Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] seem to have [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet all her precautions do not seem to have prevented the 26-year-old woman from abduction . |
| 2 | Attempts at ‘ objectivity ’ — a major premise of the sociological method — may reduce many obvious biases , but they do not seem to have affected the deeply ingrained bias of sexism . |
| 3 | Young academics and critics do not seem to have had the same difficulty , or if they do , are not letting on . |
| 4 | Colliers probably , and metal miners possibly , were among groups who do not seem to have experienced the widespread fall in real earnings after 1760 . |
| 5 | Both may be guessing , although the Encomiast is reasonably well-informed on the campaigns late in Æthelred II's reign , and William 's report of mixed methods need not be far wrong , even if it is a guess ; the armies which troubled England over the long period between c.985 and 1016 do often seem to have comprised the warbands of a number of men , are unlikely to have been organised and commanded solely by Danish kings , did not consist entirely of Danes , and frequently appear to have been motivated mainly by a desire for booty . |
| 6 | While the Macintosh and PC both have a number of data base programs in common ; Ashton Tate 's dBASE and Blyth Omnis/Crystal being the best supported , the software houses do n't seem to have kept the products quite as similar as they might have done . |
| 7 | And I 'm effectively shut up because I 've been kicked out of my job and a ] so because you do n't seem to have heard a word I 've been saying . ’ |
| 8 | I say I 'll be back by lunch-time , but I ca n't tell if she believes me , because she do n't seem to have heard a word I said . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't seem to have made a brilliant start so far — getting lost and being late on my first day must be something of a record ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't seem to have had a lot to smile about just lately . |
| 11 | I do n't seem to have had a choice . |
| 12 | Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do . |