Example sentences of "seems to have [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Felixstowe Justices case the court seems to have been influenced by the fact that the applicant was a journalist with a serious purpose . |
| 2 | None is later than about AD 100 , after which the fashion seems to have been supplanted by the taste for a Greek appearance . |
| 3 | The same sort of calculation seems to have been made by the producers of both Brief History and Soul , the recent BBC2 threeparter presented by Anthony Clare . |
| 4 | While at Messina , en route for the Holy Land , he seems to have been overcome by a sense of the wickedness of his life . |
| 5 | On a range of issues from river pollution to waste incineration at sea , from airport expansion to noxious exhaust emissions , the opposition seems to have been led by the non-British north-west Europeans , with the Germans to the fore . |
| 6 | For that matter little seems to have been gained by the translation of gâteau petit duc into Little Duke Cake and crêpes normandes into French pancakes Normande . |
| 7 | However , it now seems to have been accepted by the RICS that the overseas experience of limited liability , together with that of UK land surveyors , livestock auctioneers and other companies , indicates that in practice the ethical problem may be overstated . |
| 8 | It seems to have been completed by the start of July . |
| 9 | John Thomson was one of a small number of photographers , who seems to have been motivated by a genuine desire to ‘ document ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When Cnut 's henchman Tofi the Proud made a grant to Waltham an oral declaration seems to have been followed by the donor girding his sword round the image on a crucifix . |
| 12 | Although the main emphasis in Jewish eschatology has always been on the fate of the nation , the doctrine of personal immortality ( which originated with Zarathustra 's passionate belief in the justice of God ) seems to have been adopted by the Jews during or after their Babylonian exile . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His choice of the army seems to have been inspired by the anecdotes of a nonagenarian great uncle who had been a veteran of the Grand Army . |
| 15 | The brick wall faced by virtually all suppliers attempting to win modernisation contracts for city telephone exchanges in the larger cities of the Russian Federation seems to have been breached by the Slovenian firm IskraTEL . |
| 16 | In fact , in the early Merovingian period it seems to have been held by the rulers of the eastern kingdom , but after Sigibert I 's murder in 575 half of it was handed over to Guntram , presumably to cement an alliance between the young Childebert II and his uncle . |
| 17 | The idea of a coronation was allowed to drop — probably to the relief of both parties , since the pope 's unwillingness to perform seems to have been equalled by the Emperor 's reluctance to participate . |
| 18 | Thank you Chairman , erm I 'm delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups . |