Example sentences of "seem have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grief which she had shown over the death of her father seemed to have been replaced by a kind of nervous irritability . |
| 2 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 3 | They seemed to have been lived by a different person . |
| 4 | The researchers said the Japanese growth in wealth seemed to have been accompanied by a narrowing in the difference in incomes between the richest and poorest , whereas in Britain the gap had widened . |
| 5 | The texts seem to have been composed as a result of work in and on language . |
| 6 | The body and the upper stand seem to have been made in a single casting . |
| 7 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 8 | Iraq 's shareholdings in America seem to have been restricted to a machine-tool firm in Ohio and an engineering consultancy in California . |
| 9 | Some seem to have been rebuilt on a larger scale , presumably to cater for a more centralised population ; an example may be Wharram Percy in Yorkshire . |
| 10 | True , some plates seem to have been designed as a reminder , sometimes polite , sometimes far from it , that the volume has strayed from its proper home . |
| 11 | Among a wide circle of friends and correspondents , Cayley seems to have been recognized as a generous and modest man of great personal charm . |
| 12 | While at Messina , en route for the Holy Land , he seems to have been overcome by a sense of the wickedness of his life . |
| 13 | John Thomson was one of a small number of photographers , who seems to have been motivated by a genuine desire to ‘ document ’ . |
| 14 | The potential advantage of early treatment in asymptomatic patients with advanced colorectal cancer seems to have been confirmed by a trial from the Nordic Gastrointestinal Tumor Adjuvant Therapy Group . |
| 15 | The trouble seems to have been based on a report by an Inspector of Schools . |
| 16 | As it turned out , it seems to have been inspired by a desire to bolster government policy rather than to make an objective assessment of the state of trees . |
| 17 | The first full edition seems to have been assembled in a very haphazard fashion , with names added as fast as they could be obtained , out of alphabetical order , and with an unreliable index . |
| 18 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 19 | ‘ Traa de loor ’ , meaning time enough , is a favourite saying on the stress-free island which seems to have been trapped in a time-warp . |
| 20 | A slightly less elaborate statement is much cited in Australia : the applicant must satisfy the court ‘ that the witness is out of the jurisdiction of the court , that his evidence is material and that his attendance within the jurisdiction can not be procured ’ ; it seems to have been derived from a similar observation of Lindley L.J . |
| 21 | Wilmington , also part of the Beaufort lands , seems to have been included as a makeweight . |
| 22 | Wilmington , also part of the Beaufort lands , seems to have been included as a makeweight . |
| 23 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |
| 24 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 25 | The Liberals , although the smallest of the three parties , would seem to be the only party whose programme had not been rejected by the electors ; and , as the only party which could co-operate with either of the other two , it would seem to have been put in a particularly strong position by the result of the election . |