Example sentences of "seem to have [verb] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was disquieting , though , the way he seemed to have to make these excuses to himself , as if his conscience which he had , so he thought at the age of sixteen , successfully buried , had suddenly reawakened to plague him , not about the fundamentals of belief and morality but about such comparative trivialities as whether or not one should attend the church bazaar . |
| 2 | Around the middle of the fourth century Christians seem to have observed these traditional festivals along with their own ; some ancient celebrations kept their appeal for centuries . |
| 3 | Indeed , the publisher seems to have recognised these shortcomings of the first issue , and claims that the brief of the journal is being broadened . |
| 4 | And it seems to have given these madmen the idea of producing a biological version , capable of creating a world indistinguishable — indistinguishable , I ask you , ye Gods ! — from reality . |
| 5 | Selection by the different avifaunas seems to have generated these infraspecific differences and the tree species survive in both islands . |
| 6 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 7 | Passelewe seems to have used these inquiries as proceedings preliminary to the Forest Eyre itself , as when he sat at Gloucester in January 1248 . |
| 8 | The almost complete lack of response , one way or the other , from the Masai , only seems to have encouraged these fantasies , because it provided an environment in which fantasy was rarely tested against reality . |