Example sentences of "seems have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Somebody seems to have scored a hundred runs and been the hero of the school . ’
2 One brand new product that seems to have scored a huge hit at the recent MacWorld show is Adobe 's Illustrator .
3 No parish seems to have achieved a full choral response .
4 With the advent of punk music in 1977 I transferred my energies and enthusiasm from the military and spent a lot of time dressing up and putting Vaseline in my hair , much to the annoyance of my house master , a quiet Benedictine who wrote on my term report , ‘ Christian seems to have developed a nihilistic attraction for punk rock , which is strange for somebody who avoids violence even on the rugby field .
5 SPENNYMOOR-BASED Yvonne Bell seems to have discovered a top hurdler in Devlins Paddy .
6 Richard also seems to have felt a special devotion for the shrine of Bury St Edmund 's — he may well have been attracted by a cult which celebrated a king who died in the struggle against pagans .
7 Although Andrews was convinced that his minister had conspired against him , Brooke seems to have played a passive role in the 1943 crisis , refusing to lead a party revolt , and becoming prime minister almost by default .
8 Forrester seems to have played a lovely game , or so we are told by the Sunday tabloids .
9 The varied conditions over the week , biasing towards the lighter end , had given the sailors a good range without the Swedish walkover which seems to have become a regular feature of late .
10 Although the king from time to time forbade ‘ puture ’ — the contributions in money and in kind exacted by the foresters — the levying of puture seems to have become a general practice at least by the fourteenth century .
11 It 's really about time we tackled Manuela , who seems to have become a recurring reference point in this story .
12 Industry seems to have become a driving force of strident activity , against which background human beings , the miners , are " like shadows " .
13 Feargal seems to have said a great deal .
14 Despite the occasional brush with the law ( ‘ obstructing the police ’ in Vienna ) , Mr Rossi seems to have led a laudatory ( for a man of his calling ) existence — save for the fact that he bears no little responsibility in influencing the progeny of working people to attire themselves in tent material .
15 Ever since , he seems to have led a near-monastic existence .
16 However , in early days he seems to have led a sunny existence .
17 Remarkably , Vlasov 's integrity seems to have made a genuine impression on his Nazi captors .
18 Despite his remark that ‘ The superego seems to have made a one-sided choice and to have picked out only the parents ’ strictness and severity , their prohibiting and punitive function , whereas their loving care seems not to have been taken over and maintained , ’ he states elsewhere that ‘ The superego fulfils the same function of protecting and saving that was fulfilled in earlier days by the father . ’
19 This factor seems to have made a solid contribution towards forging the Iranian forces into a much more effective fighting machine than might have been expected in 1979 .
20 He claims that after his departure no one seems to have made a serious effort to keep workers informed on the dangers of the process , and especially of the need to cool it .
21 ‘ Well , he seems to have made a complete balls of it , ’ said Sir Harry .
22 Paul Hernon 's costumes feature several vivid patchwork quilts for the nobility ( though one seems to have made a pioneering landfall from The Mikado ) and others suggest cousinship with Little Plum .
23 Like the aristocracy , therefore , the Church could count on its urban mob , and in the riots of 1766 the Orders were accused of releasing this urban clientèle against a reforming administration ; Aranda , the most conspicuous of Charles III 's anti-clerical ministers , called to power to deal with the rioters , seems to have planned a serious attack on poverty precisely because he feared the influence of a Church with a monopoly of outdoor relief .
24 Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear .
25 Riva seems to have undergone a total physical transformation — her hair is cropped short , and her long , full skirt is wrapped round her legs like a strange pair of baggy breeches .
26 The patient ( Uma Thurman ) seems to have undergone a severe childhood trauma ; the sister ( Kim Basinger ) is married to a handsome Greek gangster ( Eric Roberts ) and runs amok at the least taste of alcohol .
27 Hope , who at that time was MP for Maidstone , seems to have conducted a solitary campaign in the House of Commons to keep the subject alive .
28 In some schools , at any rate , this seems to have performed a rhetorical function in conforming to the guidelines , rather than producing a realistic statement of an established and developing provision .
29 The fact remains that the debate on contemporary art seems to have entered a new dimension , with doubt being cast wholesale on the quality and content of recent trends , and on the good faith of the public institutions which give them space .
30 Cannon J. , who delivered his judgment in French , seems to have taken a wider view since he reached the same conclusion without reliance on the maxims of the civil law or the Quebec civil code : ‘ On peut dire que son droit est né en même temps qu'elle . ’
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