Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [det] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rance quickly decided that the Executive Council he had inherited from Dorman-Smith was useless while most of the senior British officials seemed to lack any ideas . |
| 2 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
| 3 | No one seemed to have any idea . |
| 4 | Only Throgmorton seemed to have any idea of civilised behaviour . |
| 5 | For the Government in general and the Employment Secretary in particular seem to have little idea about the problems of working women . |
| 6 | " Too many ill-presented , ill-written and extremely long-winded scripts are seen from candidates who seem to have little idea even of the basics of sentence construction . " |
| 7 | They seem to have this idea about natural talent and any kid who shows the slightest promise is put into sport and made to concentrate on that . |
| 8 | The fact that none are so far known in the vicinity of Jelling itself seems to support this idea . |
| 9 | Yet Coriolan seems to criticize such ideas when they produce an external show ( ‘ 5,800,000 rifles and carbines ’ ) which may demonstrate force and flourish , yet has no central Word behind it . |
| 10 | No one seems to have any idea why ; but hardly anyone seems to have thought it worth while to try to find out … |
| 11 | He seems to have more idea than the ould feller . ’ |
| 12 | I do n't know if he had been lunged before , but he did n't seem to have much idea about it and was wary of the lunge whip at first . |
| 13 | They do n't seem to have any idea about who 's behind these killings . ’ |
| 14 | They did not seem to have any idea of what a sandwich course was about ; they seemed to pretend that their students were all mature men with industrial experience . |
| 15 | There has been a long debate as to whether Severn Mill was operated as a tide mill , the general opinion now seeming to favour this idea . |