Example sentences of "seem to have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot hailed from St Louis , but the Eliots there seem to have regarded themselves as Bostonian and Unitarian missionaries to that mid-western Philistia . |
| 2 | As we have already suggested , Jesus 's brother James , and the other members of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem , seem to have regarded their evangelising as a form of recruitment — a means whereby an army for the nation of Israel might be created . |
| 3 | A number of different factors seem to have contributed to this extensive scale of decentralization from the major metropolitan areas , including changes in residential preferences and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less organized labour such as married women . |
| 4 | Despite the interest of some well-known industrialists , manufacturers as a group seem to have contributed only in proportion to their weight in the population . |
| 5 | So from the mid century onwards many working-class women seem to have retreated into the home , and by the end of the nineteenth century a conscious ideology was constructing the role of housewife and mother . |
| 6 | We used to have lots of friends but they all seem to have gone now . ’ |
| 7 | I used to suffer from spots , but they seem to have gone in the last year or two , I 'm thankful to say . |
| 8 | Creatures often seem to have gone out of their way to find him and display themselves to him . |
| 9 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 10 | The new theorists seem to have gone the same way because of ideological conservatism , or fatalism about what is possible . |
| 11 | I seem to have gone into this exactly the same somehow . |
| 12 | We seem to have gone down rather well at the venues we performed in , and have already received requests to do a repeat performance for Children in Need next year — perhaps I could get LASMO emblazoned on the front of my costume then ! ’ |
| 13 | Both the proposed Crickhowell and Builth Wells by-passes seem to have gone into hibernation . |
| 14 | I used to , I think , but since I met you and saw what she was likely to turn into , I seem to have gone off her . |
| 15 | Things seem to have gone well for them . |
| 16 | Right we seem to have gone back to subject four there do n't we , eh where are we now ? |
| 17 | seem to have gone down the drain a bit . |
| 18 | Recent incidents and events on the environmental stage — beginning , at least in Europe , with the explosion at the Chernobyl reactor — seem to have reawakened that ancient fear of nature 's retribution that so haunted our hunting and gathering ancestors . |
| 19 | This suggests substantial modification to past practices which seem to have involved fairly rigid directives or administratively complex individual project schemes . |
| 20 | Unfortunately it is not , though recent breakthroughs in cultivating malaria parasites in vitro and in isolating specific antibodies seem to have increased the chances of success . |
| 21 | But rather than reducing the amount of such sliding , modern ideas seem to have increased it , for olistostromes are now recognised in all parts of the succession , autochthonous as well as allochthonous . |
| 22 | These seem to have increased in number since the Support Services Review , and some have only tangential relevance ( if any ) to the sorts of enquiries which my staff can routinely handle . |
| 23 | Demons of unbelief , demons responsible for masturbation , demons responsible for unhappiness and depression , demons that control our cities — all these and many more seem to have popped up with alarming regularity in recent years . |
| 24 | Parents seem to have abdicated ; schools and colleges also fail in this task . |
| 25 | In recent years the band seem to have diverted themselves on to projects like ‘ God In Three Persons ’ and ‘ The King And Eye ’ . |
| 26 | Otherwise members seem to have exhibited a fairly normal range of personality and most seem to have been socially well-adjusted despite the extremism of their anti-semitic views . |
| 27 | Yet it is one with which both hysterics and anorexics seem to have concurred overtly , while rebelling , often despite themselves , by the only means available to them . |
| 28 | ‘ Moreover , ’ Corbett added , ‘ you seem to have answered your own questions . |
| 29 | Other countries seem to have recognised the need to give the police full investigative powers as well as treating hacking simpliciter as a relatively serious offence . ’ |
| 30 | Some of the largest marsupials ( Diprotodon ) seem to have survived to a time tantalisingly close to the present . |