Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Fuqua case there does not appear to have been any problem of divisional interdependence , but this will not always be the case . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There do not appear to have been any children ( none are mentioned in his will ) . |
| 4 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 5 | Over the last twenty years or so , one of the things that 's slipped has been those kind of things and I believe and Peter may disagree with me , but a lot of the have been because of the commercial fact that the thing that is now driving the newspapers more than anything else is , is the advertising and advertising revenues and that drives the style of newspapers and stories that are written . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even allowing for the restricted staff , there appears to have been some lack of organization of the lecturing programme in Coleman 's later years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There appears to have been some slackness in staff discipline in that teachers were often late for , or even absent from , lectures . |
| 12 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The content of the work seems to have been another source of enjoyment . |
| 19 | In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent . |
| 20 | Here he encountered Charles I 's young daughter Elizabeth [ q.v. ] , to whom he seems to have been some kind of chaplain and with whose virtues he was much taken . |
| 21 | There even seems to have been some notion of carrying the plateway along as far as Husbands Bosworth . |
| 22 | ‘ There seems to have been some personation going on here . |
| 23 | There seems to have been some obfuscation , perhaps deliberate , in the translation of the original Coptic text , but what Jesus appears to say is : ‘ Greetings , my venerable guardian Peter . |
| 24 | The Group retains a strong concern with the traditional macro-economic issues of fiscal and monetary policy , inflation , the exchange rates for sterling , UK trade policy and aggregate employment which its UK model was first designed to elucidate and which are still in certain respects important subjects of controversy at the analytic level ( although there seems to have been some convergence of short-term and even medium-term conditional predictions ) . |
| 25 | Seems to have been some sort of mix-up . |
| 26 | The above were all covered by the Corporation Superannuation Scheme , but there are believed to have been more motormen and conductors who had not been long enough with the Corporation to qualify . |
| 27 | Military police have foiled what 's believed to have been another attempt to attack and mutilate horses . |
| 28 | Navjuvanov was dismissed , accused of corruption , and it appeared to have been this event which sparked off the rallies outside the parliament building in Shahidan ( " Martyrs ' " ) Square . |
| 29 | There would seem to have been little doubt , however , in Mr Justice Lindley 's mind . |
| 30 | 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 . |