Example sentences of "[noun pl] do seem " in BNC.

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1 Parties and camcorders do seem to go well together , and it 's not difficult to think of reasons why .
2 As it happens , cases have been reported recently in which animals do seem to be able to recognize their relatives as such , but that is another story .
3 It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself .
4 Certain patterns of goals do seem to push people into certain jobs .
5 Whilst much work remains to be done , energy anomalies do seem to exist at prehistoric sites .
6 However , some judges do seem prepared to accept that the public are now more aware of character merchandising and there may be a change in this aspect of passing-off before too long .
7 Placards do seem to be in vogue at the moment : there is a pastiche of Bob Dylan 's ‘ Subterranean Homesick Blues ’ lyrics-on-cards promo film in Bob Roberts and super photographer Steven Meisel used slogans on white cards in a recent celebrity shoot for Italian Vogue .
8 Pug people say their club is classless , but the dogs do seem to attract a certain kind of owner .
9 In this respect at least family responsibilities do seem to be very different for women and men , both as givers and receivers .
10 Changes do seem to occur remarkably steadily .
11 James May , who heads an advisory service , says small businesses do seem to get a raw deal .
12 But since some writers do seem to have an aversion to the hyphen — just as they have lost the art of splitting words in the logical places ( tran-sport , winds-creen , ins-pector , screwd-river , etc ) — let them run them together for clarity .
13 Er the project resources sheet erm again th th the erm it 's identify erm the quantities do seem about right .
14 With regard to fees , earnings and profitability , the 1982 reforms do seem to have exerted some , albeit limited , downward pressure .
15 None the less , some things do seem clear : the unlikelihood of more baby booms , except for weaker echoes of the present one , and a generally lower level of fertility .
16 Things do seem to work in this world .
17 There is nothing very new about it all Alf Ramsey was hounded out despite winning the World Cup , while Don Revie , Ron Greenwood and Bobby Robson came in for vilification but things do seem to be getting worse .
18 Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals .
19 It is interesting to note that the movements of the real exchange rates do seem to move around the level appropriate to a purchasing power parity explanation .
20 Bus use rates do seem to vary .
21 Raiding the fridge is not a gender-linked activity , but cravings do seem to be more common in women .
22 When child killers appear in court , newspapers do seem to resist from giving many of the more gruesome details of the tragedy .
23 These four themes do seem to highlight some important features of support within families : how it operates and its meaning to people who participate .
24 But by and large when we take out these very unusual or exceptional years , agricultural prices do seem to have fallen .
25 It 's not just that we 're going to write articles about EastEnders , but what we 're interested in is EastEnders , The Bill , Brookside , because a lot of people actually watch these programmes , and there is clearly a way in which programmes do seem to be referencing each other and dealing with similar topics .
26 and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest .
27 The Law Society has in force strict regulations ( a summary of which may be found in Chapter 12 ) regarding clients ' money and trust money , though infractions of the relevant rules do seem to occur with depressing frequency .
28 Patterns of disruption and reconstitution of kin groups do seem very different now by comparison with the past .
29 Two points do seem in order .
30 While nothing definitive can be concluded from such meagre data , the fact that such examples do seem to suggest different impressions than the to infinitive to speakers of various dialects indicates that they deserve closer attention , especially in the light of a further examination of the passive voice .
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