Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] been [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , there also appear to have been a good number of people who regarded her as an eccentric or a ‘ mope ’ .
2 Within the post-war period , the two most enduring changes appear to have been a marked transfer from rough pasture to either woodland or farmland , and Parry et al .
3 I happen to have been a keen supporter of the way of Margaret Thatcher 's attitude to Europe , highly sceptical .
4 If one takes the views of the architects explicitly asked this question in the AMERG survey then the reforms seem to have been a mixed blessing ( 42 per cent thinking them to be beneficial and 29 per cent not to be ) .
5 ‘ Your interviews seem to have been a great success , ’ said Melissa casually as she helped herself to cheese .
6 Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man .
7 Where lands were lost by churches , as in Aquitaine , the main beneficiaries seem to have been the local aristocracy — who traditionally cast greedy eyes on ecclesiastical wealth .
8 They seem to have been an unscrupulous family , willing to exploit their closeness to the crown .
9 They seem to have been an unscrupulous family , willing to exploit their closeness to the crown .
10 A knowledge of the context in which acts of sabotage occur — the lack of alternatives available to workers , the frustrations that build up over time — often shows sabotage to have been an understandable response .
11 Our radical objector maintains about what we take to have been the causal circumstance that it might riot have been followed by the smell , and moreover that this would not have resulted from the absence of some further condition .
12 He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell .
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