Example sentences of "seems have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among a wide circle of friends and correspondents , Cayley seems to have been recognized as a generous and modest man of great personal charm . |
| 2 | While at Messina , en route for the Holy Land , he seems to have been overcome by a sense of the wickedness of his life . |
| 3 | Chapter 2 I , which seems to have been composed as an afterthought to the main body of the Gospel with its climax in 20:31 , indicates that there was a tradition doing the rounds in Christian circles to the effect that John would not die : he would be there until the Second Coming of Christ . |
| 4 | John Thomson was one of a small number of photographers , who seems to have been motivated by a genuine desire to ‘ document ’ . |
| 5 | The potential advantage of early treatment in asymptomatic patients with advanced colorectal cancer seems to have been confirmed by a trial from the Nordic Gastrointestinal Tumor Adjuvant Therapy Group . |
| 6 | The trouble seems to have been based on a report by an Inspector of Schools . |
| 7 | As it turned out , it seems to have been inspired by a desire to bolster government policy rather than to make an objective assessment of the state of trees . |
| 8 | The first full edition seems to have been assembled in a very haphazard fashion , with names added as fast as they could be obtained , out of alphabetical order , and with an unreliable index . |
| 9 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 10 | ‘ Traa de loor ’ , meaning time enough , is a favourite saying on the stress-free island which seems to have been trapped in a time-warp . |
| 11 | A slightly less elaborate statement is much cited in Australia : the applicant must satisfy the court ‘ that the witness is out of the jurisdiction of the court , that his evidence is material and that his attendance within the jurisdiction can not be procured ’ ; it seems to have been derived from a similar observation of Lindley L.J . |
| 12 | Wilmington , also part of the Beaufort lands , seems to have been included as a makeweight . |
| 13 | Wilmington , also part of the Beaufort lands , seems to have been included as a makeweight . |
| 14 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |