Example sentences of "[noun] seems to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shame at the hands of the Doctor parasite seems to have unhinged him . |
| 2 | When I tell him that Fairfax seems to have played a very big part in Claudia 's life , he does n't see any problem . |
| 3 | Ewan seems to have inherited the Foxcroft love of walking and never wants to turn back . |
| 4 | Similar optimism seems to have surrounded each new polymer to appear on the scene . |
| 5 | The full significance of the Danish vote seems to have escaped the immediate attention of most of the political leaders around Europe . |
| 6 | He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) . |
| 7 | It has also become evident from recent literature that there was nothing like a " simultaneous " extinction of many different groups , either within the brachiopods alone or within the organic world in general , at the end of the Permian ; I am told that plant spores , at least , still show an uncannily rapid change at this level all round the world , though the big change in plant macrofossils seems to have come much later . |
| 8 | An awful lot of research seems to have gone into nothing . |
| 9 | So far , one survey has clearly suggested that smoking makes the skin wrinkle sooner , but research seems to have stopped there . |
| 10 | The worst period of their poverty and exploitation in the United States seems to have occurred after the end of our period . |
| 11 | God the Shepherd seems to have become well-established within Christianity , but God the Housekeeper less so . |
| 12 | This agreement may have involved the ceding of border territory and Ine seems to have retained Surrey , referring to Eorcenwald , bishop of London , whose diocese included Surrey , as ‘ my bishop ’ in the preface to his laws . |
| 13 | ‘ Hyacinth seems to have gone mad . |
| 14 | At any rate Picasso seems to have realized , even before he began it , that it was to be no ordinary painting . |
| 15 | Richard seems to have played an important part in the peace and truce talks , and as he went to and fro between the armies his father may have begun to wonder just what these exchanges meant . |
| 16 | She was called Hodierna and Richard seems to have remembered her with affection . |
| 17 | The frequency of obstruction seems to have remained constant throughout the series even though there has been a tendency to use loop ilesostomy more sparingly with increasing experience . |
| 18 | Goudimel seems to have composed no more Latin church music after he embraced Protestantism c. 1560 . |
| 19 | Visions of The Blues Brothers ' rendition of Rawhide apart , this experience of running the gauntlet of various Texan styles seems to have benefited Winter … |
| 20 | Cuthbert 's oblique reference to Aldfrith in his reply seems to have satisfied her . |
| 21 | ‘ Come on in , Saturday seems to have started rather early this week . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Blenkinsop is being extremely co-operative , and while I admit that his conversion into an upright citizen seems to have come with indecent haste , nevertheless , he was oddly compelling . ’ |
| 23 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 24 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 25 | Selection by the different avifaunas seems to have generated these infraspecific differences and the tree species survive in both islands . |
| 26 | Nevertheless his action seems to have struck contemporaries as flouting legitimate filial expectations : there was a flagrant contrast with his treatment of his own 15-year old , Charles . |
| 27 | As you shoot the scene , you have to tread a tight-rope , avoiding the fault of holding a shot too long if the action seems to have dried up , while simultaneously avoiding the opposite fault of cutting shots too short just before something begins to happen . |
| 28 | Industry seems to have become a driving force of strident activity , against which background human beings , the miners , are " like shadows " . |
| 29 | ‘ Funnily enough , Gooseneck says that the only votes in his time were attempts to oust Fagg , but the majority of white balls was so immense that the opposition seems to have got discouraged and given up . ’ |
| 30 | Ergonomically , the layout is hard to fault but the space allocated for the otherwise clear and attractive instrumentation seems to have shrunk — it would have been far better to have the computer readout under the dials instead of the heater controls — and we question the need for such extravagantly styled air vents . |