Example sentences of "seem to have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A multitude of household effects , iron bars , timbers , glass , bricks , a chimney stack , seemed to have been shaken by some giant hand and strewn any which way . |
| 2 | The air seemed to have been cleared at last and evening surgery raised their spirits even more . |
| 3 | Most of the attacks were near main roads , and the original police hypothesis was that a single madman or religious fanatic was motoring from one enclosed pasture to another ; then several horses seemed to have been assaulted in different places at the same time , although this is not certain . |
| 4 | Despite his chosen role as a small-town shopkeeper he seemed to have been accepted on equal terms by talented cosmopolitans … |
| 5 | I found that my grasp on the image itself was now hazy , the very mechanisms of my mind seemed to have been injected with lobal anaesthetic , blown up into a fuzzy ineptitude . |
| 6 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 7 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 8 | Dorigo had a great game , I thought , but all too often seemed to have been left in sole command of the entire left side of the pitch — every time he went forward alone , large gaps appeared behind him , and the gaps were frequently filled by the ball and Sunderland players . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Walls seem to have been painted in flat colour washes even earlier . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His ideas on sovereignty and social organization seem to have been influenced by sociological positivism and by Duguit in particular . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There are few examples outside Kent and none of those found in the upper Thames valley seem to have been buried as complete sets . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But since all large commercially-made cylinders seem to have been copied from standard ones , there was no increase in quality , only in volume . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Investment since 1979 also seems to have been influenced by historic designation as census tracts containing such areas saw more rehabilitation activity . |
| 29 | The present text , his first novel , strikes me as amusing , irritating , and impressive in about equal degrees , and for all I know it might well have been composed rather than written ; certainly it seems to have been constructed in 64 chapters based on the hexagrams of the I Ching — it is subtitled A Novel of Changes , in case anyone should miss this — with frequent references to Marco Polo 's own writings , in Ronald Latham 's Penguin translation . |
| 30 | The term ‘ carrier ’ seems to have been coined in Anglo-American legal discourse largely to aid in the assessment of liability for damage to cargo . |