Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , they appear to have been largely supportive . |
| 2 | Understandably , welfare measures which gave benefits dissociated from any inspection or apparent evaluation of working-class character and habits appear to have been most popular . |
| 3 | The cuts in services appear to have been most severe in Wales , the South West and parts of the Midlands . |
| 4 | Historically , people appear to have been more philosophical about inability to conceive and bear a child , and most childless people did not question themselves about it , unless they felt it was a kind of punishment . |
| 5 | On the contrary , unions appear to have been more effective and even the loss of trade union membership may be a consequence of the inability of the unemployed trade unionists to pay their unions fees rather than due to a loss of sympathy with the unions . |
| 6 | Changes in wind appear to have been more important ecologically than changes in temperature or precipitation . |
| 7 | Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success . |
| 8 | The environmental impact of the Braer oil tanker disaster in January appear to have been relatively mild , according to an interim report from the Scottish Office . |
| 9 | So far , however , these provisions appear to have been relatively minor , with the exception of some composite insurance companies offering mortgage indemnity guarantees . |
| 10 | Death was the result of sepsis , bowel infarction , and renal failure none of which appear to have been readily preventable in retrospect . |
| 11 | The differences between the painters appear to have been purely personal , but Delaunay had also moved away from the other Cubists in his works of 1912 , and , using his Cubist researches as a point of departure , was developing a much more purely abstract kind of painting with colour as its principal element . |
| 12 | Both the Ras and his wife appear to have been very anxious and nervous about the child , and I feel that it would be impossible for me to refuse without risking his friendship which will be of the utmost importance to us in the future . |
| 13 | After Cicero 's De Oratore , there appear to have been very few analyses of the language of humour , comedy and joking , until the twentieth century : at least , judging from Milner 's ( 1972 ) account , cited in Delia Chiaro 's bibliography . |
| 14 | More generally , political influences appear to have been especially important by way of a facilitating role of socialist ideology in broadening the structural form of unions away from concern with narrow and particularistic special interests . |
| 15 | Anselm was made to appear to have been too rigid in his interpretation of the decree of 1099 . |
| 16 | It does not appear in Heath 's brief memorandum of de Lattre 's meeting with Truman but de Lattre subsequently claimed to have been very reassured by the President 's statement : ‘ We would not let Indo-China fall into enemy hands . ’ |
| 17 | It appears that costs are awarded on the indemnity basis only in exceptional cases , for example ‘ major test cases ’ and ‘ cases in which the paying party 's conduct is considered to have been wholly unmeritorious , oppressive or in contempt of court ’ and the court must expressly direct that costs be awarded on such a basis . |
| 18 | Those popes who are generally considered to have been most influential and powerful had decidedly legal aims : their political theory was developed within the law . |
| 19 | Deng was reported to have been particularly incensed by an attack on the country 's five special economic zones ( SEZs ) , widely regarded as showcases for the reformist line . |
| 20 | Civilians and members of security and paramilitary forces are also reported to have been physically ill-treated after being captured or detained . |
| 21 | Widows are given an allowance because they are deemed to have been financially dependent . |
| 22 | A key television debate was held on Sept. 3 between Mitterrand ( who was generally deemed to have been more successful ) and Séguin . |
| 23 | the record of some of the institutional innovations which pluralists have suggested and which were created in the 1970s , do not appear to have been as successful in reducing military expenditure as pluralists have assumed they would . |
| 24 | Connected to the pool is a large anteroom with a sophisticated architectural design and the elaborate bath-house would appear to have been too large for the modest size of ‘ house ’ . |
| 25 | Loch 's reputation in Shropshire does not appear to have been so contentious as it was in Scotland , and the landscape he created in the Wealdmoors is now level ploughland of peat interspersed with rectangular plantations of poplar . |
| 26 | The JSP campaign was generally felt to have been less effective than that which it had fought in 1989 . |
| 27 | The responses to the work seemed to have been very positive and indeed could only be gauged by revisiting the hospital . |
| 28 | Tom Gower from Southport , though , seemed to have been as anxious for reassurance as he was to express solidarity . |
| 29 | As such Reports go , therefore , Younger can be said to have been fairly effective , in spite of being limited by being unable to consider public sector threats to privacy . |
| 30 | Neither can the student unrest in Germany be said to have been as serious as it was in France . |