Example sentences of "to have been the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And yet religion seems to have been the only respectable profession open to a woman other than marriage and child-bearing . |
2 | There are certainly cases where this would seem to have been the only possible method of transmission , but the extent of the risk is hard to quantify . |
3 | As Green points out , in sub-Saharan Africa , technical assistance seems to have been the only real growth area in aid over the past half decade . |
4 | ( Beckenham appears to have been the only municipal authority in the London area to have held motor-bus powers . ) |
5 | Whitbread had no formal education and seems to have been the archetypal self-made man . |