Example sentences of "[modal v] seem have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives might seem to have a legitimate claim as the largest single party ; but they had failed to obtain a mandate for Protection . |
| 2 | These are animals that would seem to have no chance of survival in the desert — they are toads . |
| 3 | We were quite proud of this achievement as it would seem to have no precedent . |
| 4 | Much of our thinking would seem to have a more-or-less pictorial character , after all . |
| 5 | People like Ms Pamala Klein would seem to have a lot to answer for . |
| 6 | Monitor theory and reinforcement theory would seem to have a good deal in common . |
| 7 | External economic changes would seem to have a specific and localised impact on businesses within the particular sectors most immediately affected : neither the Big Bang nor the Crash has necessarily triggered off either an expansion or diminution of headhunting across the board in British companies generally . |
| 8 | Across the great divide the hotly coloured landscapes by Evgeni Dybski , from Konsyanza in Romania , and the even larger Fauvist Landscapes by Londonborn Lucy Jones , would seem to have a considerable number of points in common . |
| 9 | The plans would seem to have the merit both of broadening the spectrum of judges and giving the consumer greater choice . |
| 10 | Confucians ever since Mencius ( fl. 320 BC ) were very much concerned with the problem that if , as seems evident , there is evil in the nature which man receives from Heaven , to do evil in accordance with one 's nature would seem to have the authority of Heaven . |
| 11 | Alan Gordon James Watt would seem to have the ideal credentials for an international lock . |
| 12 | Out wide , the Bath duo of Tony Swift and Jim Fallon would seem to have the edge on Andy Harriman , if he recovers from injury , and Mike Wedderburn . |
| 13 | This ahistorical theory of confirmation would seem to have the unappealing consequence that innumerable observations made on falling stones , planetary positions , etc. will constitute worthwhile scientific activity insofar as they will lead to increases in the estimate of the probability of the truth of the law of gravitation . |
| 14 | I should add that the court 's answer in paragraph 19 to question 2(b) , which referred to claims in ‘ tort and contract and for unjust enrichment ’ ( emphasis added ) would seem to have the effect of ruling out the third heading since it is a restitutionary claim not based on tort . |
| 15 | They would seem to have the same purpose . |
| 16 | In ( 2 ) , on the other hand , we would seem to have the equivalent of He managed to get free , that is , a use where the to infinitive evokes a subsequent actualization ( i.e. a realized event ) . |
| 17 | " Rome may seem to have no very direct connection with Foulness , but a good deal of international business is done there . |
| 18 | Many changes are not viewed as fundamental in today 's economic climate , so in theory we may seem to have the backing of the legal scheme , where in practice we have to cope with the interpretation which is weighed towards the employers and their economic arguments . |
| 19 | What is clear in this exhibition are the changing attitudes towards and perceptions of childhood by adults who control and order where they can seem to have an aim of accurate recall . |