Example sentences of "seem to have [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though theoretically useful to library planners and funding authorities , standards rarely seem to have much influence upon events , which are determined by political factors or chance . |
| 2 | Sue Robertson , Educational Officer at The South Bank Centre , feels extremely grateful to Kodak for their essential contribution to this project , and believes that it 's very important to combat the idea many young people seem to have that galleries are very boring places to visit . |
| 3 | For the Government in general and the Employment Secretary in particular seem to have little idea about the problems of working women . |
| 4 | " 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 . " |
| 5 | Others in the same country seem to have little notion of what is happening ( e.g. Bajracharya ( 1981 ) from eastern Nepal ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I seem to have little choice as far as you 're concerned . ’ |
| 7 | Some visually handicapped pupils have good central vision and seem to have little difficulty in reading , but poor peripheral vision can give them problems in managing their environment . |
| 8 | Children seem to have little difficulty accepting this convention because it is so like the action replays they will frequently have seen on television . |
| 9 | At ward level , managerial changes often seem to have little impact or significance on clinical practice , and experience suggests many nurses are unaware of or uninterested in the implications of such reforms . |
| 10 | In some cases , trade associations seem to have little sanction over rogue members . |
| 11 | Application of ether or certain vital dyes to the ulcers both have their adherents but seem to have little effect on the natural course of the disease . |
| 12 | Study of Mackmurdo 's character reveals a strong vein of the mountebank and many of his claims seem to have little basis in fact . |
| 13 | A French scientist said ‘ Most of the work to be done in science and the useful arts is precisely that which needs the knowledge and co-operation of many scientists that is why it is necessary for scientists and technologists to meet — even in those branches of knowledge which seem to have least relation and connection with one another . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I thought I might have hurt you — God knows I tried to be careful , but you seem to have this knack of wiping out twenty-five years of control and finesse with a single touch . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And it was like , nothing , so we just extended all this out and made it into a stage come , a bigger dance floor cos the I do n't know why they wa always seem to have this trends that , they have these trends in the seventies and that was , and eighties of having small dance floors |
| 17 | Yeah although the tape 's on I 'll still say I 'll still say I mean there are people within the company as within any company I 'm sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 18 | Erm indeed there are many within in the education system , particularly older men seem to have this attitude in my experience , that y'know it 's just it 's just boys messing about and having a good time . |
| 19 | ‘ But we seem to have this thing in Wales about always knocking our best players and looking around to try to put forward rivals who are n't as good . ’ |
| 20 | In terms of er political views , or even those who have no political views , of ethnic make-up and everything of this kind and yet now it seems that at a time when our police forces above all , need to move into the present day and prepare themselves for the challenges of the crime and the criminals at the end of this century and into the next century , we seem to have some misgivings about giving the Home Secretary the powers which are placed in this Bill . |
| 21 | We seem to have some problem with that report . |
| 22 | People seem to have some urge to tell everyone else all the things which in my day we kept quiet about ! |
| 23 | While the methods of structural linguistics seem to have some role to play in studying the structure of meaningful systems , they have nothing directly to offer the unravelling of meaning . |
| 24 | Erm they seem to have some trouble erm grasping erm under what circumstances , according to Locke , you can be deemed to have been given , to have given express consent . |
| 25 | Although bankers seem to have some optimism , even members of the Reichmann family say the debt restructuring will be a long haul . |
| 26 | Northern men seem to have most sex : it 's slightly more common for them to be having sex 4–6 times a week , they 're least likely to have had only one partner in the past year , and most likely to say they get enough sex . |
| 27 | ‘ You seem to have enough bags . ’ |
| 28 | You may not have behaved too badly under the circumstances ( though we all have a limit to the length of our inner fuse ) ; but how much of the conflict was contributed by the part of you over which you seem to have less control , the fire down below , the lesser-disciplined arena of your own strong inner responses ? |
| 29 | They are wonderful with good or very good orchestras , but with a top orchestra they seem to have both hands bound ! |
| 30 | It does seem as though the Fantasy League people have it mainly correct however , as only the top 5 teams in this table seem to have any chance of getting 1st or 2nd place ( excepting maybe Norwich at 9th ) , the rest destined for mid-table ignominy . |