Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This requires careful planning , especially in the allocation of committee rooms for use by committees which are to be broadcast , but , in practice , there appears to have been little difficulty . |
| 2 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 3 | Thus despite the companies ' use of highly toxic chemicals , such as cyanide , there appears to have been little or no state regulation of the environmental impact of mining , until the Navan mines project . |
| 4 | In the more notorious slum districts , there appears to have been little or no respect for the law . |
| 5 | The first attempt to assess cerebral dominance for language in a group of non-right handed patients appears to have been that of Pratt , Warrington and Halliday ( 1971 ) who tested 12 right handers and 12 so-called left handers . |
| 6 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 7 | What then followed appears to have been this : the daughter died childless and her sister , inspired by father 's words , attempted to recover the estate from the heir who had been instituted . |
| 8 | The husbandman 's argument appears to have been this : he could easily determine by the above methods whether the seed-bed was ready for the corn and whether the soil was of the right tilth : but be could not be sure that the soil was warm enough to allow the seed to germinate . |
| 9 | The men , aged 21 and 25 , were each injured in both legs in what appears to have been another loyalist paramilitary attack . |
| 10 | There appears to have been some slackness in staff discipline in that teachers were often late for , or even absent from , lectures . |
| 11 | Even allowing for the restricted staff , there appears to have been some lack of organization of the lecturing programme in Coleman 's later years . |
| 12 | There also appears to have been some confusion over photo credits : the colour photo on page 507 was actually taken by this reviewer , but is one of a number of photos incorrectly credited to another person . |
| 13 | There appears to have been some resistance within the Soviet military to Khrushchev 's doctrine of ‘ minimum deterrence ’ — the USSR , he had complained in 1963 , could not produce ‘ nothing but rockets ’ — and the Cuban missile crisis and later the Vietnam War delayed the signature of further agreements . |
| 14 | There seems to have been much genuine enthusiasm for the renewal of war with France in the early eighteenth century . |
| 15 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 16 | Although John Ellis , a botanical and zoological Fellow , had written to Linnaeus , ‘ Miller 's Dictionary is the chief book that is read by gentlemen who study the art of gardening ’ , there seems to have been little pleasant exchange between them . |
| 17 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 18 | Around the work of pasturing , clearing and ploughing , much of farming seems to have been little different from that of Romano-British society , although the contrast in lordly life styles is at least obvious to the historian . |
| 19 | However , there seems to have been little empirical work done on such courses . |
| 20 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 21 | The immediate reason seems to have been that Indian painters working for some of the Spanish and criollo masters complained of mistreatment . |
| 22 | It was not a lesson , according to Mayhew , that the poor in fact needed to learn , for he finds the same scrupulous cleanliness in the poorest of London tenements , where every object in sight from chairs to children seems to have been that moment newly scrubbed . |
| 23 | The reason for this seems to have been that Victorian British industrialists looked for a quick return , while the Germans were more prepared to take a long view . |
| 24 | The main argument of postmodernists who have sympathies with the political left seems to have been that postmodernism can be supportive of a left politics rooted in principles of pluralism and ‘ difference ’ . |
| 25 | Griffin , however , seems to have been more of a rogue than his dad ever was . |
| 26 | However , in urban areas this was less common and there seems to have been more opportunity for young people to stay in the parental home for longer , because of the greater availability of work in the locality ( Anderson , 1980 , pp. 25–6 ) . |
| 27 | The content of the work seems to have been another source of enjoyment . |
| 28 | Before we do that we must see what we can glimpse of what seems to have been another major achievement of the seventh century , the revival of the art of painting . |
| 29 | There even seems to have been some notion of carrying the plateway along as far as Husbands Bosworth . |
| 30 | In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent . |