Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A different form of core appears to have existed from the third century at Godmanchester , after the creation of the open marketplace and the construction of the official ‘ Basilica ’ building adjacent to the mansio compound . |
| 2 | What appears to have happened in the last week of the campaign is that a large proportion of the ‘ Do n't Knows ’ plumped for the Conservatives , possibly in fear of rumoured Labour tax rises . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the overall impression in all the islands is of coastline submergence ; a process that appears to have occurred over the last 8,000 years or so with the amount of sea level rise being estimated as approximately 5 m . |
| 4 | However , the acceleration in the rate of decline which appears to have occurred in the second half of the 1960s has been lessened by the payment of investment grants . ’ |
| 5 | In the medieval period these were seen as the custodians of an orthodoxy which was felt to be , if only potentially , challenged by self-authenticating mystical writings — a custodial role which seems to have lingered into the twentieth century . |
| 6 | ‘ It was their story , everything in it seems to have led to the next thing — now it should have a stop ! |
| 7 | The primary legend of Atlantis seems to have started in the fourth century BC , when Plato wrote that Solon , who had lived a century or so earlier , had visited Egypt and there had been told by a priest that , once upon a time , there had existed a continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules ( that is , the Strait of Gibraltar ) . |
| 8 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 9 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 10 | it seems to have changed over the last few years |
| 11 | A fall in urban rent values can also be seen in Oxford , although the evidence cited is less comprehensive than that for York , and the most drastic fall seems to have come in the second half of the fifteenth century after a period of relative stability . |
| 12 | FORMER Armagh captain Jimmy Smyth has a two-fold ambition which he hopes to see fulfilled within the next ten days . |