Example sentences of "[noun] seem [to-vb] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both methods seem to have been used at Ife , depending on the metal to be cast . |
| 2 | But since all large commercially-made cylinders seem to have been copied from standard ones , there was no increase in quality , only in volume . |
| 3 | All foreign branches seem to have been closed for financial reasons in 1891–1892 , but Wilson , after the refloating of the union in 1894 , persisted in his international endeavours , establishing new branches in Hamburg , Rotterdam and Antwerp in the following year and an agency in New York , and accepting the logic of the shipowners ' often repeated argument that British claims to higher pay would be more convincing if foreign rates were brought up to British levels . |
| 4 | Certain kinds of employers ' combinations seem to have been hindered by antitrust legislation and this may help to explain the generally low level of organisation among employers . |
| 5 | Except for a brief success for Wilson in London and Southampton , cooks and stewards seem to have been stimulated by his recruiting drive to set up their own organisation rather than to join the NSFU . |
| 6 | There are criticisms , but in fact the majority of criticisms seem to have been directed at the faults in the administrative procedures , as opposed to problems with the syllabus or assessment procedures . |
| 7 | At least some of these criticisms seem to have been taken on board in the recent proposals for reform of UK competition policy described in section II above . |
| 8 | True , some plates seem to have been designed as a reminder , sometimes polite , sometimes far from it , that the volume has strayed from its proper home . |
| 9 | The texts seem to have been composed as a result of work in and on language . |
| 10 | As archbishop , his only quotations from Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law seem to have been taken at second hand from a treatise of his friend Gilbert Crispin ; then too , as on the earlier occasion , his quotations were introduced only to reinforce a conclusion which he had already reached . |
| 11 | Rigorous steps to avoid selection biases seem to have been taken in only two of the four studies of immature babies — namely , those of Hofmeyr et al . |
| 12 | In fact , all notions about the theory of relativity seem to have been extracted from the symbol . |
| 13 | Curiously , most of the rules seem to have been conceived for print media : there are few pieces of TV and radio ‘ folklore ’ of this kind . |
| 14 | Copies seem to have been made from casts of the original , with the help of a pointing machine which allowed certain basic measurements to be reproduced mechanically . |
| 15 | The body and the upper stand seem to have been made in a single casting . |
| 16 | Indeed , in many of these later works , coherent and sequential narrative patterns seem to have been abandoned in order to be more representational , as in Mobile ( 1962 ) , Réseau aérien ( 1962 ) and 6 810 000 litres d'eau par seconde ( 1966 ) . |
| 17 | The striking head is difficult to parallel stylistically , and the teeth seem to have been cut with an abrasive wheel which would not have been available in the Americas before the Spanish conquest . |
| 18 | Some of these livings they were certainly granted by the influence of English churchmen and the king , eager to retain representatives at the Curia , but the majority seem to have been acquired through papal provision : the pope was remunerating his servants out of the English church 's endowments , much to the growing fury of English patrons and politicians . |
| 19 | Two different strategies seem to have been adopted by researchers in tackling the problems outlined in 7.5 and 7.6 , which are associated with the relationship between syntax and various types of meaning . |
| 20 | American railway architects in this period seem to have been fascinated by the notion of the integration of the station offices with the train-shed , for many of the stations which emerged from the grander developments of the 1850s and 1860s consisted of side buildings with the trains running into the interior through grand portals . |
| 21 | Most of the key decisions on military and political expenditure overseas in this period seem to have been taken in the Defence Committee , and simply endorsed by the Cabinet . |
| 22 | In the Irish general election of 1989 PR might at first sight of the figures seem to have been provided with remarkably close approximation to perfect accuracy : A favourable impression would , however , be superficial and misleading . |
| 23 | The 1989 Report shows that the Committee considered these matters at length , and , because of this foresight , most of the technical problems seem to have been overcome without too much trouble , and complaints have been minimal , The equipment in the Chamber of the House is remarkably compact . |
| 24 | Apart from the removal of the track brakes , few modifications seem to have been made to any of these cars before the 1914–1918 war . |
| 25 | Both aspects of the legal realist movement seem to have been influenced by pragmatism . |
| 26 | Popular movements between the late fourteenth and the early sixteenth centuries are best understood in the broader context of developments in peasant society , even although most such risings seem to have been prompted by political or fiscal considerations rather than by social grievances . |
| 27 | Modern petrological studies have gone a long way towards answering this question : polished hard-rock axes seem to have been made from stone obtained from a limited number of outcrops . |
| 28 | There are few examples outside Kent and none of those found in the upper Thames valley seem to have been buried as complete sets . |
| 29 | Times must still have been hard down Whittox Lane , though nearly all its inhabitants seem to have been employed in some way or another — most of them in the clothing trade , alongside Mr. Middleditch , the Badcox Lane Baptist minister , and Charles Dyer , 23 , a coal miner . |
| 30 | The only real grumbles are that the tagging system does n't go far enough , a column and page breaking tag is essential , and that the keyboard shortcuts for the PC version seem to have been changed from the earlier version . |