Example sentences of "seem [verb] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The said Steve , the Mountie went on , seemed to have been in bed asleep at the time of his murder , and the Ontario police were wanting to interview Angelica Standish as a suspect . |
| 2 | Leeds seems to have been under instructions from their manager Wilko to get the ball up the field as quickly as possible , contrary to the previous two games where the more cultured route paid no dividends . |
| 3 | A point worthy of comment is that the settlement grew up mostly in the north-east quadrant of the main road junction ; the western boundary seems to have been along Ryknild Street , since a large cemetery was situated immediately across it . |
| 4 | The textual practices of these nouveaux romanciers reveal a much greater similarity than was previously the case : under Ricardou 's stewardship , a new aesthetic programme seems to have been in operation . |
| 5 | Aethelwald Moll , who became king of Northumbria in 759 , may have been of Deiran royal descent ; his power-base certainly seems to have been in Deira ( see below , p. 150 ) . |
| 6 | They had sacked Peyrat-le-Château and ravaged the surrounding countryside to the east of Limoges , possibly acting in collusion with Viscount Aimar , since it seems to have been in response to this act of aggression that Mercadier struck at Excideuil in February 1184 . |
| 7 | At the beautiful ridge-top site of Phourni , above the Minoan town of Arkhanes , there is an extraordinary Minoan mortuary-complex which seems to have been in use continuously from 2500 to 1250 BC ( Plate 19 ) . |
| 8 | A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms : |
| 9 | After Gundovald 's death Brunhild does seem to have been in communication with his sons . |
| 10 | They 've been in water but the bullet fits tightly in the cartridge case , and they do n't seem to have been in water long enough for much water to have got in to affect the charge . |
| 11 | The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive . |