Example sentences of "it seem to have been a " in BNC.

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1 It seemed to have been a place of school and tennis , of clubs and tennis .
2 It seems to have been a happy marriage and Ximena bore Rodrigo two daughters .
3 And it seems to have been a monumental over-reaction by the British Olympic Association , to send the pair home in a pantomime of sealed letters and secret flights under assumed names .
4 It seems to have been a religion that was in transition , which may explain some startling contradictions or apparent contradictions .
5 It seems to have been a fact , as Jarvis 's mother pointed out , that no girl from Cambridge School , NW6 , had ever got to any university , let alone Cambridge .
6 For Richard it seems to have been a period of reconciliation : with Sebrand Chabot , who was allowed to return to his see in April 1180 , and with Aimar of Limoges , who arrived back at Christmas of the same year .
7 It seems to have been a fairly general rule in the later enclosure awards that the minimum width for inter-village roads should be forty feet between the ditches , though local roads carrying more than the average traffic for the district were often laid down forty-five or fifty feet wide .
8 It seems to have been a case of mistaken identity . ’
9 Dated to the second half of the second century , it seems to have been a tannery and leather workshop , and is not only one of the few reliable instances yet found for this industry , but is also one of the few industries attested at Alcester .
10 It seems to have been a fairly ordinary evening up until the end .
11 For these women it seems to have been a breath of pure oxygen , heady with proposals for socialist-feminist action , at a time when Kinnockism is attempting to kill it off .
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