Example sentences of "to have be [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | THE gap between Absolute Beginners and Earth Girls Are Easy seems to have been rather a long one . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He is also much younger , 23 , than I thought — he seemed to have been around a long time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As a workhouse it was reckoned to have been quite a terrible place . |
| 7 | it seems to have been quite a reasonable picture , you know , it 's quite well |
| 8 | On the face of it , there would seem to have been quite a strong case for handing over the division to the Soviet authorities along with the other formations originating form territories controlled by the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | 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 . |