Example sentences of "seems [verb] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The content of the work seems to have been another source of enjoyment . |
| 8 | In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There even seems to have been some notion of carrying the plateway along as far as Husbands Bosworth . |
| 11 | ‘ There seems to have been some personation going on here . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Seems to have been some sort of mix-up . |