Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Victoria County History puts it , somewhat laconically , ‘ The chief result appears to have been an order given to the overseers to relieve ten more able-bodied families . ’ |
| 2 | His entire career in industry seems to have been a series of opportunities seized with relish . |
| 3 | Full though these are , they are not always very helpful — much of the chronicle material depends on hearsay , although the author of the Anonimalle Chronicle seems to have been an eye-witness of events in London or at least to have had access to some eye-witness account . |
| 4 | And yet religion seems to have been the only respectable profession open to a woman other than marriage and child-bearing . |
| 5 | Tell the King that Mohamed Srifi 's only crime seems to have been the expression of his peaceful political views . |
| 6 | Sherratt seems to have been an eccentric himself . |
| 7 | The men behind this ordinance seem to have been the greater merchants , who hoped to control the trade more strictly in their own interests , but the new system was never wholly enforced . |
| 8 | Whereas in much of eastern Europe , which was moving in the same direction , enserfment seems to have been the response of a very powerful nobility to a labour shortage ( made more acute in areas responding to the growing Western market for grain ) , in Russia the State clearly played a greater role . |
| 9 | A band whose main influence seems to have been the orchestra tuning up backwards on ‘ A Day In The Life ’ ? |
| 10 | Its main work appears to have been the organizing of humanitarian aid to Spain , such as the ‘ milk for Spain ’ appeals . |
| 11 | As Green points out , in sub-Saharan Africa , technical assistance seems to have been the only real growth area in aid over the past half decade . |
| 12 | The embryonic plot appeared to have been an amateurish operation which did not pose a serious threat to the government . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The main factor causing this redistribution seems to have been a massive increase in non-serious wounding . |
| 15 | For quite some time after publication of Principia Ethica , its type of ethical intuitionism seems to have been the dominating moral philosophy in Britain , though not in America . |
| 16 | The author seems to have been a companion and friend of St Paul . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The increasing processing and chemicalization of our food and drink appears to have been a major factor in the rise of chronic disease in this country in the past three to four decades by causing much chemical stress on the body and its inner metabolic balances . |
| 19 | The decisive factor in this case seems to have been the fact that there had been no previous contact between the child and the birth father . |
| 20 | We present a case of bilateral hydroureter and hydronephrosis in which compression from a large pseudocyst seems to have been the cause . |
| 21 | The citadel seems to have been the most populous part ; here were the workshops which produced the famous Limoges enamels . |
| 22 | The opposite seems to have been the case in the decision to shut down the Unlisted Securities Market and the resulting uproar : a failure to ensure all needs and requirements were still met somehow . |
| 23 | It did not last but the parting seems to have been no terrible pain , the memory very fond . |
| 24 | Oswulf 's overthrow seems to have been the consequence of challenge to the monopoly of royal power by the descendants of Leodwald as dynamic new forces entered the arena of Northumbrian dynastic politics . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | The second strand of policy was to encourage multinationals to use France and Britain as production bases ; this latter aspect of policy seems to have been the more successful strand . |
| 27 | Also , in parallel with the United States , the influence of public policy seems to have been an additional factor of some importance since it has been observed that the policy of the occupying powers after 1947 probably strengthened the tendency to form enterprise-based unions rather than alternative structures for bargaining purposes ( Levine , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | ( The final tightening of control seems to have been a response to Western actions . ) |
| 29 | Sharpening the focus on penicillin appears to have been a gradual process . |
| 30 | The man with the feather brush seems to have been a station functionary unique to Egypt . |