Example sentences of "seem [verb] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 2 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The content of the work seems to have been another source of enjoyment . |
| 9 | In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There even seems to have been some notion of carrying the plateway along as far as Husbands Bosworth . |
| 12 | ‘ There seems to have been some personation going on here . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Seems to have been some sort of mix-up . |
| 16 | There would seem to have been little doubt , however , in Mr Justice Lindley 's mind . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Unlike the issue of sterling there would seem to have been little choice in the line of action to be followed . |
| 19 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |
| 20 | Difficulties arise because there does not seem to have been any system of numbering or any attempt to group subjects . |
| 21 | … there does not seem to have been any dispute between the parties [ in Tharsis Sulphur ] . |