Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] been [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 2 | Nor does there seem to have been any wholesale burning of books and manuscripts . |
| 3 | The earliest deposits of Eurodollars seem to have been those in the Moscow Narodny Bank in London and that of another USSR owned bank in Paris . |
| 4 | There seems to have been much genuine enthusiasm for the renewal of war with France in the early eighteenth century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although John Ellis , a botanical and zoological Fellow , had written to Linnaeus , ‘ Miller 's Dictionary is the chief book that is read by gentlemen who study the art of gardening ’ , there seems to have been little pleasant exchange between them . |
| 7 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 8 | Around the work of pasturing , clearing and ploughing , much of farming seems to have been little different from that of Romano-British society , although the contrast in lordly life styles is at least obvious to the historian . |
| 9 | However , there seems to have been little empirical work done on such courses . |
| 10 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 11 | The immediate reason seems to have been that Indian painters working for some of the Spanish and criollo masters complained of mistreatment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The reason for this seems to have been that Victorian British industrialists looked for a quick return , while the Germans were more prepared to take a long view . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Griffin , however , seems to have been more of a rogue than his dad ever was . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The content of the work seems to have been another source of enjoyment . |
| 18 | Before we do that we must see what we can glimpse of what seems to have been another major achievement of the seventh century , the revival of the art of painting . |
| 19 | There even seems to have been some notion of carrying the plateway along as far as Husbands Bosworth . |
| 20 | In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In this context there seems to have been some unexplained change of thinking on the part of the Inspectorate because the eight areas of experience ( in Curriculum 11–16 ) were seen as a way of considering a common curriculum , presumably satisfying all aspects of the curriculum including ‘ education and society ’ and ‘ working life ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Seems to have been some sort of mix-up . |
| 26 | ‘ There seems to have been some personation going on here . |
| 27 | It seems to have been this last line which caused the editors of the Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound to provide one of the few pieces of misinformation in that admirable work . |
| 28 | They were a primitive and tribal people , and do not seem to have been such fierce opponents as the Saxons . |
| 29 | There would seem to have been little doubt , however , in Mr Justice Lindley 's mind . |
| 30 | 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 . |