Example sentences of "seem to have [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed to have many roles , in reproduction , in blood vessels , in certain enzyme systems , and in the activity of nerves . |
| 2 | And in spite of , or perhaps because of , this framework , they all seemed to have such fun , such carefree , girlish fun . |
| 3 | While media seemed to have little influence on driving behaviour , both groups of drivers felt that it showed cars in an unrealistic light — only seven percent thought otherwise . |
| 4 | This was an important mission , yet they had sent him a minor police official who seemed to have little standing or influence . |
| 5 | Amber , however , seemed to have little consideration for Lucien or what was considered sacred . |
| 6 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 7 | ‘ These young jet lads seemed to have little respect even for their parents . |
| 8 | His mother , preoccupied with paying the bills , seemed to have little time and energy for her children — particularly Graham who , as the only boy , was a bitter reminder of her husband . |
| 9 | The phenomenal rise in venereal diseases and the performance of abortions ‘ for social reasons ’ were two of the unintended consequences of sexual hedonism which nevertheless seemed to have little effect on sexual behaviour . |
| 10 | When in the 1880s , anxiety about the question grew more acute , and when exhortation to society members not to instruct " female learners " or to allow their daughters to take up the trade seemed to have little effect , more organized attempts were made to confront the problem . |
| 11 | Equally , the degree of unionisation of the workforce seemed to have little impact on the personnel practices of manufacturing establishments in their use either of fixed-term contract workers or agency workers . |
| 12 | A salt watchman was paid a salary of £15 per annum , while a tidesman was paid £20 , so on the face of it Main seemed to have little cause for complaint . |
| 13 | This picked up language used in earlier Hague Conventions ; given the establishment of the Central Authority system , this provision seemed to have little point , as the Rapporteur himself admitted . |
| 14 | We never seemed to have much trouble anyway . |
| 15 | Erm , I do n't know how they live , yet they always seemed to have enough money you know . |
| 16 | She told me she made a point of taking a walk each day to get out of the way of all the old people , but I was reassured when I saw that she was well-known at the café and seemed to have several friends among its patrons . |
| 17 | I always thought I had a good appetite , but I remember being at a college feast once at Cambridge , where they had seven or eight courses and the elderly dons seemed to have less trouble than anyone else getting through it . |
| 18 | Mind you , Richard Hannay in John Buchan 's The Thirty-Nine Steps planned his route because people were trying both to kill him and lock him up , and he still seemed to have some fun . |
| 19 | Both she and Lucy seemed to have some kind of thing for breasts . |
| 20 | He seemed to have some fellow-feeling with its weariness . |
| 21 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
| 22 | He had joined the Institute in his first year at the Establishment because at that time the organisation seemed to have some sinew to it . |
| 23 | Although the pharmacist seemed to have some trouble deciphering the prescription , and Henry had to go through a nerve-wracking pantomime of ignorance about the nature of the chemicals he required , it was n't long before he was standing once again on the doorstep of 54 Maple Drive . |
| 24 | ‘ You seemed to have some trouble with that mattress downstairs , ’ the housekeeper remarked . |
| 25 | The unit seemed to have some effect . |
| 26 | At last the ‘ special relationship ’ seemed to have some meaning , perhaps for the first time since the days of Macmillan . |
| 27 | She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless … |
| 28 | He was a legit , braceleted , but he never seemed to have any money , and somehow he seemed to avoid the gangs , legit and illegit , that roamed the upper Levels . |
| 29 | Neither of my parents seemed to have any friends , and tended to talk disparagingly of neighbours or colleagues . |
| 30 | Nobody seemed to have any doubt that Pencader would trounce his rivals on his debut at Newbury last month . |