Example sentences of "seem to have [verb] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | In economic terms they seem to have had little effect : in Merseyside , for instance , which has had every new scheme , economic decline has not even been halted , let alone reversed . |
| 2 | Generally , the small Wealden farmers seem to have had little incentive or commitment to improvement . |
| 3 | Obviously , the heroin use of their son or daughter came as a great shock to most parents , many of whom seem to have had little or no idea that their offspring was involved in any drug use whatsoever , let alone daily heroin use . |
| 4 | But once ashore , others seem to have had little difficulty in establishing new homes . |
| 5 | In some cases , though , reports seem to have had little impact , and in many others their effects are difficult to assess . |
| 6 | Yet , publicly at least , the whole enterprise seems to have caused little excitement . |
| 7 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 8 | Edward III , however , seems to have made little effort to safeguard these rights . |
| 9 | Thus the British government acquired a powder-mill of its own in 1759 , though it seems to have made little use of it , and another in 1787 . |
| 10 | Fortunately for the Government , this short debate in the House of Lords seems to have attracted little attention from the press , and it continued to receive general approbation for the exhibition , with the relevance of the competition remaining largely unquestioned . |
| 11 | Skerne is mentioned in the Domesday Book as a small village and seems to have changed little ever since ! |
| 12 | WPC Dick 's salutary essay ( 1985 ) changed little and generated few ripples on the ACPO pond , while one of the most powerfully critical books on policing in recent years ( Jones 1980 ) seems to have had little effect on the structures of the organization , except , perhaps , to help draw its author — then a chief inspector — into the ACPO ranks . |
| 13 | ‘ Your brother seems to have had little use for credit cards . ’ |
| 14 | Strangely , Shepherd seems to have shown little interest in the effects of the electric media ; indeed , his account of the present-day situation assumes an even tighter grip by the ‘ industrial world sense ’ , the system created by literacy and print being generalized as a ‘ symbolic-technological filter ’ which regulates the processes of communication vital to socialisation and the creation of consciousness ’ ( Shepherd 1982 : 149–50 ) . |