Example sentences of "seem have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Even a week of sitting there , supping in the beer by a kind of osmosis through the atmosphere , and eating solid sandwiches , seemed to have deposited a tiny roll of fat round his waist .
2 Øster wrote in the introduction to his paper that the publication of Gairdner 's article nearly 20 years earlier seemed to have made no significant impression on clinical practice .
3 Donaldson side-stepped to avoid two solicitors in conversation , youngish men who seemed to have made a conscious effort to propel themselves into a facsimile of late middle-age .
4 She seemed to have made a rapid improvement in health since I last saw her .
5 Generally , these cash buyers seemed to have made a fair assessment of their chances , in that they were unemployed or already had great difficulty matching small incomes to their outgoings .
6 He seemed to have clinched a seventh victory with his partner , Jean-Louis Schlesser , putting the icing on the cake of their shared world championship .
7 Yet in some strange way the bird seemed to have affected the easy relationship that had previously existed between them and , in trying to analyse her own feelings , Lucy knew that she now felt shy and rather embarrassed .
8 In his writings on the colonial situation in China and India , Marx was puzzled by the fact that , although both these countries seemed to have reached a higher state of civilization than Europe in earlier times , they were in his time being overtaken by Europe , as the colonial conquests showed .
9 By 1987 she and Charles seemed to have reached an all-time low , if not in their marriage , then certainly in the public 's perception of it .
10 Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter .
11 Les and Peg seemed to have uncovered a simple truth which has evaded so many of us .
12 Her emotions seemed to have undergone a deep sea-change over the last few hours .
13 Alexander seemed to have become a decisive proponent of reform .
14 The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward .
15 This seemed to have become a permanent condition .
16 Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs .
17 War seemed to have become an unusable tool of statecraft .
18 There were only a handful of other people in the library reference section ; the normal air of peace and quiet one would expect in such a place seemed to have become an unnatural silence .
19 Until last year Scotland seemed to have escaped the worst of the recession .
20 Not only did he order the apple pie and cream , but he also poured her yet another glass of wine — somehow she seemed to have drunk the other already !
21 When Russian forces finally retreated from the Danubian Principalities in 1834 , Nicholas seemed to have achieved the final stabilization of his southern frontier .
22 Controversy aside , the fact that Dykstra was called upon so often vouched for Rangers ' ascendancy but the Hateley/McCoist goal machine seemed to have developed a mechanical fault .
23 Among the main Democratic contenders Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton seemed to have overcome the recent spate of " character issues " which had threatened to destroy his candidacy , but finished second to the former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas in the New Hampshire contest .
24 Only three days and they seemed to have travelled a great distance .
25 At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it .
26 Everybody seemed to have bought a new dress for the occasion , and she had hardly finished paying for her suit .
27 It seemed to have lasted a long time and there had been no glory for me in it .
28 More to the point , the urgent message rushing from her brain to her feet seemed to have encountered an impassable landslide en route .
29 And in the September 1957 election the FDP seemed to have chosen the wrong course when its share of the vote fell below 8 per cent , whilst the CDU — strengthened by the 1957 pension reform — won just over half the votes cast .
30 His gargantuan repast seemed to have put The Fat Controller in a better mood and avuncularity seeped back into his tones the further we got away from the pizzeria .
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