Example sentences of "[vb base] to have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless great advances appear to have been made without such theory … |
| 2 | Detailed estimates of the costs of improvement of the ‘ Leicester Line ’ , including wide locks at Foxton and Watford appear to have been made in 1888 , and these indicated a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 3 | They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students . |
| 4 | Hopes of getting an inquiry appear to have been dashed in 1979 when Britain offered its £100 million and gave the Sri-Lankan government the confidence to sweep aside any objections . |
| 5 | The analyses support the idea that the relocation of farms occurred quite frequently , with a considerable horizon of shifting settlement taking place in the 100 years around AD 700 , for nearly all early Anglo-Saxon settlements appear to have been abandoned during that period . |
| 6 | In the 1695 Election support for the war was the major national issue , but most election contests appear to have been dominated by local rivalries and concerns , and in fact there was relatively little controversial pamphleteering at this time , despite the recent expiry of the Licensing Act . |
| 7 | At a time when nursing and health care is subject to much change , both professionally and politically determined , it is a pity that these elections appear to have been organised with little concern for the democratic process . |
| 8 | The only occasion upon which they appear to have been considered by this court was in Reg. v. McNiff [ 1986 ] Crim.L.R. 57 , in respect of which we have been helpfully provided with a transcript of the judgment . |
| 9 | The argument was advanced that a form of welfare payment should perhaps be made available to those who happen to have been born in national parks ( as opposed to those who chose to move there ) if job and housing opportunities have been restricted by conservationist planning policies . |
| 10 | The British Library is now gradually coming face to face also with another side of the electronic revolution : the question of how to acquire , preserve and make available unpublished research materials which happen to have been produced in electronic form . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Walls seem to have been painted in flat colour washes even earlier . |
| 13 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ He made much worse cuts in the ‘ Scenes aux champs ’ of Berlioz 's Symphonie fantastique and in the last movement of Martinů 's Sixth Symphony , though these seem to have been made in live performances only . ’ |
| 17 | Most of the Roman towns and cities created seem to have been developed from earlier forts ; in origin their sites represent strategic and tactical decisions taken by Roman military commanders . |
| 18 | His ideas on sovereignty and social organization seem to have been influenced by sociological positivism and by Duguit in particular . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They might also have mentioned the hatters who seem to have been organised by 1700 and who had by 1777 a " congress " which made by-laws , extracted fines and sought to limit the number of apprentices masters could take . |
| 21 | There are few examples outside Kent and none of those found in the upper Thames valley seem to have been buried as complete sets . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In practice some rifts seem to be of the active type whereas others seem to have been initiated by passive rifting , although in many cases there is no consensus as to whether specific rifts are active or passive . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But since all large commercially-made cylinders seem to have been copied from standard ones , there was no increase in quality , only in volume . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Between these triangles lie the four arms of the saltire , all of which seem to have been divided into three zones : two lozenges enclosing pentagonal devices with two heart-shaped petals , and a pentagonal area which contains a pelta-urn . |
| 30 | Of course , technological developments are not unambiguous and it is crucial that the Archive does not run too quickly with new developments which subsequently prove to have been misguided in some respects . |