Example sentences of "seem to [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Representing a more traditional form of British cinema , John Schlesinger 's Madame Sousatzka ( Virgin ) has a stand-out performance by Shirley MacLaine and a keen eye for varied London locations , while A Time Of Destiny ( Vestron ) is a baroque romantic melodrama from Gregory Nava ( El Norte ) , which despite the miscasting of William Hurt as a Basque immigrant 's son seemed to me to have been unfairly downgraded . |
| 2 | Her smile seemed to him to have been almost aloof , perhaps even disapproving . |
| 3 | It suddenly seemed to him to have been lull of long damp nights sleeping under the stars , desperate fights with trolls , city guards , countless bandits and evil priests and , on at least three occasions , actual demigods — and for what ? |
| 4 | Well yes it is certainly fascinating to hear the views of , of members an and indeed it , it 's tempting to go on I think about or personal experience of floods , but this is not the time or the place I would suggest to do that erm strategic planning seems to me has been the venue for discussions with Southern Water Authority with the National Rivers Authority itself , we are the committee that tries to look many , many years ahead . |
| 5 | The golden period of manufacture seems to me to have been in the late 1950s and early 1960s when both manufacturers were making superbly engineered , fully adjustable machines . |
| 6 | The author of that book seems to me to have been a very sick man indeed . ’ |
| 7 | In one respect the change seems to me to have been for the worse . |
| 8 | There seems to me to have been a growing wish to find this ‘ philosopher 's stone ’ , a universal system which can be applied to everything , everywhere . |
| 9 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 10 | This conclusion should not be affected by any view we take about whether the use of memory constitutes a re-examination of the original sensation or a mere inspection of how that sensation now seems to us to have been . |
| 11 | Of recent British policy , Dulles privately remarked on 6 May 1957 : " It seems to us to have been characteristic of a nation which , realizing that it was weak , felt it had to act as though it was strong " . |
| 12 | He was suspicious of all educational innovations that did not seem to him to have been carefully thought through , and he was critical , too , of the report of the committee on higher education ( 1961–4 ) chaired by Baron Robbins [ q.v. ] and of large-scale university expansion . |
| 13 | Erm but what we would say at this stage , is that there does n't seem any rationale behind the discounts that have been applied by by the County Council , indeed we have a situation in Hambleton district , where there is a seventy percent discount , erm which does n't seem to us to have been explained or justified . |