Example sentences of "seemed to have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother-in-law 's death , seemed to have been a long , lingering and painful end , bravely borne . |
| 2 | There seemed to have been a real shift from the closed systems of resource allocation that tended to exist before devolution , systems where a person , usually the head , made all the decision about capitation . |
| 3 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 4 | The second Lady Deverill , having pulled her horse off Hullabaloo at the last minute , leaving herself just enough time to put him right at the ditch and hedge , did n't even bother to stop and admire her handiwork before riding on up the hill to rejoin the hunt and tell her husband that there seemed to have been a rather fearful accident . |
| 5 | It seemed to have been a place of school and tennis , of clubs and tennis . |
| 6 | She seemed to have been a reasonable kind of mother to Jenny ; at least she had n't stimulated any of the strong resentments which seemed to lie uneasily dormant in most daughters , especially those very fond of their fathers . |