Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [been] a " in BNC.

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1 Of course , there also appear to have been a good number of people who regarded her as an eccentric or a ‘ mope ’ .
2 Within the post-war period , the two most enduring changes appear to have been a marked transfer from rough pasture to either woodland or farmland , and Parry et al .
3 I happen to have been a keen supporter of the way of Margaret Thatcher 's attitude to Europe , highly sceptical .
4 Trading forecasts On this there does not , at least , seem to have been a great internal dispute .
5 There seem to have been a lot of people who took up painting for a while and then dropped it : often enough , like the young Roger Vadim , to become a cineaste or a designer in the lively world of small theatres ( which are also extensively documented in the Pavillon des Arts . )
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
8 ‘ Symptom substitution ’ was notable for its absence , and the ‘ underlying psychological problems ’ seem to have been a result rather than a cause .
9 From their shapes , these marks seem to have been a form of writing .
10 And , as we noted , the movement of which Jesus and his followers seem to have been a part regarded the Maccabean regime as a prototype for their own aspirations .
11 By this period he was seriously addicted to the tranquillizer , nembutal , and there seem to have been a number of objects to which he attached his fears — lifts and large animals among them .
12 Even then , there were land development issues associated with local state support for the new system of owner-occupation but , in comparison with developments after 1975 , the 1930s seem to have been a period during which previous social forms were suspended rather than transformed .
13 Comfrey is one of the herbs that seem to have been a remedy for all ills , and one that the mediaeval and Elizabethan physicians and herbalists would never be without .
14 Reliefs or statues on Attic graves in this period seem to have been a fashion among the rich aristocracy , especially for those who died young .
15 ‘ Your interviews seem to have been a great success , ’ said Melissa casually as she helped herself to cheese .
16 ‘ I seem to have been a shock to a number of people .
17 The bombardment destroyed our first system , of course , and there seem to have been a lot of gas shells landing amongst our gunners — those that were n't killed — and they say the Hun did a lot of damage with his trench mortars and those awful Minenwerfers .
18 I suppose in the nineteen fifties we all thought that was the answer to energy production , but there seem to have been a lot of problems over these since then .
19 SEEKING information on Peter Roberts , who I believe to have been a bomber pilot during World War Two .
20 Will a great management-swindling of shareholders prove to have been a fellow-passenger ?
21 ‘ You have to have been a variety artist or a dependant , ’ says Elliott , formerly a dancer and the late Dick Emery 's manager .
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