Example sentences of "seem [adv] to have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As yet this seems not to have been a frequent occurrence and the request was successfully rebuffed by some abbots of religious houses which did not own the king as patron , but a door had been opened which subsequent monarchs were to push far wider . |
| 2 | One of his mills was probably the largest in the country by the 1880s , though it seems not to have been a paper-mill when he acquired it . |
| 3 | And Ann , till the very end , seems somehow to have been a member of no chapel and yet of every chapel ; here she was , being afforded a burial service by courtesy of the Badcox congregation , yet being laid claim to at the same time by a neighbouring Dissenting church : Sheppards Barton Baptist Chapel registers include the entry : ‘ Anne Titford . |
| 4 | He seems also to have been a Zadokite — but does this mean that the Nazareans and the Zadokites were one and the same ? |
| 5 | He was not necessarily landless : he seems often to have been a smallholder , with land insufficient of itself to support him . |