Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
| 2 | His face was so familiar that he seemed to have been with the production for weeks . |
| 3 | In many ways they seemed to have been on the verge of civilisation , as they kept pigs , and cultivated the land for millet . |
| 4 | The said Steve , the Mountie went on , seemed to have been in bed asleep at the time of his murder , and the Ontario police were wanting to interview Angelica Standish as a suspect . |
| 5 | Wheeler did not add that for a man whose chief pleasure in the past seemed to have been in giving other people orders , a falling off of that activity boded ill . |
| 6 | But such links remained tentative and seem to have been of little relevance to policy development even if the symbolism was important . |
| 7 | His family seem to have been of limited means , for his father intended to take him out of school at an early age to become an apprentice . |
| 8 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 9 | In general , these joint muderris/muftiliks seem to have been at the or levels , their holders receiving 50 akce ; but there are instances on the one hand of lower-ranking posts-in about 940/1533–4 , for example , a muderris/mufti of Agras ( Aghrus , also Aghras , now Atabey ) received 30 akce a day , then moved on to become mufti in Ankara ( and probably muderris , although Ata'i does not mention a medrese ) with 40 akce and on the other hand cases , particularly in Amasya , Manisa and Damascus , where the holders received 60 , 80 or even 100 akce a day . |
| 10 | We seem to have been at the end of its reach on this occasion . |
| 11 | Fears that the recovery might be running out of steam now seem to have been over done . |
| 12 | The bloody fools seem to have been under the impression that they had performed rather well . |
| 13 | This angered several readers , who seem to have been under the impression that in publishing it , I condone and support abortion . |
| 14 | Although there is certainly no clear-cut distinction , there seem to have been in recent years two rather separate major usages of this term ( and related terms such as ‘ chief information officer ’ ; , ‘ information system ’ , ‘ information centre ’ , ‘ end user ’ , and so on ) in the literature . |
| 15 | For the next three centuries there was no further trouble within the Province of Britannia , and all the military problems were confined to the northern frontier , except that in the late second century the Brigantes seem to have been in a state of unrest , but the historical reference is far from clear . |
| 16 | They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s . |
| 17 | The origins of this reform of the services for deprived children seem to have been in a child care scandal , the O'Neill case , which led to the setting up of the Curtis Committee to investigate contemporary practice . |
| 18 | If you can be as … affected as you seem to have been by answering journalists ' questions , perhaps I 'd be wiser to wait for publication of results , like everyone else . |
| 19 | Coal miners , too , seem to have been among the groups to have kept ahead of the wartime price surge . |
| 20 | Leeds seems to have been under instructions from their manager Wilko to get the ball up the field as quickly as possible , contrary to the previous two games where the more cultured route paid no dividends . |
| 21 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 22 | During the inter-war years the trend seems to have been towards increasing privatisation of the respectable working class family . |
| 23 | A point worthy of comment is that the settlement grew up mostly in the north-east quadrant of the main road junction ; the western boundary seems to have been along Ryknild Street , since a large cemetery was situated immediately across it . |
| 24 | His first apprehension of such large issues as " problems " seems to have been during his schooldays at Pforta . |
| 25 | Constructionally , I did n't make the tables easy for myself , but the detailing seems to have been worth the extra time spent . |
| 26 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 27 | Henry Newbolt was at this time Hewlett 's neighbour in Wiltshire , and it seems to have been at this Christmas time that Hewlett took Pound to see Newbolt , who figures elsewhere in Canto 80 : |
| 28 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 29 | This in fact seems to have been at least very close to Anselm 's view in all these matters . |
| 30 | It seems to have been at its worst among the women , according to the weekly out-of-work register , in 1934–6 , when 10–15 per cent of the membership was regularly signing on . |