Example sentences of "seem to have [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first people to have appreciated and replicated patinas seem to have been the Chinese . |
| 2 | Such times are unusual , yet they do occur ; with hindsight , they often seem to have been the result of the right combination of people , time and place . |
| 3 | Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres . |
| 4 | Only Jean de Grilly ( seneschal 1266–8 ) and Thomas de Ippegrave , clerk of Edward 's household ( 1268–9 ) , seem to have been the results of Edward 's own personal choice . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The men behind this ordinance seem to have been the greater merchants , who hoped to control the trade more strictly in their own interests , but the new system was never wholly enforced . |
| 7 | On this occasion the Hansards seem to have been the main beneficiaries from the decline in the activity of other alien merchants , but they too could be affected by political rivalry , and periods of tension between England and the Hanse towns , even if this fell short of war , were marked by substantial falls in cloth exports by the Hanse merchants . |
| 8 | The fruit-eating primates of Africa seem to have been the origin of the human stock , one way or another , whether the immediate ancestors were derived from an Asiatic ‘ Homo erectus ’ or not . |