Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [adv] [adj] with " in BNC.
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1 | In families that did not indulge themselves in this way a healthier climate prevailed ; children do not seem to have been unduly obsessed with death . |
2 | ‘ You seem to have been pretty thick with Dickinson , ’ Blunt said . |
3 | I believe the Druid sacred groves to have been functionally identical with , and a direct continuity of , ley mark-clumps . |
4 | John Mark was not an apostle , yet he seems to have been closely involved with three of the principal characters of the early Church : |
5 | His return to Scotland late in 1555 was reluctant , and seems to have been less concerned with the Protestant cause than a personal one ; in Edinburgh he could be reunited with Elizabeth Bowes and her daughter Marjory , whom he had met while a preacher at Berwick , and marry Marjory . |
6 | ( Peter Jenkins ( 1976 ) , who visited both Washoe and Lucy in 1973 , reports that Fouts was cautious about Lucy 's abilities at this time and Jenkins himself seems to have been more impressed with Washoe . ) |
7 | But there were other motives , of fashion and adventure and the hope of promotion , which are likely to have been more powerful with many recruits . |
8 | Dana claimed that he expanded his diary into the narrative Two Years Before the Mast ( the significant subtitle is ‘ An authentic narrative of a sailor 's Life at Sea ’ ) in order to represent the seaman 's view ignored in other sea-stories , but as a young undergraduate , sent to sea for his health , he presented a life of hardship and monotony from an educated point of view and seems in any case to have been more concerned with exact recording of weather , cargoes and seaman 's techniques than with personal behaviour and attitudes . |
9 | However , the republican movement of the 1870s seems to have been more concerned with the failures of Victoria , rather than with the peccadilloes of her son ( Roby , 1975 ) . |
10 | This idea has been applied to the African Plate which , according to some analyses of plate motions , appears to have been almost stationary with respect to the underlying asthenosphere for the past 25–35 Ma . |