Example sentences of "seem to have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one takes the views of the architects explicitly asked this question in the AMERG survey then the reforms seem to have been a mixed blessing ( 42 per cent thinking them to be beneficial and 29 per cent not to be ) . |
| 2 | Trading forecasts On this there does not , at least , seem to have been a great internal dispute . |
| 3 | ‘ Your interviews seem to have been a great success , ’ said Melissa casually as she helped herself to cheese . |
| 4 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 5 | Significantly , on the following day at Smithfield , after the deaths of Sudbury and Hales , there seem to have been no further demands concerning ‘ traitors ’ , but further ones about social and legal status , that there should be no lordship apart from the King 's , that the Church should be disendowed and ( cryptically ) that there should be no law except that of Winchester ( 11 , pp.161–5 ) . |
| 6 | The men behind this ordinance seem to have been the greater merchants , who hoped to control the trade more strictly in their own interests , but the new system was never wholly enforced . |
| 7 | The first people to have appreciated and replicated patinas seem to have been the Chinese . |
| 8 | Where lands were lost by churches , as in Aquitaine , the main beneficiaries seem to have been the local aristocracy — who traditionally cast greedy eyes on ecclesiastical wealth . |
| 9 | On this occasion the Hansards seem to have been the main beneficiaries from the decline in the activity of other alien merchants , but they too could be affected by political rivalry , and periods of tension between England and the Hanse towns , even if this fell short of war , were marked by substantial falls in cloth exports by the Hanse merchants . |
| 10 | They seem to have been an unscrupulous family , willing to exploit their closeness to the crown . |
| 11 | They seem to have been an unscrupulous family , willing to exploit their closeness to the crown . |