Example sentences of "seem to have had [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comprehensivization , he muttered to himself , seemed to have had much the same effect on the middle-middle class in England as racial integration in schools had had on similar people in the States . |
| 2 | Although , fortunately up to now , I never seem to have had many health problems with using opiates . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Generally , the small Wealden farmers seem to have had little incentive or commitment to improvement . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But once ashore , others seem to have had little difficulty in establishing new homes . |
| 7 | In some cases , though , reports seem to have had little impact , and in many others their effects are difficult to assess . |
| 8 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 9 | By contrast , the English seem to have had fewer ships at this period , although Edward III had some royal ships , and vessels were built for largely defensive purposes . |
| 10 | They were used to rubbing shoulders with Tatars in regions west of the Urals , and seem to have had few trances of the sense of racial superiority which other European colonists took with them . |
| 11 | Over the years , I seem to have had more ‘ associations ’ with God — and I have the greatest difficulty in saying or writing the word — than there are vineyards in the Medoc . |
| 12 | Before the 1980s its lowest ebb was probably during the last years of Stalin 's life when his private office and the secret police seem to have had more influence than the party . |
| 13 | In terms of feedback from the report , primary teachers seem to have had most and secondary teachers least . |
| 14 | Stirling sent a blistering series of signals to both the Eighth Army and MEHQ which seem to have had some effect . |
| 15 | Natural caves are the most obvious ; some of the earliest evidence for permanent dwellings comes from caves , and they also seem to have had some ritual function , connected with ancient cave paintings . |
| 16 | The great all seem to have had this cross to bear , and that is no comfort — I think more is to be found in the wicked suspicion that perhaps it 's a thing those Snows have n't experienced . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Your brother seems to have had little use for credit cards . ’ |
| 19 | Thereafter it seems to have had several changes of ownership . |
| 20 | By 1794 he seems to have had enough of undisciplined emotion and of the actions of Robespierre , Rousseau 's fervent disciple ; and therefore rushed to embrace a new philosophy of reason and nonviolence . |
| 21 | Dill , the ‘ boarded meeting place ’ , was one of the few Sussex hundreds that seems to have had any accommodation specially provided ; what effect the winter conditions had on the conducting of business can only be imagined . |
| 22 | This argument seems to have had some effect , for while the Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked to look more closely at the dollar costs of overseas forces , the Defence Ministry 's view that no further cuts in forces should be sought was accepted . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it seems to have had some effect on Sandys . |
| 24 | For so much was untrue , and Margaret never doubted her sister 's integrity ; they really believed , poor things , that what they said was true , and Miss Ironside or whatever her name is seems to have had some grudge against her . |
| 25 | In common with the men of Qumran , with whom he seems to have had some links , John saw washing with water as merely a preparatory rite , while the great cleansing and the gift of the Spirit lay in the future ( I QS : 9–1 of and 4:21 ) . |
| 26 | In addition , Humphrys seems to have had some difficulty in adjusting to the fact that Afghanistan was no longer a dependency of British India . |
| 27 | Despite his obvious scientific expertise , the Board of Excise seems to have had some doubts and in 1845 instructed him and nine other officers to matriculate at University College London and attend classes in general and analytical chemistry . |
| 28 | The Trojan story is first recorded in Fredegar , and it seems to have had some vogue in seventh- and eighth-century Francia , where other Trojan legends were preserved . |
| 29 | They , and Zoser particularly , do n't seem to have had much personal life at all . ’ |