Example sentences of "[vb base] to have be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detailed estimates of the costs of improvement of the ‘ Leicester Line ’ , including wide locks at Foxton and Watford appear to have been made in 1888 , and these indicated a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 2 | Hopes of getting an inquiry appear to have been dashed in 1979 when Britain offered its £100 million and gave the Sri-Lankan government the confidence to sweep aside any objections . |
| 3 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
| 4 | On the contrary , the first table on p 875 supports the health authority 's statement event though the multiple myeloma data appear to have been included in the column ‘ RES neoplasms ’ as well . |
| 5 | Plans to rebuild the Foreign Office appear to have been set in motion with the discovery of the poor state of the building and complaints from Palmerston that it was too small and had no rooms suitable for banquets and receptions . |
| 6 | They appear to have been settled in the seventh century in areas now known as Kosovo , Montenegro and Bosnia . |
| 7 | The argument was advanced that a form of welfare payment should perhaps be made available to those who happen to have been born in national parks ( as opposed to those who chose to move there ) if job and housing opportunities have been restricted by conservationist planning policies . |
| 8 | The British Library is now gradually coming face to face also with another side of the electronic revolution : the question of how to acquire , preserve and make available unpublished research materials which happen to have been produced in electronic form . |
| 9 | But in Washington these overtures , which happen to have been delivered in a thoroughly unorthodox way , are being sniffed at most gingerly . |
| 10 | Times must still have been hard down Whittox Lane , though nearly all its inhabitants seem to have been employed in some way or another — most of them in the clothing trade , alongside Mr. Middleditch , the Badcox Lane Baptist minister , and Charles Dyer , 23 , a coal miner . |
| 11 | Walls seem to have been painted in flat colour washes even earlier . |
| 12 | The body and the upper stand seem to have been made in a single casting . |
| 13 | ‘ He made much worse cuts in the ‘ Scenes aux champs ’ of Berlioz 's Symphonie fantastique and in the last movement of Martinů 's Sixth Symphony , though these seem to have been made in live performances only . ’ |
| 14 | Inevitably he painted ‘ La Canadienne ’ , but although she was deeply in love , Modigliani 's emotions never seem to have been engaged in the affair . |
| 15 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 16 | Most of the key decisions on military and political expenditure overseas in this period seem to have been taken in the Defence Committee , and simply endorsed by the Cabinet . |
| 17 | Rigorous steps to avoid selection biases seem to have been taken in only two of the four studies of immature babies — namely , those of Hofmeyr et al . |
| 18 | Indeed , in many of these later works , coherent and sequential narrative patterns seem to have been abandoned in order to be more representational , as in Mobile ( 1962 ) , Réseau aérien ( 1962 ) and 6 810 000 litres d'eau par seconde ( 1966 ) . |
| 19 | They seem to have been missing in action , releasing a couple of singles off the last album without providing any back-up tours to promote them . |
| 20 | However , Hermann says that he was generous to them , and the Bury Psalter and the Bury Gospels , both of which seem to have been produced in Christ Church Canterbury , were possibly commissioned by him as gifts . |
| 21 | Yet , the dangers of centralisation certainly seem to have been avoided in the main spending area , that of system engineering . |
| 22 | Of course , technological developments are not unambiguous and it is crucial that the Archive does not run too quickly with new developments which subsequently prove to have been misguided in some respects . |