Example sentences of "[noun] seem [to-vb] be [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 Sir Hector claimed that the £120,000 loss seemed to have been arrived at by applying the £2.25 HLCA reduction to most of the sheep flock .
2 Both methods seem to have been used at Ife , depending on the metal to be cast .
3 There are criticisms , but in fact the majority of criticisms seem to have been directed at the faults in the administrative procedures , as opposed to problems with the syllabus or assessment procedures .
4 As archbishop , his only quotations from Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law seem to have been taken at second hand from a treatise of his friend Gilbert Crispin ; then too , as on the earlier occasion , his quotations were introduced only to reinforce a conclusion which he had already reached .
5 Benjamin 's case , though , was subtly different : for the most part family emigration seems to have been prompted at least as much by the need or the desire to leave one place as it has been by the yearning to live somewhere else .
6 His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles .
7 The air seemed to have been cleared at last and evening surgery raised their spirits even more .
8 The heaviest copper head from Ife weighs almost 7 kg so the Ife smiths seem to have been working at the limits of this technique .
9 What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility .
10 This polychrome type of design seems to have been invented at Knossos , where it was fashionable for some time before it was adopted generally in the east of Crete .
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