Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated . |
| 2 | Investigators from the Mine Safety and Health Administration ( MSHA ) report that in many cases dust had been vacuumed or blown out of sampling devices prior to being sent to inspectors . |
| 3 | Their reputations as major artists appear to have been confirmed by their strong showing ( see captions ) . |
| 4 | In the 1695 Election support for the war was the major national issue , but most election contests appear to have been dominated by local rivalries and concerns , and in fact there was relatively little controversial pamphleteering at this time , despite the recent expiry of the Licensing Act . |
| 5 | Remains of glass working , bell making and bronze working have been found in the layers immediately preceding the building of the church , while the foundations appear to have been laid directly on top of a demolished Roman monumental building . |
| 6 | The other methods listed have been used much less . |
| 7 | If the trustee is unable to declare any or any further dividend , he must give notice to this effect to creditors , and the notice must also contain a statement to the effect that no funds have been realised or that all funds realised have been distributed or used to meet the expenses of the administration ( r 11.7 ) . |
| 8 | So unflattering are they , their subjects appear to have been caught off guard . |
| 9 | Performances are authoritative and committed , the recordings largely satisfactory ( bar the strangely muffled sound in the Sixth Symphony ) , and the left and right channels appear to have been reversed ( as in the Glebov below ) . |
| 10 | The freight charges vessels expect to earn are negotiated on the basis of a system called ‘ Worldscale ’ , published twice a year in London and New York . |
| 11 | Its most likely period of operation is between 300 and 325 , whereafter some of its craftsmen appear to have been employed at Withington , and . |
| 12 | The special niche Bankers Books has established was enhanced by the publication of its catalogue which led to a significant increase in sales late in the year and a year end profit of £79,000 . |
| 13 | A selection of new books added to stock is listed below : |
| 14 | The words seemed to have been dragged up one by one from the depths of himself , like prisoners loaded with chains , and released to the world only with great reluctance . |
| 15 | Suddenly our roles seemed to have been reversed . |
| 16 | His anxieties seemed to have been left behind in Cairo . |
| 17 | Much of the vegetation on which the animals depend has been wiped out by the drought . |
| 18 | Both the branches studied had been influenced by this political directive . |
| 19 | What is less easy to explain is that all of these words seem to have been created as phonetic imitations of the first meaningful sound uttered by many babies . |
| 20 | Both methods seem to have been used at Ife , depending on the metal to be cast . |
| 21 | Around them lay the wreckage from the most costly gamble in British history — with a third of the nation 's foreign reserves thought to have been lost in Mr Lamont 's battle to protect sterling . |
| 22 | But since all large commercially-made cylinders seem to have been copied from standard ones , there was no increase in quality , only in volume . |
| 23 | All foreign branches seem to have been closed for financial reasons in 1891–1892 , but Wilson , after the refloating of the union in 1894 , persisted in his international endeavours , establishing new branches in Hamburg , Rotterdam and Antwerp in the following year and an agency in New York , and accepting the logic of the shipowners ' often repeated argument that British claims to higher pay would be more convincing if foreign rates were brought up to British levels . |
| 24 | Certain kinds of employers ' combinations seem to have been hindered by antitrust legislation and this may help to explain the generally low level of organisation among employers . |
| 25 | So within the range of the state 's responsibility to its subjects failing to help is hindering . |
| 26 | Most of the animals seized have been transferred to other farms in Gloucestershire where many have fully recovered . |
| 27 | There are many other varieties of folding knives known to have been produced during the Roman period , but most of these other types are rarely found in Britain . |
| 28 | A conservative estimate is that power must have grown by about 30bhp ; in any case , this figure is likely to be overtaken soon when the four-valve cylinder heads known to have been developed by sister company Cosworth are installed in the car . |
| 29 | The city 's site on the Isthmus made her a natural centre for trade , and the aryballos seems to have been created to meet a new need : to bottle scented oils , imported from the East , for re-export east and west . |
| 30 | However , when and , the space-time appears to be regular for all , and the singularity caused by the mutual focusing of the two waves appears to have been removed . |