Example sentences of "to have been [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | However , there seems to have been little empirical work done on such courses . |
2 | Although John Ellis , a botanical and zoological Fellow , had written to Linnaeus , ‘ Miller 's Dictionary is the chief book that is read by gentlemen who study the art of gardening ’ , there seems to have been little pleasant exchange between them . |
3 | There seems to have been much genuine enthusiasm for the renewal of war with France in the early eighteenth century . |
4 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
5 | In this context there seems to have been some unexplained change of thinking on the part of the Inspectorate because the eight areas of experience ( in Curriculum 11–16 ) were seen as a way of considering a common curriculum , presumably satisfying all aspects of the curriculum including ‘ education and society ’ and ‘ working life ’ . |
6 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
7 | There does not appear to have been any significant progress on this in the intervening twenty-four years . |
8 | There does not appear to have been any significant pressure from voluntary organizations or the public . |
9 | Before we do that we must see what we can glimpse of what seems to have been another major achievement of the seventh century , the revival of the art of painting . |