Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [vb pp] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since his 1990 debut , The Unbelievable Truth , he appears to have slipped from obscurity to security without ever becoming popular . |
| 2 | If it is closely examined at this point it appears to have died from shock , but then a few moments later it may revive miraculously and fly off . |
| 3 | This was not , in all probability , the intent of the statute : it seems to have arisen from concern expressed by the commons in parliament at the tendency of the judges in the 1340s to construe as usurpation of royal power , and thus treason , such offences as riot and highway robbery . |
| 4 | This is a very wide range of services indeed , and the main responsibility for selection , at least in public libraries , seems to have shifted from library staff to library supplier staff . |
| 5 | The conservatism of Pask , the chief engineer , seems to have derived from pressure from his ex-CEB colleagues in operations , who stressed the need for absolute reliability in new machines . |