Example sentences of "seem have been as " in BNC.

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1 Tom Gower from Southport , though , seemed to have been as anxious for reassurance as he was to express solidarity .
2 In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty .
3 But what he said about the role technology would play in the war seems to have been as accurate as the laser-guided bombs shown on television .
4 Certainly , as Wilson used it , it seems to have been as much an instrument of personnel management as one of Cabinet government .
5 While this seems to have been as true among Edinburgh printers as anywhere else , there are plenty of indications that it was possible , for girls or unmarried women at any rate , to join societies or practise hobbies .
6 In 1768 the reactions of the North East men seems to have been as short term as those of other areas .
7 Ideally , the golden spike ( or " marker point " as it is more prosaically called ) should be chosen in a section where sedimentation seems to have been as nearly continuous as is ever possible , where there are no marked lithological changes and where there are unbroken records of several different groups of fossils .
8 The chinampas of central Mexico represent a most sophisticated form of wetland agriculture and the Veracruz raised fields do not seem to have been as elaborately built .
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