Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The main factor causing this redistribution seems to have been a massive increase in non-serious wounding . |
| 4 | The author seems to have been a companion and friend of St Paul . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ( The final tightening of control seems to have been a response to Western actions . ) |
| 9 | Sharpening the focus on penicillin appears to have been a gradual process . |
| 10 | The man with the feather brush seems to have been a station functionary unique to Egypt . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Thus , the transfer of initiatives from a national to a regional scale appears to have been a conscious , logical policy decision by the Cambridge Board , using the example of the successful Nottingham University scheme devised by professor Peers , whom Geoffrey Hickson admired . |
| 13 | Despite the fame of the boot , Schorne 's cult seems to have been a sensitive one , neither coarse nor exhibitionist . |
| 14 | 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 ! ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This plan came to grief , however , when Waters , in an attempt to establish friendly relations , gave a prospective producer a copy of one of his books , which showed the idiosyncratic director palling up with one of Charles Manson 's gang — a gesture which was in even worse taste than it might sound , as the producer proved to have been a good friend of one of the gang 's victims . |