Example sentences of "seems have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only departure from the established procedure lay in the fact that the copy of the order seems to have been served upon or issued to M. 's solicitors by the court rather than being served by the applicant 's solicitor . |
| 2 | The dismissal of the Taskopruzade version of events by Husameddin and Uzuncarsili is perhaps too abrupt , since Karaman seems to have been incorporated into the empire only after the battle of Akcay in 800/1397 , some eight years into Bayezid I 's reign and some four years after Molla Fenari appears to have become kadi . |
| 3 | Investment since 1979 also seems to have been influenced by historic designation as census tracts containing such areas saw more rehabilitation activity . |
| 4 | Joe Satriani is a player who seems to have been influenced by almost every imaginable musical style . |
| 5 | In the Felixstowe Justices case the court seems to have been influenced by the fact that the applicant was a journalist with a serious purpose . |
| 6 | By contrast , in the Rose Theatre case the judge seems to have been influenced to deny standing partly by the fact that the Trust had been formed only for the purpose of campaigning for the preservation of the remains of the theatre ; whereas the same judge in another case accorded standing to challenge a grant of planning permission to a representative of a snake-preservation society which had been active on the site in question for many years and had ‘ put money into it ’ . |
| 7 | The present text , his first novel , strikes me as amusing , irritating , and impressive in about equal degrees , and for all I know it might well have been composed rather than written ; certainly it seems to have been constructed in 64 chapters based on the hexagrams of the I Ching — it is subtitled A Novel of Changes , in case anyone should miss this — with frequent references to Marco Polo 's own writings , in Ronald Latham 's Penguin translation . |
| 8 | But even in relation to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , the principle seems to have been stated too widely . |
| 9 | In despair John Pringle accepted a blackmail deal which , however irksome , seems to have been honoured and left him unmolested afterwards . |
| 10 | But the market seems to have been generating some big increases for certain quite junior City people — notably in foreign exchange and swaps . |
| 11 | In so doing he seems to have been acting in concert with a Roman official called Seronatus . |
| 12 | None is later than about AD 100 , after which the fashion seems to have been supplanted by the taste for a Greek appearance . |
| 13 | Roman interest in Scotland was only slight and patchy at best , and their general view seems to have been expressed in the Severus separation of Britain into superior and inferior provinces . |
| 14 | The result is in line with Roberts , and is consistent with the decision if not the reasoning in Spratt , where the court seems to have been discussing the nature of recklessness , not whether there had to be mens rea as to the occasioning of actual bodily harm . |
| 15 | Rather oddly , in the context of a crisis in which the abolition of the House of Lords was under consideration , it seems to have been assumed that this reservation would present a realistic safeguard against a majority party in the House of Commons seeking to keep its government in power indefinitely rather than face the country . |
| 16 | Derecognition , a word that is new to me and perhaps also to the English language , can be achieved only if the amount of benefit and risk retained by the seller ( not always the originator as seems to have been assumed ) is insignificant or immaterial ( on a case by case basis ) . |
| 17 | It seems to have been assumed throughout the discussions leading up to the signature of the Convention that the use of the postal channel was indeed a mode of service , of notification . |
| 18 | It seems to have been assumed , however , that His Majesty would have acquiesced in a suggestion that he should invite the US to train the Vietnamese army and although the suggestion , like Acheson 's message , was not carried through because of political sensitivity the US was becoming involved in the war one way and another . |
| 19 | I note that in two of the main authorities to which we have been referred on the substantive issues , Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 and In re Findlay [ 1985 ] A.C. 318 , it seems to have been assumed without argument that this court had jurisdiction . |
| 20 | A great deal of the stepping seems to have been improvised but it also contained the remnants of old dances . |
| 21 | And , despite Korda 's avowed belief in ‘ lightness ’ , little effort seems to have been made to mute the pompous misanthropy evident in the company 's two H. G. Wells adaptations . |
| 22 | Another shrewd overseas signing seems to have been made in Rudi Bryson , the South African fast bowler , who can also score quick , useful runs down the order . |
| 23 | The same sort of calculation seems to have been made by the producers of both Brief History and Soul , the recent BBC2 threeparter presented by Anthony Clare . |
| 24 | Despite the massive increase in the volume of research in psychology and ethology , little progress seems to have been made . |
| 25 | It may be noticed also , first , that no actual misrepresentation seems to have been made by Duval to his wife , notwithstanding that he had concealed from her material facts and , second , that the pressure he exerted on her to persuade her to sign does not seem to have been excessively overbearing or to have been accompanied by the threats or false promises or intimidation that are sometimes the hall marks of undue influence . |
| 26 | With the exception of the computer industry , little effort seems to have been made to develop new industries ; instead there has been concentration on making our existing industries more efficient and competitive . |
| 27 | The earliest written version of Lex Salica seems to have been made up of sixty-five titles . |
| 28 | We pass a council estate and a forlorn shop which seems to have been carved into the ground level of the estate . |
| 29 | Among a wide circle of friends and correspondents , Cayley seems to have been recognized as a generous and modest man of great personal charm . |
| 30 | 758 , the trading centre at Ipswich seems to have been expanding and the first attempt to restore a southern coinage was made , predating Offa 's first issues and suggesting an impressive degree of independence on Beonna 's part . |