Example sentences of "seem to have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parting you from Jones that time does n't seem to have curtailed your ongoing little adventure — not that I thought it would . ’ |
| 2 | They exchanged complicit smiles , and Loretta reflected that the end of the affair did not seem to have soured their friendship . |
| 3 | They do n't seem to have suffered . |
| 4 | The house next door , similar in style , did not seem to have suffered the same mutilation . |
| 5 | His kinsmen in Norway do n't seem to have suffered . |
| 6 | But this time he does seem to have hit rock bottom . |
| 7 | Some are published by Kenny McKenzie 's Taranis , an imprint which does not yet seem to have hit the Spring and Autumn Books numbers of The Bookseller . |
| 8 | On this evidence the loss of previous territorial gains by the Mercians would seem to have characterized Mercian-Welsh relations in the period before the building of Offa 's Dyke . |
| 9 | ‘ Regrettably , our ancestors of some thirty-five centuries back do n't seem to have given too much thought to posterity , by which I mean they left no records to satisfy their descendants ’ intellectual curiosity . |
| 10 | Because there was nothing in Clara 's past that would seem to have fitted her for such recognitions : she was not bred to it . |
| 11 | Yet all her precautions do not seem to have prevented the 26-year-old woman from abduction . |
| 12 | With regard to fees , earnings and profitability , the 1982 reforms do seem to have exerted some , albeit limited , downward pressure . |
| 13 | That just emphasised to me what a gulf there is between our sort of running and the shorter events , which the Board do n't seem to have recognised . ’ |
| 14 | Although at first sight the quotations reproduced above may seem to have said all that needs to be said , it will be worthwhile trying to specify exactly the mechanisms by which associative mediation theory generates the effects that need to be explained . |
| 15 | In the present context , the importance of the Mareva injunction lies in the associated order that there be disclosure of the nature and location of the assets covered by the injunction ( and possibly of other assets , though the courts do not seem to have gone this far ) and of documents relating to those assets . |
| 16 | There are many references to our caves but the writers do not seem to have gone beyond the entrances and we are left wondering what they are like inside and most importantly whether they were ever lived in , and if so , by whom . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've now had two further years when we do n't seem to have gone on from that . |
| 18 | At the Exchequer the use of reversions was to allow unqualified and inexperienced men into the department under James I ; but the deterioration does not seem to have begun before his accession . |
| 19 | The rule for raising before velars , however , is strong and active and does not seem to have begun to recede lexically : in word-list style ( which is usually considered to be formal ) it persists much more strongly than post-velar raising ; neologisms undergo the rule , and it affects spelling ( see the discussion of ‘ occasional spellings ’ below ) . |
| 20 | Fortunately their late arrival did not seem to have aroused the usual hostile chorus of hushing , the majority of the audience consisting of French soldiers who were far from particular about such matters . |
| 21 | But the truce does not seem to have aroused general opposition in England ; perhaps more serious in their implications for the regime were the disorders at Pontefract in the summer of 1323 , when a mob killed two officials guarding Lancaster 's tomb to prevent offerings being made there . |
| 22 | ‘ We do n't seem to have seen much of each other since … since the snows , Carrie . ’ |
| 23 | Whilst there was much talk of objects at the COSE initiative roll-out , firms associated with the effort do not yet seem to have decided if or how this playing field can be levelled , or whether basic object functionality is to be used to gain competitive advantage . |
| 24 | While there was much talk of objects at the Common Open Software Environment initiative roll-out , firms associated with the effort do not yet seem to have decided if or how this playing field can be levelled , or whether basic object functionality is to be used to gain competitive advantage . |
| 25 | He does not seem to have liked the personal and domestic habits of his former parishioners and also says " a dislike to continuous work prevails extensively among the working class " and " persons who live temporately have attained a good old age . " |
| 26 | He does not seem to have liked the personal and domestic habits of his former parishioners and also says " a dislike to continuous work prevails extensively among the working class " and " persons who live temporately have attained a good old age . " |
| 27 | In particular , the freedom since 1987 to advertise on radio and television does not seem to have exercised any discernible effect . |
| 28 | Even Gloucester 's attack on their inheritance , usually a sensitive issue with the political community , does not seem to have met with resistance . |
| 29 | Even Gloucester 's attack on their inheritance , usually a sensitive issue with the political community , does not seem to have met with resistance . |
| 30 | While the Macintosh and PC both have a number of data base programs in common ; Ashton Tate 's dBASE and Blyth Omnis/Crystal being the best supported , the software houses do n't seem to have kept the products quite as similar as they might have done . |