Example sentences of "[noun] seem to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Although a number of deaf people , especially in London , Coventry and Southampton lost their homes , deaf institutes , churches and schools seem to have received more damage .
2 The workings of cognitio seem to have continued much as before , so the beneficiary of a trust would remain able to obtain specific performance .
3 Erm we perceive no need at the present time for such an exception and the borough council seem to have accepted that .
4 Already the trade showed signs of becoming restricted to the immediate neighbourhood of Reading , whose clothiers seem to have controlled most of the output of Berkshire .
5 ‘ Yeah , ’ Lee laughs , ‘ most people in the know seem to have sussed that one .
6 The authorities seem to have adopted that slogan of the insurance company .
7 Government troops seem to have abandoned some positions quickly , while the KPNLF has avoided key garrisons .
8 Service If it all stopped there you 'd still be left with a very capable and complete utility , but the people at Rupp seem to have taken another class of user into consideration — the user who wants to ‘ dock ’ a portable into a desktop setup and use its drives and printers in a sort of client/server networking fashion .
9 Around the middle of the fourth century Christians seem to have observed these traditional festivals along with their own ; some ancient celebrations kept their appeal for centuries .
10 Ibanez seem to have taken another daring step in their continuing success story and come up trumps once again .
11 IN SPITE of their success with chilled lamb in some Scottish stores last year , New Zealand suppliers seem to have accepted this is little more than a coals to Newcastle exercise .
12 Open OLTP monitors , including IBM 's CICS/6000 , NCR 's TopEnd , AT&T 's Tuxedo and Transarc 's Encina , will be supported as part of the X/A Distributed Transaction support — no matter that few customers seem to have built many applications in anger with such products , Sybase says it just loves standards to death these days !
13 Open transaction processing monitors , including IBM 's CICS/6000 , NCR 's TopEnd , Unix System Laboratories Inc 's Tuxedo and Transarc Inc 's Encina , will be supported as part of the X/A Distributed Transaction Support — no matter that few customers seem to have built many applications in anger with such products , Sybase says it just loves standards to death these days !
14 Generally , the small Wealden farmers seem to have had little incentive or commitment to improvement .
15 The artists in the area seem to have seen much of each other .
16 In terms of feedback from the report , primary teachers seem to have had most and secondary teachers least .
17 Various threatened vested interests seem to have designed this portrayal specifically to discourage any honest , in depth inquiry into the actual tenets of the field .
18 However , with the comparatively recent revolution in geological views on the matter , and the promulgation of the theories of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading ( Ollier , 1981 ) , ocean basins seem to have become some of the less stable features of the earth 's crust .
19 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 .
20 Only two dimensions of cost seem to have received any systematic consideration early on — body bag numbers , and money .
21 In some cases , though , reports seem to have had little impact , and in many others their effects are difficult to assess .
22 But once ashore , others seem to have had little difficulty in establishing new homes .
23 Such was the powerful rhetoric of Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that the very conducting habits in Paris which they denigrated in the mid-18th century seem to have affected all views about practice during the following decades .
24 Certainly Constanze and Wolfgang seem to have gained more satisfaction from their marital relationship than from parenthood : on two occasions they abandoned a newly born baby to the mercies of a wet-nurse while they undertook a prolonged journey ; and , while Mozart occasionally refers affectionately to his eldest son in his letters , the little boy was sent away to school as soon as possible , presumably to give his father some peace to work .
25 Although men who were retained for life by a great magnate had an obligation to serve him in peace and war , and although there is little evidence about how the sub-contractors recruited their troops , neither the magnate captains nor their sub-contractors seem to have encountered much difficulty in persuading men to serve .
26 The Second International had been intellectually dominated by the German Social Democratic Party and the small British Socialist Party and Independent Labour Party seem to have accepted this without feeling bound to follow the directives of a single foreign party , let alone a government .
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