Example sentences of "[vb -s] to have [been] no [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | These sites , in their simplest form , betray little or no development away from the main frontages and there appears to have been no obvious urban focus within the plan . |
2 | This was in The New English Weekly , a London journal of very limited circulation ; there appears to have been no comparable acknowledgement in the poet 's native land . |
3 | It did not last but the parting seems to have been no terrible pain , the memory very fond . |
4 | Although it is smaller , Phaistos has an additional court , the Peristyle Court , to the north of the Central Court : there seems to have been no comparable courtyard at Knossos . |
5 | There seems to have been no clear trend in earnings over the period up to the rapid triumph of machine spinning after 1800 ; in the West of England rates per pound of wool spun were only marginally higher in the 1770s than in the century 's first decade . |
6 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
7 | On this occasion congress exercised its constitutional right to declare war , but , in retrospect , this seems to have been no more than a case of going through the motions — the age of crisis was well underway and the constitutional balance of powers would never be the same again . |