Example sentences of "do seem to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases , one suspects that dealers are simply jealous of Gagosian for getting Saatchi 's business , but in others there do seem to be justifiable grievances . |
| 2 | A few people do seem to be able to remember everything ( they have ‘ photographic memories ’ ) but this can often lead to remembering a mass of unwanted material and so things have to be actively ‘ unremembered ’ . |
| 3 | You do seem to be fortunate in going to Sandgate . |
| 4 | They do seem to be lasting awfully well . |
| 5 | As it happens , cases have been reported recently in which animals do seem to be able to recognize their relatives as such , but that is another story . |
| 6 | ‘ It would be wrong to say we are over-run with Japanese visitors — there 's plenty of room and welcome for visitors from every country — but their numbers do seem to be increasing , ’ said Dr Robert Woof , 60 , director of the Wordsworth Trust . |
| 7 | Palm sanders are not a new phenomenon , but they do seem to be growing in popularity , certainly with the trade buyer . |
| 8 | Obviously … although Johnny Marr 's two main obsessions in life do seem to be Rickenbackers and Brian Jones haircuts . |
| 9 | It 's not just that we 're going to write articles about EastEnders , but what we 're interested in is EastEnders , The Bill , Brookside , because a lot of people actually watch these programmes , and there is clearly a way in which programmes do seem to be referencing each other and dealing with similar topics . |
| 10 | Some librarians do seem to be less concerned with the size of their collections , and more interested in access to them by users . |
| 11 | You really do seem to be trying to have your cake and eat it ; being anti-cruise , anti-Thatcher , anti-Foot , anti-SDP/Liberal Alliance and anti-CND-all at the same time ! |
| 12 | The New York has a rosewood fingerboard which is well up to usual Eggle standards ; they really do seem to be consistently good across the entire range . |
| 13 | After reading an article in your recent issue regarding older knitting machines , I would be interested to know if any of your readers could supply me with the correct manual for the KH585 as there do seem to be some differences in the controls of the two models . |
| 14 | Raiding the fridge is not a gender-linked activity , but cravings do seem to be more common in women . |
| 15 | Placards do seem to be in vogue at the moment : there is a pastiche of Bob Dylan 's ‘ Subterranean Homesick Blues ’ lyrics-on-cards promo film in Bob Roberts and super photographer Steven Meisel used slogans on white cards in a recent celebrity shoot for Italian Vogue . |
| 16 | There do seem to be some grounds for their complaint . |
| 17 | Associations of this kind do seem to be made folklinguistically . |
| 18 | Things really do seem to be looking up , and we can now discount all those gloom-merchants who assured us it would all be over before Christmas . |
| 19 | In functional terms there do seem to be storage facilities relatively near the entry channels through the senses , those for the visual and auditory systems are called respectively the iconic store and the echoic store ( Wickens , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | This is an important difference as physical abuse and neglect do seem to be associated with social , material and environmental stress and hence seem to be related to social class . |
| 21 | In this respect at least family responsibilities do seem to be very different for women and men , both as givers and receivers . |
| 22 | Moreover , even if particular impulses are not mainly directed at pleasure , the typical ones do seem to be directed at the occurrence of certain states of ourselves , so that even if not hedonistic they are egoistic . |
| 23 | The jobs that do seem to be safe are those of top management : an official familiar with the agenda for next week 's board meeting said that it does n't include any discussion of personnel changes involving John Akers or any other executive . |
| 24 | Though we do seem to be doing quite well in numbers . |
| 25 | These young men — sanguine , bold , resourceful and opportunist as they are — do seem to be cut from the same cloth . |
| 26 | Oh dear , the wheels really do seem to be coming off Ollie at the moment . |
| 27 | No doubt chart-reading skills would also improve in an actual situation , but there do seem to be some serious difficulties in understanding how the numbers are related in the table . |
| 28 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |
| 29 | ‘ But they do seem to be a long way off . |
| 30 | There do seem to be some concerns which recur throughout the interviews and seemed to be crucial to people 's views about decision-making in the education and lives of young disabled people . |