Example sentences of "seem to have be a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If one takes the views of the architects explicitly asked this question in the AMERG survey then the reforms seem to have been a mixed blessing ( 42 per cent thinking them to be beneficial and 29 per cent not to be ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Your interviews seem to have been a great success , ’ said Melissa casually as she helped herself to cheese . |
| 5 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 6 | ‘ From information received this seems to have been a stupid prank , ’ said a Britannia spokeswoman . |
| 7 | From that time onward the flow of migrants from the West Indies to Britain has declined steadily : recently there seems to have been a net outflow . |
| 8 | For all these reasons multi-employer bargaining came to predominate in non-manufacturing industries and , more exceptionally , elsewhere in the concentrated industries of basic steel and the railways where government intervention seems to have been a decisive factor in shaping the bargaining process ( Livernash , 1963 ) . |
| 9 | That seems to have been a good move on their part . |
| 10 | Indeed , your latest victim seems to have been a veritable bundle of surprises — not a maidservant but a duchess , not dead but alive — and , to top all , affianced to an eleven-year-old and not a virgin ! ’ |
| 11 | He seems to have been a great romancer . |
| 12 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 13 | Appointed a Privy Counsellor two years ago , his promotion seems to have been a long time coming , prompting some commentators to dub him ‘ The Nearly Man ’ . |
| 14 | Edward Ellice , an MP for Coventry , said that he had been asked to accompany his friend Lord Elcho , and although he seems to have been a political ally of Elcho 's his view of Scott 's design was very different . |
| 15 | Individual union policy seems to have been a major factor behind signing technology agreements , most of which derive from four white collar unions : APEX ( general clerical union ) , ASTMS ( general technical and supervisory union ) , NALGO ( local government staff ) and TASS ( technical staff in engineering ) . |
| 16 | This seems to have been a major attempt on the part of Oswiu , by associating himself with Ecgberht 's archbishop-elect and by a recognition of the authority of Canterbury , to establish a new beginning for the Anglo-Saxon Church . |
| 17 | As we shall see in chapter 27 , in recent years there seems to have been a greater willingness in the Western liberal democracies to take action outside the normal channels of group and party politics . |
| 18 | We decided to schedule an hour and a half each week for work on the additional assessment , and this seems to have been a successful approach . |
| 19 | He seems to have been a difficult patient . |
| 20 | The main factor causing this redistribution seems to have been a massive increase in non-serious wounding . |
| 21 | There seems to have been a subsequent change of emphasis as evidenced by Minister of State Angela Rumbold 's speech at the Industrial Society in December 1989 . |
| 22 | In the event , one feels , recognition of Ho Chi Minh 's alternative government by the communist bloc was an additional argument for the US to recognize Bao Dai ; but it hardly seems to have been a sufficient cause . |
| 23 | He seems to have been a solitary child , happiest in his own company . |
| 24 | And it seems to have been a monumental over-reaction by the British Olympic Association , to send the pair home in a pantomime of sealed letters and secret flights under assumed names . |
| 25 | This seems to have been a particular problem in the more remote areas , whether in Devon or in the Scottish Highlands ( Varwell 1973 ; Cloke 1979 ) . |
| 26 | Archery seems to have been a minor technique , for men armed with swords and spears and carrying only twelve arrows could hardly be termed ‘ archers ’ in the later medieval sense of a specialised separate force of skilled bowmen used as a collective weapon in their right . |
| 27 | It seems to have been a happy marriage and Ximena bore Rodrigo two daughters . |
| 28 | She seems to have been a stern mother ( she was always a deeply reserved woman ) who mellowed when she became a grandmother . |
| 29 | One aspect of the changing nature of local government since the early 1970s seems to be that various local government agencies have taken on this role in one way or another , to the extent that there seems to have been a marked change in relations between those agencies and business interests at local level . |
| 30 | Well , he seems to have been a bad lot , and maybe nobody will miss him , but I do n't like it . |