Example sentences of "[noun] seem to have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of owners have noticed , to their dismay , that their feline pets seem to have a passion for drinking from puddles and pools of water in the garden . |
| 2 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 3 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 4 | Outside of their own milieu , Arabs seem to have a penchant for choosing the hustler as confidant , or the shyster as business companion . |
| 5 | On the whole , algebraists seem to have a slight preference for the latter whilst analysts tend to prefer the former , perhaps because of tradition . |
| 6 | Lorne Golub at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his colleagues have found that low doses of doxycycline seem to have a direct effect on collagenase , at least in the laboratory . |
| 7 | ‘ You and the kidnappers seem to have a perfect understanding , Zen . |
| 8 | Clowns seem to have a lower centre of gravity , or a magnetic field that converts everything to prose . |
| 9 | Their statements seem to have a number of points in common : first , they tend to be expressed in inappropriate circumstances , for example , someone makes a contribution to a congress , and someone else feels compelled to make an immediate reply . |
| 10 | I have already mentioned that right-handed pilots seem to have a natural tendency to turn left . |
| 11 | Although a number of different agencies were contacted by schools for support and guidance in the area of health education , the Health Education Board for Scotland ( HEBS ) and the various area health boards seem to have a particularly relevant role to play . |
| 12 | Beautifully arranged and produced many of the tracks seem to have a full orchestral backing-the wonders of modern technology Never-the-less this album has great atmosphere evoked by the fact that the songs fit smoothly and easily within the singers ' vocal range . |
| 13 | Both Joe and his former pupil Steve Vai seem to have a special fondness for one in particular : the Lydian . |
| 14 | Kubrick can posit only a mystical promise of future ( individual ) development because he fundamentally has little faith in human nature or society , unlike Clarke ( most sci-fi writers seem to have a deep-down streak of optimism , even when as downbeat as Philip K Dick or as ironic as Kurt Vonnegut ) . |
| 15 | Many of these problems seem to have a parallel in vision processing . |
| 16 | If the questions seem to have a clear age-related bias , however , then you could ask : ‘ Are you a bit concerned about my age ? ’ |
| 17 | Some people seem to have a natural knack for making money , while others have a marvellous ability for getting along without it . |
| 18 | Yet so many people seem to have a mental block on this point , rushing for those little bottles when common sense should tell them that they can not possibly have some dreadful plague as they have n't introduced any new fish for over a year ! |
| 19 | Perhaps it is the fault of the world in which we live , but people seem to have a great fear of failing , forgetting that failing at something does not mean that one is a ‘ failure ’ at life . |
| 20 | Derbyshire Assistant Chief Constable Don Dovaston said : ‘ People seem to have a total disregard for the safety of themselves and other road users . |
| 21 | Also , the UK Customs people seem to have a penchant for opening packages with disks in , and whilst I 've never heard of anything going missing from such a package , they never seem to have grasped the idea that magnets and x-rays do n't mix well with floppy disks . |
| 22 | I think it is appalling , quite atrocious — some people seem to have a death wish . ’ |
| 23 | Bob Hughes : ‘ Some people seem to have a death wish ’ |
| 24 | Palms seem to have a mechanical defence in the form of a woody endocarp , familiar as the ‘ stone ’ of a date . |
| 25 | By contrast , some patients seem to have a frequency that is rarely less than 10 in 24 hours and need to take antidiarrhoeal agents and modify their diet . |
| 26 | ‘ For reasons that I can not understand , ’ he continued , ‘ we in Britain seem to have a negative response to winners . |
| 27 | Phelan and Staunton seem to have a great understanding on the left wing and I doubt Charlton will move either . |
| 28 | I am sad to say that some Conservative Members and one or two of my hon. Friends seem to have a little Englander mentality . |
| 29 | Unless there are an appreciable number of genuine deaths from asthma in people aged over 65 this supports my belief that the annual number of deaths due to asthma nationally is nearer 500 than 2000 ( even allowing for some genuine deaths from asthma not certified as such and given that some areas such as West Cumbria and perhaps Hertfordshire seem to have a lower mortality than Norwich ) . |
| 30 | However , these classifications can not successfully be extrapolated to gastrointestinal lymphomas as MALT lymphocytes and their derived lymphomas seem to have a physiology that differs from their nodal counterparts . |