Example sentences of "[noun pl] seems [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Visions of The Blues Brothers ' rendition of Rawhide apart , this experience of running the gauntlet of various Texan styles seems to have benefited Winter … |
| 3 | Selection by the different avifaunas seems to have generated these infraspecific differences and the tree species survive in both islands . |
| 4 | In all humanities disciplines the use of computers seems to have passed through three stages , each corresponding roughly to a decade . |
| 5 | Homo sapiens sapiens seems to have replaced the Neanderthals in a few thousand years about 30000 years ago . |
| 6 | Little relative movement between the Indian and Eurasian Plates seems to have occurred between the Middle Eocene and Early Miocene , but isostatic readjustment of the presumably thickened crust resulted in a withdrawal of the sea on the adjacent Indian continental lowland . |
| 7 | By the mid-nineteen fifties many Orcadians had begun the task of modernizing their homes by building new ones a process which over the past three decades seems to have gone on with ever increasing frenzy . |
| 8 | The row over fibre glass figures adourning buildings seems to have moved from Oxford to Birmingham . |
| 9 | The number of institutions in London which can reasonably be considered private banks seems to have doubled in the fifty years between 1725 and 1775 to reach fifty-two . |
| 10 | The early opposition to the presence of foreign troops seems to have receded , partly because the soldiers have kept out of sight : with no bars or visible girls , there is no way of turning Dhahran into Saigon . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the company 's entry into the largely unchartered bagged sector with Strollers seems to have got off to a fair start . |
| 12 | His intellectual approach to the management of human resources seems to have made matters worse . |
| 13 | Editor , — The number of advertisements in the BMJ for staff grade positions seems to have increased in recent months . |
| 14 | Emotional trauma — The detailed results of the social evaluation will be reported elsewhere , but so far only one of the nine families seems to have experienced an above average level of emotional trauma . |
| 15 | The fact that lapis lazuli seems to have appeared first in north Mesopotamia rather than south argues that the Sumerians got their supplies by way of Iran rather than by the Indus and the sea route . |
| 16 | This claim illuminates one of the recurrent features of the military history of the period ; the frequent presence of the men of one civitas or another on campaign , above all during the civil wars which bedevilled the second half of the sixth century , when rivalry between cities seems to have exacerbated problems . |
| 17 | The earlier period of about 24 hours seems to have resulted from the observation that the elusive surface markings of Mercury lay in roughly the same positions on consecutive nights . |
| 18 | What is more , the Roman plebs seems to have taken a special interest in Greek religious and moral notions . |
| 19 | To call it the " Cenomanian transgression " is something of an oversimplification , for it is often Albian or Turonian in age , but a major transgression at about the beginning of late Cretaceous times seems to have occurred almost all over the world . |
| 20 | His work with the Paul Motian , and John Scofield groups and his work in the Woody Herman , Charlie Haden and Mel Lewis big groups seems to have passed almost unnoticed . |
| 21 | The research on owls seems to have convinced a number of oil palm companies . |
| 22 | ( None of his half-brothers seems to have received anything like it . ) |
| 23 | Spectacular rises in corn prices encouraged landlords to evict in order to farm themselves , a process which led to the creation of despoblados ; middling tenants refused to sublet and a wave of rent rises seems to have started in the 1760's . |
| 24 | Currently , the balance of power over these decisions seems to have swung in the artist 's favour . |
| 25 | The single-sex environment of mid-nineteenth-century US women 's colleges seems to have provided a uniquely supportive environment for the first women psychologists , for example ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 ) . |
| 26 | Following an enforced climb-down by Palmerston over a scheme by Hall for military bands in the Royal Parks on Sundays , the cordiality between the two men seems to have evaporated , and on 13th October , 1856 , Palmerston sent Hall a blunt admonition over the Government Offices . |
| 27 | The fact that it is only at puberty that initiation occurs today and that it was only at this age that young males came to pose a threat to the peace and stability of early human societies seems to have had , quite apart from its evident social and psychological consequences , important physiological ones as well . |
| 28 | Frequently , some seasonal movement of stock between the forest and coastal marshes seems to have taken place . |
| 29 | Fellows seems to have acted in the sale of the Grand Union to the Grand Junction , for in a letter to the Grand Union he pointed out that the price would have to be realistic , bearing in mind that they were not dealing with a willing purchaser . |
| 30 | It was not a good year for them to start with , and this year 's explosion in grey squirrel numbers seems to have put paid to the few that did form . |