Example sentences of "[vb base] to have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them appear to have been angered and disappointed at the church 's suppression of the proposed scheme . |
| 2 | The documents appear to have been working papers that were used for setting price caps for the authorities . |
| 3 | Recent visits to Greece and/or Turkey appear to have been inspirational , with feta cheese oozing ( figuratively , of course ) from several entries . |
| 4 | Both Britain 's Security Service , MI5 , and the Secret Intelligence Service or MI6 , appear to have been involved . |
| 5 | They appear to have been premature . |
| 6 | The special circumstances of territorial displacement and the withdrawal of adult supervision , which appear to have been more pronounced in Britain than in other parts of western Europe where the family is stronger as a recreational unit , have made the problem worse here than elsewhere ; this has led to the formation of the ‘ ends ’ which in turn has tended to attract a small fascist and psychotic fringe . |
| 7 | If such techniques appear to have been used , the structure should be regarded as suspect , because all reputable Victorian engineers were aware of the risks of making connections by these methods . |
| 8 | Investors appear to have been effectively abandoned by both the fund managers , with whom they entrusted their investments , and also by the trustees whose main role is to safeguard these investments . |
| 9 | Investors appear to have been effectively abandoned by both the fund managers , with whom they entrusted their investments , and also by the trustees whose main role is to safeguard these investments . |
| 10 | Proposals for a worldwide carbon tax and the phasing out of coal-burning generators appear to have been ruled out . |
| 11 | Mr Gandhi 's manoeuvrings — which included four visits to the president , who can dissolve parliament — appear to have been designed to lure supporters from Mr Shekhar and from the previous prime minister , V.P. Singh . |
| 12 | On the contrary , unions appear to have been more effective and even the loss of trade union membership may be a consequence of the inability of the unemployed trade unionists to pay their unions fees rather than due to a loss of sympathy with the unions . |
| 13 | Bradford was ‘ not troubled with them ’ [ fascists ] , ‘ The Movement does not receive much support ’ in Dewsbury , and there appear to have been only a couple of modest meetings in Huddersfield . |
| 14 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 15 | They appear to have been initiated by the head of the Party Chancellery , Martin Bormann , probably under pressure from anti-Christian activists at Gau level , for whom the apparent strengthening of the Church 's hold over the population during the war was a notable provocation . |
| 16 | Perambulations which appear to have been made pursuant to these instructions are extant for the counties of Buckingham , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Oxford , Shropshire , Yorkshire and Wiltshire . |
| 17 | In Rockingham and Whittlewood they appear to have been discontinued after the time of Charles I , and in 1789 the Rt . |
| 18 | SCIENTISTS have launched an investigation into the fate of partridges which appear to have been harmed by the increasing amount of land being set aside by farmers and allowed to lie fallow . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , the trade unions appear to have been weakly organised in the District . |
| 20 | These conclusions appear to have been replicated by York ( 1989 ) , who finds that community workers express more satisfaction and effectiveness in their short-term projects , which are more directive and task-oriented , than in their long-term projects . |
| 21 | Percifull died in nine days in November 1733 and Dr John Martyn 's twins , John and Eulalia , died within a year of their baptism in 1737 , there appear to have been no such tragedies in the Miller family and we may suppose these were their only three children . |
| 22 | To achieve commendably rapid publication the author 's original typescripts appear to have been reproduced with a mix of typography and some English which would have benefited from editorial attention . |
| 23 | In the main the roofs appear to have been thatched . |
| 24 | The level sand plains appear to have been attractive to settlers throughout pre-historic and historic times ( Ritchie , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | Changes in wind appear to have been more important ecologically than changes in temperature or precipitation . |
| 26 | Detailed estimates of the costs of improvement of the ‘ Leicester Line ’ , including wide locks at Foxton and Watford appear to have been made in 1888 , and these indicated a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 27 | Clearly the existence of this sub-committee indicates many other , unminuted , meetings had taken place , and even the architect and contractor already appear to have been briefed , for they were reported to be at work , although the references in the minutes to their activities are unhelpful in pin-pointing what stage they were at . |
| 28 | Of course , there also appear to have been a good number of people who regarded her as an eccentric or a ‘ mope ’ . |
| 29 | Both Lower and Upper Mills appear to have been worked by a single miller , both presumably owned by the Prouts . |
| 30 | His first publication , a humorous but unsophisticated story entitled ‘ How I built myself a house ’ , published in Chambers 's Journal in March 1865 , was originally written for the amusement of colleagues during afternoons which appear to have been all too idle . |