Example sentences of "seem to have been [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The result , stretching west from Hedeby , whose semicircular defences also seem to have been renewed at this time , was a rampart over eight miles long , about thirteen yards wide , and nearly ten feet high , not counting the wooden palisade with which it was presumably crowned .
3 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 .
4 When this matter was discussed at housing committee , I believe it 's only last week but it seems a lot longer ago , I spoke at some length about the errors and fallacies in the report arguing against a case that officers have put forward , pointing out mistakes and erroneous conclusions that seem to have been drawn from some very flimsy evidence .
5 No after action reports seem to have been filed for any of these early raids , which is not surprising considering the impromptu nature of their planning and execution .
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