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Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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 .