Example sentences of "seems to have [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody seems to have explained this to her , but finally she understands . |
| 2 | In a cumbersome way it seems to have done this fairly effectively , for it was difficult for an official to embezzle royal money without being exposed in the long run , although the run was often so long that he was dead before it finished . |
| 3 | Once again , no party except ours seems to have grasped this simple point or made any proposal to act on it . |
| 4 | Erm the first point I 'd like to make erm on this issue erm is that Mr erm seems to have assessed this criterion solely with reference to landscape quality . |
| 5 | The Dialogue is one of the pieces Purcell included in the Guildhall songbook : he seems to have compiled this manuscript for his young lady singing pupils , and several of the items in it show similar signs of revision and re-working . |
| 6 | He seems to have maintained this style to the end . |
| 7 | The fact that most of the players in the Olympic match were from England seems to have borne this out , and our Blundellian correspondent sadly reflects : ‘ A cricketer in France is a stranger in a strange land looked upon with mingled awe and contempt by the average Frenchman . ’ |
| 8 | And indeed David Liddle , Director of Community Leisure in Avon , who is in charge of Avon County Libraries , seems to have taken this very line at the same seminar : |
| 9 | The French King seems to have taken this as an insult and , if he had not already been in touch with the Poitevin rebels , he very soon was . |
| 10 | He seems to have taken this view because he was perturbed about the growing power and intransigence of the Soviet Union , whose diplomats he had encountered at the foundation conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in April 1945 . |
| 11 | The conduct of Carolus Junior ( he seems to have approved this epithet ) as king , casting retrospective light on his own formative years , suggests that his teachers vigorously instilled the lesson of wisdom 's utility . |
| 12 | Fredegar , however , seems to have remembered this same council as being concerned with the foundation of the royal monastery of St Marcel at Chalon . |
| 13 | Alexander seems to have shared this insouciant attitude to the economic problem , arguing at one stage that there should not be a problem of competition for manpower between civilian and military uses as ‘ a slight increase in productivity ’ would solve the manpower gap . |
| 14 | and seems to have worked this time . |
| 15 | On the whole he seems to have found this an unrewarding period professionally as well as personally , which drove him , like George Somerset in A Laodicean , to indulge in ‘ an old enthusiasm for poetical literature ’ . |