Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An individual will invent endless reasons why the absence of the person who has died is due to some circumstance that can change . |
| 2 | Hope asked the greatest number of questions , 782 , while Tite , who seems to have been anxious to display his professional knowledge as well as counteract Hope 's stylistic bias , was a persistent questioner , with 426 questions . |
| 3 | Colloredo , who seems to have been unpopular from the start , set about modernising the archdiocese in line with the reforms being undertaken by Joseph II ( Holy Roman Emperor and , with his mother , Maria Theresa , co-regent of the Habsburg Empire since the death of his father , Francis Stephen in 1765 ) . |
| 4 | Barnabas Thomas , cousin of Gordon Thomas , who seems to have been resident engineer of the site , explained that the fall was due to the cleavage of the strata and not a general slip of the bench . |
| 5 | From 1782 to 1786 the headmaster was William Taylor , who seems to have been responsible for directing Wordsworth 's attention to poetry . |
| 6 | After a five-minute standing ovation , Rune , who appears to have been asleep throughout , raises a hand to still the multitude . |