Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of the London equity market accounted for by private shareholders appears to have stabilised in the past two years at about 18 per cent . |
| 2 | This selectivity in the migration process appears to have intensified in the 1980s . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Something like this appears to have occurred in the great Near Eastern empires in the post-Neolithic period ; and it certainly occurred in Inca Peru . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , contrary to the impression of steady acceleration conveyed by the decennial Census statistics , the urban-rural shift in population seems to have peaked in the early 1970s . |
| 7 | But from the very fact that a religious authority who was comparable with the Pope , and for whose position no precedent seems to have existed in the Ottoman state except , perhaps , in its earliest , almost legendary days , appears on the scene relatively suddenly in the time of Murad II , it seems possible to deduce at least part of the reason for the foundation of the institution . |
| 8 | The party may claim to be in the vanguard of history , but its clock seems to have stopped in the 1950s . |
| 9 | Knighthood was not yet a status sought after by the middling and lesser nobility of the south-west , and the rise of new men as milites only seems to have begun in the mid thirteenth century . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Spectacular rises in corn prices encouraged landlords to evict in order to farm themselves , a process which led to the creation of despoblados ; middling tenants refused to sublet and a wave of rent rises seems to have started in the 1760's . |
| 12 | Interestingly , something similar seems to have occurred in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin . |
| 13 | But that is nothing compared to the inflation that seems to have occurred in the early universe : an increase in size by a factor of at least a million million million million million times in a tiny fraction of a second . |
| 14 | I think there must be another box of these and they 've sort of got in and that seems to have got in the wrong box . |
| 15 | This is what seems to have happened in the late Victorian music hall , when a style evoking a particular class subject — the ‘ remade ’ working class described by the historian Gareth Stedman Jones ( 1974 ) — is crossed with political elements — the ideology of imperialism — resulting in a relatively unified mode of ‘ popular imperialism ’ within this song category . |
| 16 | Sometimes , as in England , country girls became more literate than country boys — this seems to have happened in the 1850s . |
| 17 | It seems to have originated in the personal computer segment about the time Compaq proved it could supply 286 machines that were comparable to IBM 's … and do so in a more timely fashion . |
| 18 | Little seems to have changed in the intervening years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The number of institutions in London which can reasonably be considered private banks seems to have doubled in the fifty years between 1725 and 1775 to reach fifty-two . |
| 21 | One crop that seems to have flourished in the late eighteenth-century Weald was hops ; the rapid expansion of the Georgian population produced an urgent demand for more beer , not only to escape the worst features of contemporary living but as a very basic foodstuff for the poor . |
| 22 | Do n't believe everything he says , mind , but he claims to have lived in the same house all his life . |