Example sentences of "seems have [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even her Minoan name , Britomartis , or ‘ Sweet Virgin' , seems to have survived in a slightly spoonerized form in the later Greek name , Artemis . |
| 2 | DeFreitas , when not ill , was also off beam , while Malcolm 's errant unpredictability seems to have declined into a corridor of mundane certainty . |
| 3 | It is also worth noting that after his death he seems to have remained as a hero in folk memory . |
| 4 | He seems to have taught for a while , but already politics called him , and with his father 's support he took ship for France . |
| 5 | After this he seems to have retired for a time to his Scottish estates . |
| 6 | In logical terms , this is the reverse of the first , consecutive pattern , but like it , it seems to have emerged for a mixture of educational and other reasons . |
| 7 | Not only can no prehistoric or Roman nucleated settlement be found , but Saxon settlement in the area seems to have consisted of a scatter of farms ( vills or manors ) with an isolated church between them . |
| 8 | The move to the Inn on the Lake seems to have met with a favourable response from students ; the pub has been described as a ‘ nice place to work ’ . |
| 9 | In practice Mary seems to have ruled through a small group of office-holders , using the other councillors for service in the shires and for the provision of general political support . |
| 10 | Progress does not have a financial stake in Object Design as reported ( UX No 420 ) — confusion seems to have arisen over a plan under which Progress may take over all rights to Object Access . |
| 11 | Tabulation and presentation of long passages are again characteristic elements of this part , but detailed linguistic analysis seems to have yielded to a more abstract discussion in the style of traditional literary criticism . |
| 12 | No significant section of the marchers had formed a determination to defy the police , and the RUC , for its part , seems to have behaved in a generally good-natured way . |
| 13 | Nothing about the medal seems to have happened until a meeting of the governors on 2 August 1848 . |
| 14 | They also inevitably include such universally popular compositions as Dowland 's ‘ Lachrimae Pavin' which seems to have originated as a lute solo , been turned into a song ( ‘ FIow , my tears ’ ) , arranged for viol consort with six sequels in the 1605 book , and arranged for virginals by Byrd , Morley , and Farnaby . |
| 15 | Their skin was stretched out between long spines , which seems to have acted as a cooling radiator . |
| 16 | The revelation that the villagers recognised four types of diarrhoea seems to have come as a surprise to BRAC , suggesting insufficient research on the part of BRAC prior to launching its programme . |
| 17 | ‘ Little Violetta seems to have come as a bit of an afterthought . |
| 18 | ‘ It seems to have come as a shock to you , ’ he observed . |
| 19 | Free Range Egg production having taking off in the 80's , seems to have come to a halt , if all that we read and hear is true . |
| 20 | Also , habitation only seems to have lasted for a short time , and Aggersborg may never have been finished . |
| 21 | An 18th century mill-worker 's wooden object zipping through a loom seems to have evolved into a vehicle of space travel . |