Example sentences of "[vb -s] have [been] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | Outside the wall , except on the north side , where the river came to its foot , there appears to have been only a single ditch , some 6.5 m ( 21 ft ) wide and 2.5 m ( 8 ft ) deep , which had been truncated by the medieval ditch ; it is most likely to have been contemporary with the early rampart . |
2 | Like many soldierly rulers of his time — like many soldierly rulers since — he seems to have been both a superstitious man and one imbued with a very real sense of the sacred . |
3 | THE gap between Absolute Beginners and Earth Girls Are Easy seems to have been rather a long one . |
4 | Until near the middle of the sixteenth century the enrolment of a student who had completed , or nearly completed , his studies as a candidate for office and the subsequent appointment of him to a post seems to have been rather a disorganized process . |
5 | In fact , Constantine 's attitude towards Christianity seems to have been primarily a matter of expediency , for Christians by then were numerous in the Empire and he needed all the support he could muster against Maxentius , his rival for the imperial throne . |
6 | During the course of their meeting , however , news arrived of Kennedy 's assassination the previous day , and what seems to have been primarily a personal initiative by the President was dropped . |
7 | Locks have suffered some deterioration , but this seems to have been mainly a result of idealistic notions of when the canal would be fully operational . |
8 | For the elderly , the history of welfare provision seems to have been less a story of steady progress over the centuries than an oscillation between phases of relative generosity and meanness . |
9 | The Royal Institution had begun with an abortive attempt to train artisans in elementary science ; mechanics ' institutes provided lectures for what seems to have been chiefly a membership from the lower middle class . |
10 | it seems to have been quite a reasonable picture , you know , it 's quite well |