Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The count himself appears to have been anxious for an English husband for his daughter , and negotiations opened for her marriage to Edward III 's fourth son , Edmund Langley . |
| 2 | This appears to have been responsible for several stunts and was implicated in the general increase of physical violence against Jews in the East End in the middle 1930s . |
| 3 | The same tenure seems to have been usual for officials in most lawcourts — except for the judges — and in such administrative departments as the Signet Office and the Privy Seal Office . |
| 4 | From 1782 to 1786 the headmaster was William Taylor , who seems to have been responsible for directing Wordsworth 's attention to poetry . |
| 5 | He even seems to have been responsible for Sigismund 's most formal letters , those addressed to the eastern emperor . |
| 6 | It seems to have been unusual for any girl to go beyond straight typesetting to learn much about the other processes at this stage : a crucial point . |