Example sentences of "this [verb] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this seems to have been that Victorian British industrialists looked for a quick return , while the Germans were more prepared to take a long view . |
| 2 | From the cases , this seems to have been common practice in the nineteenth century : see for instance Re Carus-Wilson & Greene ( 1886 ) 18 QBD 7 , where there were two valuers and an umpire to value timber in a land sale . |
| 3 | Occasionally , as in the Kamilari model just mentioned and the two women on the Kalyvia ring , the celebrants are naked , but this seems to have been exceptional . |
| 4 | In some cases this appears to have been due to privileged access to knowledge not yet available to those lower down the hierarchy , as in cases where plans were in preparation for the closure , merging or reorganisation of schools being proposed . |
| 5 | This appears to have been responsible for several stunts and was implicated in the general increase of physical violence against Jews in the East End in the middle 1930s . |