Example sentences of "seem to have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine . |
2 | Insp Barry said : ‘ It would be easy to blame the parents , but they seem to have made reasonable efforts to bring him up properly . |
3 | 130 and H167 seem to have made good starts , but Z114 better watch out since before long he may be in H167 's dirty wind . |
4 | Not many seem to have escaped this type of harassment . |
5 | Functional studies have provided evidence of macrophage activation : isolated mononuclear cells from the colonic mucosa of inflammatory bowel disease patients seem to have enhanced antigen-presenting activity , increased ability to undergo respiratory burst , ability to stimulate immunoglobulin scretion , and to release the specific secretory products , lysozyme and interleukin 1Β . |
6 | The great majority of English people seem to have moved short distances at some time or other . |
7 | Open OLTP monitors , including IBM 's CICS/6000 , NCR 's TopEnd , AT&T 's Tuxedo and Transarc 's Encina , will be supported as part of the X/A Distributed Transaction support — no matter that few customers seem to have built many applications in anger with such products , Sybase says it just loves standards to death these days ! |
8 | Open transaction processing monitors , including IBM 's CICS/6000 , NCR 's TopEnd , Unix System Laboratories Inc 's Tuxedo and Transarc Inc 's Encina , will be supported as part of the X/A Distributed Transaction Support — no matter that few customers seem to have built many applications in anger with such products , Sybase says it just loves standards to death these days ! |
9 | Such was the powerful rhetoric of Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that the very conducting habits in Paris which they denigrated in the mid-18th century seem to have affected all views about practice during the following decades . |
10 | ( ii ) The words map and mapping seem to have gained greater favour in algebra than the word function ; from Chapter 3 on we shall almost invariably use one of these two words . |
11 | Certainly Constanze and Wolfgang seem to have gained more satisfaction from their marital relationship than from parenthood : on two occasions they abandoned a newly born baby to the mercies of a wet-nurse while they undertook a prolonged journey ; and , while Mozart occasionally refers affectionately to his eldest son in his letters , the little boy was sent away to school as soon as possible , presumably to give his father some peace to work . |
12 | The uprising of 1848 gave them an opportunity to alter their status , but they did not take it and by and large seem to have accepted that industrialisation meant inevitable Germanisation . |
13 | The authorities seem to have adopted that slogan of the insurance company . |
14 | However , many of the severest critics of the RAWP formula seem to have adopted fallacious lines of argument . |
15 | ‘ I seem to have done some shop-lifting ’ ? |
16 | Some of the larger stations aspired to considerable distinction , and Canadian railway architects seem to have favoured rounded features as a dominant element in their stations . |
17 | They do not , however , seem to have possessed any programme for the betterment of lay society . |
18 | Although a number of deaf people , especially in London , Coventry and Southampton lost their homes , deaf institutes , churches and schools seem to have received more damage . |
19 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
20 | Although men who were retained for life by a great magnate had an obligation to serve him in peace and war , and although there is little evidence about how the sub-contractors recruited their troops , neither the magnate captains nor their sub-contractors seem to have encountered much difficulty in persuading men to serve . |
21 | Various threatened vested interests seem to have designed this portrayal specifically to discourage any honest , in depth inquiry into the actual tenets of the field . |
22 | Service If it all stopped there you 'd still be left with a very capable and complete utility , but the people at Rupp seem to have taken another class of user into consideration — the user who wants to ‘ dock ’ a portable into a desktop setup and use its drives and printers in a sort of client/server networking fashion . |
23 | Fitzwilliam 's brothers-in-law also seem to have had ducal connections , although these are more tenuous . |
24 | Fitzwilliam 's brothers-in-law also seem to have had ducal connections , although these are more tenuous . |
25 | Although , fortunately up to now , I never seem to have had many health problems with using opiates . |
26 | But once ashore , others seem to have had little difficulty in establishing new homes . |
27 | In economic terms they seem to have had little effect : in Merseyside , for instance , which has had every new scheme , economic decline has not even been halted , let alone reversed . |
28 | Generally , the small Wealden farmers seem to have had little incentive or commitment to improvement . |
29 | In some cases , though , reports seem to have had little impact , and in many others their effects are difficult to assess . |
30 | By contrast , the English seem to have had fewer ships at this period , although Edward III had some royal ships , and vessels were built for largely defensive purposes . |