Example sentences of "seem to have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of the four community mental health centres ( CMHCs ) , in particular , seemed to have been successful . |
| 2 | But , generally , Ollie seemed to have been good for him and brought his character out a lot . |
| 3 | It seemed to have been present with her throughout her sleep so promptly had it appeared when she woke . |
| 4 | When I arrived , Montfaucon seemed to have been busy . |
| 5 | He seemed to have been stuck in this shabby , overheated room for days . |
| 6 | Though some of them seem to have been familiar with the writings of some of the others , each worked independently and developed a personal view of the mystical life . |
| 7 | I never seem to have been young , never had the chance . |
| 8 | However , there are different kinds of planners — the Orcadian planners seem to have been unreceptive to public opinion whereas in Shetland they may have been younger and more immature but they listened to complaints . |
| 9 | But given that the authors themselves say that 20 per cent of those over 80 suffer from senile dementia ( p. 297 ) an important group of clients and their carers seem to have been dis-enfranchised . |
| 10 | Local goldsmiths evidently learnt from this , but in general Greek craftsmen and patrons seem to have been content with their own style . |
| 11 | The foundations of the later temples largely obscure the plans of their predecessors but , from the patchy remains that have been investigated , the older temples seem to have been similar in style , scale and layout to the later temples , although they were perhaps slightly less complicated . |
| 12 | The clouds looming over the Lloyd 's market seem to have been silver-lined , having boosted the demand for Sherwood 's systems . |
| 13 | The temple goldsmiths at Mallia seem to have been outstanding . |
| 14 | In 1938 there seem to have been tentative discussions with the Colonial Office over a sell-out to the British government . |
| 15 | All these groups seem to have been nomadic or partly so . |
| 16 | In practice in Europe , the returns seem to have been slight , of a kind which could be met by resident servants ( Smith 1981 ) , and did not include automatic old-age support . |
| 17 | The arguments for the change — contained in a footnote in one of the SSI publications ( DoH , 1991 ) — seem to have been one-sided , covert , and subject to no public debate whatsoever . |
| 18 | At Phaistos , Gournia and Myrtos Pyrgos , these intermediate buildings seem to have been absent : instead , a temple or equivalent large building stood on a hill summit , dominating a town quarter of small houses . |
| 19 | Zuwaya claimed that in the past they had recognized no internal sovereign , and in this matter they seem to have been right . |
| 20 | Here , at least , the policies of special restraint seem to have been effective . |
| 21 | Most of the clergy and the peasants were not subjected to the hazards of battle , and the higher clergy seem to have been good risks for the actuary . |
| 22 | If the Cubists had been surprised by the violent reactions which they had aroused previously , they seem to have been anxious to attract as much attention as possible with this exhibition . |
| 23 | Other women , however , seem to have been anxious to maintain their husbands ' position of economic dominance , even when they were not the chief breadwinners . |
| 24 | A certain George Carpenter was even hanged at Warminster in 1812 for the murder of a farmer called William Webb of Roddenbury Hill — but for the most part the Carpenters , like the Titfords , seem to have been law-abiding , not to say staid , folk . |
| 25 | Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s . |
| 26 | Cnut 's relations with the see of London seem to have been poor , and on the death of Bishop Ælfwig he could well have wished it to be held by one of his own supporters . |
| 27 | Although about two-thirds of students still came from the gentry estate , an increasing proportion of them seem to have been poor . |
| 28 | It has been plausibly argued that this , perhaps too male-centred explanation , begs the question of what led to the increasing mental complexity necessary for hominid evolution in the first place , particularly when the older ancestors seem to have been tropical forest primary consumers . |
| 29 | At least two coaches seem to have been involved in a collision in the Leopoldstadt , near the canal . |
| 30 | But certainly the family and descendants of Judas of Galilee seem to have been involved in many of the more ambitious , more co-ordinated , more professional Zealot enterprises . |