Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He got better — went back to the Fire Service , ’ she said , but Eileen 's innocent remark seemed to have touched some nerve which made her say bitterly , ‘ He went back to scrimping and saving to keep his horrible wife in comfort in a nursing home . |
| 2 | The salesman and Hank , however , seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office , where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender . |
| 3 | What excited them even more was that , surprisingly , no one seemed to have followed this idea up ( and indeed no one had , as B. Mamyrin confirmed in 1989 ) . |
| 4 | But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned . |
| 5 | She wanted to move away from him , but she seemed to have lost all sensation in her limbs . |
| 6 | The train was still moving between stations but the twins seemed to have lost all interest in knowing how long it took and relaying this information to the rest of the carriage . |
| 7 | She seemed to have lost some sense that events could be controlled or hopefully directed . |
| 8 | Keynesianism seemed to have banished mass unemployment for ever and wage rises seemed as natural and regular as the tides . |
| 9 | His eyes seemed to have gathered more gold from somewhere … |
| 10 | I seemed to have missed some mail lately , my sister kept asking me whether I had n't received her letters . " |
| 11 | However , it did draw attention to an important point that seemed to have eluded positivist correctionalism : crime does not have a blanket , objective status that enables us automatically to be against it regardless of what ‘ it ’ is . |
| 12 | Louise was so animated by now that she seemed to have forgotten that morning 's funeral . |
| 13 | After all , Charles never seemed to have held much regard for Christian morality and marriage laws , and certainly was not likely to let papal complaints and rhetoric alter his decisions . |
| 14 | They seemed to have brought another world into the shop . |
| 15 | And now , eighteen years afterwards , in a poorly attended North London church of hideous architecture and amid clouds of strong incense , he seemed to have regained that faith . |
| 16 | As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine . |
| 17 | Not many seem to have escaped this type of harassment . |
| 18 | Functional studies have provided evidence of macrophage activation : isolated mononuclear cells from the colonic mucosa of inflammatory bowel disease patients seem to have enhanced antigen-presenting activity , increased ability to undergo respiratory burst , ability to stimulate immunoglobulin scretion , and to release the specific secretory products , lysozyme and interleukin 1Β . |
| 19 | ( ii ) The words map and mapping seem to have gained greater favour in algebra than the word function ; from Chapter 3 on we shall almost invariably use one of these two words . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The uprising of 1848 gave them an opportunity to alter their status , but they did not take it and by and large seem to have accepted that industrialisation meant inevitable Germanisation . |
| 22 | The authorities seem to have adopted that slogan of the insurance company . |
| 23 | ‘ I seem to have done some shop-lifting ’ ? |
| 24 | They do not , however , seem to have possessed any programme for the betterment of lay society . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Although , fortunately up to now , I never seem to have had many health problems with using opiates . |