Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It seemed to have changed colour . |
2 | Late in September , it claimed to have taken Ahwaz , but this was denied by Tehran radio . |
3 | Moreover it began to free captured troops on July 5 and to lift blockades . |
4 | Individual governors are understood to be unhappy at the tax arrangements and the way it appears to have damaged Mr Birt 's credibility in the eyes of licence payers . |
5 | It appears to have escaped Berkeley 's attention that not all imaginary things , for example a drunkard 's pink rats , are voluntary and lack the vivacity of the real thing , and also that , when I set myself to imagine something , I can make my ideas as orderly and coherent as I like . |
6 | It appears to have undergone reduction in the Endopterygota , though it is probably represented by the dense reticulation present in certain orders of Exopterygota such as the Odonata . |
7 | It appears to have included means of determining the positions of the sun and moon in the zodiac , and it involved an assembly of wheels with fixed gear-ratios for the mechanization of the Metonic cycle , in which 19 solar years correspond to 235 lunar months ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
8 | Dr Boutros-Ghali has already said he favours the idea but it appears to have divided UN peace-keepers in Bosnia and the main UN aid agency . |
9 | All in all , it seems to have diverted De Niro 's energies away from the more serious and interesting business of Tribeca Productions , and in future , it may even start to eat into company funds . |
10 | It seems to have struck edge-on as though the blow nearly missed . |
11 | it seems to have got sort of so much more deformed . |
12 | It appeared to have had wings , and a number of spikes sticking out of its back . |
13 | York Minster still preserves the Horn of Ulf , by which it claims to have received lands from a local magnate during the eleventh century , and tenure by horn was known even later . |