Example sentences of "seem to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , such claims do seem to have force when fitted to the case of the writer who is making or mediating them . |
| 2 | STUDYING the West Coast of Scotland from the yacht Britannia , the Queen is said to have remarked , not long ago , that the people there did n't seem to have much of a life . |
| 3 | Ophelia is often ignored for audition material simply because she does n't seem to have much in the way of a sustained speech until she goes mad . |
| 4 | ‘ You do seem to have an eye for essentials . ’ |
| 5 | In light rain I have measured an increase of about 8 knots in the speed for the pre-stall buffet and stall of a K13 , although the stall itself did not seem to have changed in character . |
| 6 | Even though it does seem to have taken over the house a bit . ’ |
| 7 | Much of our thinking would seem to have a more-or-less pictorial character , after all . |
| 8 | The above definition may at first seem to have little to do with a choreographer 's work . |
| 9 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |
| 10 | Young academics and critics do not seem to have had the same difficulty , or if they do , are not letting on . |
| 11 | He does not seem — and this is a crazy thing to say in the face of his beautiful verse , to appear ungrateful for it — but I say it , he does not seem to have inhabited his own experience . |
| 12 | But just do n't seem to have the time or even the energy ? |
| 13 | And while he has successfully offended the doctrinaire Protestants , he does not seem to have pleased the Pope . |
| 14 | He does not seem to have noticed that the United States federal system is inherent in the constitution which those who joined the federation accepted on clearly defined terms . |
| 15 | After the last rise in base rates , all sources of advice to the Chancellor do seem to have taken the view through the summer that the squeeze was working . |
| 16 | Unlike most other musicians , he did not seem to have been impressed by Louis Armstrong 's seminal appearance at the London Palladium in 1932 . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the fact that Saatchi has been prepared to offend so many dealers and artists does seem to have seriously damaged his credibility in the art world . |
| 18 | While the prices of average properties have followed the normal pattern , there does seem to have been a shift in the relative values of ‘ up-market ’ or ‘ prime ’ properties . |
| 19 | But in the same way that the sexual act is losing its meaning , in pub scene , or baroque interior , or city flat , with the result that we are brought to question whatever meaning it once may seem to have possessed , so in The Waste Land the rituals of religion appear also to be failing . |
| 20 | Though the authorities do not seem to have been aware of the scale and significance of capital flows within the sterling area , they were aware that the exchange controls in that area were not all that London hoped . |
| 21 | Her early school reports were peppered with comments , complimentary or judgemental , depending on the teacher : ‘ Margaret has a very active imagination ’ , ‘ Margaret must learn not to go off into day-dreams ’ , ‘ Margaret does not yet seem to have learned the difference between fact and fiction ’ . |
| 22 | By contrast , on the other side of the equator , there are societies , such as some of the traditional pre-colonial Southern African states which though they have pastoralism and agriculture , do not seem to have had slavery . |
| 23 | We were invited to drive the cars in west Germany where the smooth road surface always flatters cars ' suspensions , but even when we nipped into what used to be east Germany and drove on roads that did not seem to have been maintained since the war , the G40 's bump suppression was admirable . |
| 24 | The practice does take place in the Church of Ireland , though as it happened , it did not seem to have come Lewis 's way at St Mark 's , Dundela . |
| 25 | The company 's head of production , Walter Mycroft , had been a founding member of the Film Society , but he does n't seem to have had very much interest in nurturing talent . |
| 26 | Only periodically does Mr Tebbit seem to have looked to Powell as a politician who could express some of his gnawing doubts about the Heath government . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't seem to have much control of your god-daughter . ’ |
| 28 | In vetoing repeated efforts by the state legislature to adopt the death penalty ( it is still one vote short of a veto override ) , Mr Cuomo has taken the moral high ground — and does not seem to have lost votes by doing so . |
| 29 | But she did n't seem to have heard . |
| 30 | He did n't seem to have the comforts of other men . |