Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house next door , similar in style , did not seem to have suffered the same mutilation . |
| 2 | Yet all her precautions do not seem to have prevented the 26-year-old woman from abduction . |
| 3 | How her borrowings became so vast is a bit of a mystery , but she does not seem to have ploughed the straightest furrow in Osaka . |
| 4 | It might seem surprising , then , that Chancellor Kohl should seem to have accepted the French position , until one reflects for a moment on the implications . |
| 5 | Sadly , this principle does not seem to have informed the later research . |
| 6 | While dependence on American assistance in 1964 – 65 might seem to have left the British government dangerously exposed to American influence ( or even dictation ) , in practice it is just as reasonable to argue that the Wilson government was able to turn American self-interest to its own advantage . |
| 7 | Agnes read them through , then said more calmly : ‘ Well , he does seem to have got the top people … |
| 8 | Colliers probably , and metal miners possibly , were among groups who do not seem to have experienced the widespread fall in real earnings after 1760 . |
| 9 | Young academics and critics do not seem to have had the same difficulty , or if they do , are not letting on . |
| 10 | Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do . |
| 11 | It does not seem to have had the same connotations as the contemporary concept of adolescence . |