Example sentences of "to have been anxious [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most other respects he seems to have been anxious to preserve the status quo , and there was relatively little reshuffling of office . |
| 2 | In most other respects he seems to have been anxious to preserve the status quo , and there was relatively little reshuffling of office . |
| 3 | Hope asked the greatest number of questions , 782 , while Tite , who seems to have been anxious to display his professional knowledge as well as counteract Hope 's stylistic bias , was a persistent questioner , with 426 questions . |
| 4 | Other women , however , seem to have been anxious to maintain their husbands ' position of economic dominance , even when they were not the chief breadwinners . |
| 5 | In the early 790s Charlemagne is thought to have been anxious to secure Anglo-Saxon support against iconoclasm at the council of Frankfurt in 794 . |
| 6 | In the early days of independence , TANU and the Government appear to have been anxious to lower the political temperature , following the excitement of the previous three years . |
| 7 | If the Cubists had been surprised by the violent reactions which they had aroused previously , they seem to have been anxious to attract as much attention as possible with this exhibition . |