation geography . |
| 14 | The girl does seem to have been closer to her aunt than to her grandmother who died relatively soon , in her sixties . |
| 15 | Moreover , the decorative features of the temple ( carvings of palmtrees , capitals like lilies , capitals festooned with network , pomegranates , and open flowers ) are all prominent in the repertory of St Polyeuktos , although they do not seem to have been current in contemporary Byzantine sculpture . |
| 16 | On the contrary , they would seem to have been involved in precisely the kind of political and military activity from which Jesus , according to later tradition , is dissociated . |
| 17 | Even Wat Tyler , the most famous of these , does not seem to have been involved in the earliest disturbances in Kent , as he is not mentioned in indictments dealing with disorder in Canterbury on 10 and 11 June , when the leader was John Hales of Malling . |
| 18 | These ‘ would seem to have been traditional at the time , for Ormandy did the same in his Philadelphia recording . |
| 19 | Such logic does not seem to have been present in the court 's decision in R v. |
| 20 | Unlike most other musicians , he did not seem to have been impressed by Louis Armstrong 's seminal appearance at the London Palladium in 1932 . |
| 21 | Rabbits were bred specially and do not seem to have been common until relatively recently . |
| 22 | In terms of the ‘ demographic transition ’ it is a great puzzle to explain why the response to them was so late in a relatively literate , urbanized , and industrialized society where returns from children do not seem to have been plausible for a long time ( R. M. Smith 1981 ) . |
| 23 | Though the authorities do not seem to have been aware of the scale and significance of capital flows within the sterling area , they were aware that the exchange controls in that area were not all that London hoped . |
| 24 | It is fair to add that Leeds does not seem to have been unique in this respect : reporting on an inspection carried out in ‘ ethnically diverse areas within three LEAs ’ ( including five Leeds Phase 1 PNP schools ) in March 1988 , HMI remarked that ‘ none of the three LEAs had specific policies for parent school liaison ’ ( DES 1988a ) . |
| 25 | He had been well aware that she would dearly love to have been one of his girlfriends , more than willing to go to bed with him had he given her any encouragement , and was resentful of his relationship with Liza . |
| 26 | Bernard could not fail to have been impressed by such spontaneous enthusiasm ; equally , Peter felt Bernard was ‘ obviously a man of excitement heading a most intriguing company , I could see that he needed someone to deal with the administration leaving him free to run his company . ’ |