Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ( The final tightening of control seems to have been a response to Western actions . ) |
| 8 | The man with the feather brush seems to have been a station functionary unique to Egypt . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Despite the fame of the boot , Schorne 's cult seems to have been a sensitive one , neither coarse nor exhibitionist . |
| 11 | 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 ! ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |