Example sentences of "[noun] seem to have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His entire career in industry seems to have been a series of opportunities seized with relish . |
| 2 | I mean , May seems to have been a light month , |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The main factor causing this redistribution seems to have been a massive increase in non-serious wounding . |
| 5 | The connection led to an invitation to drive in FI for Ferrari , an arrangement which in those years seems to have been a rather casual affair . |
| 6 | ‘ Simon de Montfort seems to have been a pretty important baron . ’ |
| 7 | The author seems to have been a companion and friend of St Paul . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Another of his favourites seems to have been a tomato jam ; this he uses for a sweet called Peaches Barbara with cream and kirschwasser and pistachio nuts . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | ( The final tightening of control seems to have been a response to Western actions . ) |
| 13 | ‘ Garland seems to have been a very modest man . ’ |
| 14 | But toleration of large numbers of reversioners seems to have been a feature of the reign of James I rather than the Tudors . |
| 15 | The man with the feather brush seems to have been a station functionary unique to Egypt . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Bicester seems to have been a medieval planted town probably laid out around 1239 along the then main road through the area , the Aylesbury to Banbury road ( A41 ) . |
| 18 | Despite the fame of the boot , Schorne 's cult seems to have been a sensitive one , neither coarse nor exhibitionist . |
| 19 | From a devotional text which he carried in his pocket throughout the war , Potter seems to have been a devout Puritan . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Your interviews seem to have been a great success , ’ said Melissa casually as she helped herself to cheese . |
| 23 | From their shapes , these marks seem to have been a form of writing . |
| 24 | 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 ! ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |