Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 2 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 3 | There does not appear to have been any significant progress on this in the intervening twenty-four years . |
| 4 | There does not appear to have been any significant pressure from voluntary organizations or the public . |
| 5 | At the same time , you can see the domestic holidays the pattern 's less clear , but certainly there does n't appear to have been any growth . |
| 6 | There do not appear to have been any empirical studies which have looked for an increase in the amount of information reflected in share prices as a result of the commencement of trading in index futures ( except in so far as volatility reflects information ; see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 7 | There do not appear to have been any children ( none are mentioned in his will ) . |
| 8 | In the Fuqua case there does not appear to have been any problem of divisional interdependence , but this will not always be the case . |
| 9 | They were a primitive and tribal people , and do not seem to have been such fierce opponents as the Saxons . |
| 10 | There would seem to have been little doubt , however , in Mr Justice Lindley 's mind . |
| 11 | But even where there may seem to have been little affection shown and where few apparent links remain , emotional ties that go back to earliest days are strong , and feelings about the death of a parent are bound to go deep . |
| 12 | Unlike the issue of sterling there would seem to have been little choice in the line of action to be followed . |
| 13 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |
| 14 | There therefore does n't seem to have been much of a change , and furthermore Smith ( 1983 ) in his text specifically entitled Recreation Geography has also followed this model , albeit in the modified form of the relationship between ‘ travel/resources ’ which he calls the two main branches of the tree of recreation geography . |
| 15 | The practical services rendered by each side to the other do not seem to have been all that large although there is still considerable speculation about the volume of weapons with which the Vietminh were supplied . |
| 16 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 17 | Difficulties arise because there does not seem to have been any system of numbering or any attempt to group subjects . |
| 18 | The news about the lady 's quiverful of kiddies does not seem to have been any more than a very temporary dose of saltpetre , and it 's worn off . |
| 19 | … there does not seem to have been any dispute between the parties [ in Tharsis Sulphur ] . |
| 20 | But there do n't seem to have been any serious consequences from the BBC spoof . |
| 21 | This , plus tax demands and a steady loss of communal land to corrupt mandarins and village notables , would seem to have been enough to produce this peasant revolt in whose heartland both Phan Boi Chau and Ho Chi Minh had been born . |