Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We seem to have reached a contradictory position . |
| 32 | We seem to have lost a common language . |
| 33 | Two members , however , seem to have undergone a major personality change . |
| 34 | I never stopped loving you , but somehow since I 've been abroad , and you 've been ‘ out in the world ’ , we seem to have struck a deeper note , and more powerful … |
| 35 | The Italian manufacturer seems to be happy with the arrangement because , being a medium-sized manufacturer , it is considered that it would be too expensive to set up their own distribution facilities in the United Kingdom , and Argent Distributors seem to have performed a reasonable selling job on their behalf . |
| 36 | You seem to have had a nasty shock . ’ |
| 37 | Possibly the fact that the Robin Hood ballads , which probably took their early form in this period , seem to have had a southern origin but set their events in the North ( particularly in Barnsdale , north of Doncaster , rather than in Sherwood ) , reflects the beliefs of southerners that the North was a strange and wild world . |
| 38 | There are few direct echoes of the opera in the Study Symphony but the entry of Wagner into Bruckner 's life seem to have had a transforming effect . |
| 39 | With these objects , in their millennium of power , the Celts seem to have had a splendid time scraping and whipping Europe into shape . |
| 40 | ‘ You seem to have had a good view , ’ commented Dexter . |
| 41 | ‘ You seem to have had a profitable afternoon . ’ |
| 42 | Happily , and not unexpectedly , a couple of years amid the off-Broadway climes of the county stage seem to have had a mellowing effect . |
| 43 | There must be some better talent in the lower divisions , I do nt hold much hope of getting Cook because Wolves seem to have found a few quid recently and would certainly put a silly price on him . |
| 44 | ‘ You can help Claudia , Dana , and then we 'll collect your things from the hotel , though you seem to have bought a fresh wardrobe . ’ |
| 45 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 46 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 47 | I I like do support a narrower area of search for that reason . |
| 48 | Palmer looks a negative choice , he 's not playing well either , I like to have seen a right side player in there ? |
| 49 | But those who participate have to sign a non-competition deal preventing them from leaving to work with a rival consortium . |
| 50 | In America a law that forces companies to measure and disclose all the toxic waste they produce has had a significant effect . |
| 51 | Mountbatten tried to reassure him , but added , ‘ I foresee having to fight a civil war against 10000 armed Burmese soldiers at a time when it is vital that my forces should be better employed . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ We'se goin' to have a big Carol Service in the church on Christmas Eve . |
| 53 | ‘ many retailers use EPoSS to replenish a perpetual inventory automatically . |
| 54 | Erm I know you 've probably had more than enough of that , but keep keep having a little look |
| 55 | I really enjoy watching boxing and try to get to see a few sports programmes every week . |
| 56 | Use to have to get a new business canvassing . |
| 57 | While the fears of some that deals had been done are not justified by our data , in at least one school senior staff claim to have received a Minor Project grant as a retrospective reward . |
| 58 | They claim to have discovered a close relationship between the rate of growth in Gross National Product and the type of college education favoured by Britain 's economic competitors , arguing that the nations that prosper most are those that prepare their students best for the " enterprise culture " of the late twentieth century . |
| 59 | Tandy , an American company , claim to have invented a recordable CD system . |
| 60 | Teachers who claim to have been highly involved also claim to have used a wider variety of methods and feel more competent to conduct the review , believing it to have been more of a whole-school effort , more thorough and more useful in producing proposals for change . |