Example sentences of "[verb] have been [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In fields next to a river , the furrows are noticeably at right angles to the stream , although in some other places , where no obvious drainage benefit was gained , ridge and furrow seem to have been simply a by-product of the normal way of ploughing . |
| 3 | Because it has n't been updated since 1973 some words which seems to have been around a while -palimony , Watergate and glasnost for instance have only just made it . |
| 4 | In fact , Constantine 's attitude towards Christianity seems to have been primarily a matter of expediency , for Christians by then were numerous in the Empire and he needed all the support he could muster against Maxentius , his rival for the imperial throne . |
| 5 | Locks have suffered some deterioration , but this seems to have been mainly a result of idealistic notions of when the canal would be fully operational . |
| 6 | For the elderly , the history of welfare provision seems to have been less a story of steady progress over the centuries than an oscillation between phases of relative generosity and meanness . |
| 7 | The Royal Institution had begun with an abortive attempt to train artisans in elementary science ; mechanics ' institutes provided lectures for what seems to have been chiefly a membership from the lower middle class . |
| 8 | The seduction that had followed had been both a homage and a revenge ; an attempt to control someone who exercised an authority over him that defied analysis . |