Example sentences of "it seem have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |
| 2 | Spokesman Brian Adams explained : ‘ The historical society is one of the oldest clubs at Queen 's but for a long time it seemed to have fallen into a plodding routine . |
| 3 | It seemed to have swollen in her chest , huge and hot , and its painful drumming shook her frail body as if to burst it apart . |
| 4 | It seemed to have spread to his neck and down the right side of his back . |
| 5 | There was no mention of any such glass in an early twentieth-century description , and it seemed to have disappeared before a restoration of 1869 . |
| 6 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 7 | Rover it seems have broken through the motor industry gloom with a twenty five per cent increase in sales in stark contrast to its rivals . |
| 8 | This was not , in all probability , the intent of the statute : it seems to have arisen from concern expressed by the commons in parliament at the tendency of the judges in the 1340s to construe as usurpation of royal power , and thus treason , such offences as riot and highway robbery . |
| 9 | It seems to have arisen from the report of Levy-Agresti and Sperry ( 1968 ) that in a visuo-tactile matching task the two hemispheres of split-brain patients solved the problems in characteristically different ways . |
| 10 | The ‘ Thatcher revolution ’ has affected most areas of British life so it is perhaps surprising how little it seems to have impinged on the NHS . |
| 11 | In logical terms , this is the reverse of the first , consecutive pattern , but like it , it seems to have emerged for a mixture of educational and other reasons . |
| 12 | ‘ It is unfortunate that so little is known of Carlisle , Luguvalium ( Carvetiorum ? ) , although it seems to have grown to considerable size and may have exceeded 70 acres ( 28 ha ) . ’ |
| 13 | It seems to have formed through the successive accretion of continental and island arc fragments ( see Section 3.6 ) from then until the middle Cretaceous and at the time of its collision with the Indian Plate it was probably an area of relatively warm and weak lithosphere . |
| 14 | ‘ It was their story , everything in it seems to have led to the next thing — now it should have a stop ! |
| 15 | Moreover , unless Hugh is wildly inaccurate it seems to have gone beyond the simple quarrel between abbot and flock described by the Ramsey source . |
| 16 | It was only a cast-iron lump with pushrod valvegear , of course , and with no pretensions to be anything more exotic ; even in 1964 we observed that ‘ although this comparatively unsophisticated six-cylinder engine must now be very near the end of its development , it seems to have gained in flexibility and is virtually free from any temperament . ’ |
| 17 | Under the Yorkists it seems to have consisted of the Great Chamber or Hall , for public entertainments , the Chamber itself , and the Bedchamber , consisting of the private apartments . |
| 18 | This happened at the same time as parishes were being formed , and it seems to have resulted in the extinction of many churches , not only as private property but also as working churches . |
| 19 | On the evidence of inscriptions recorded in the volume , it appears to have been in the possession of Amelia , Lady Lovat , in the 17th century , and John , 1st Duke of Atholl , in the 18th century : it seems to have come into the ownership of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in the 19th century , and from there to have passed to the Wigan Free Library . |
| 20 | ‘ It seems to have come as a shock to you , ’ he observed . |
| 21 | it seems to have changed over the last few years |
| 22 | It seems to have originated in the personal computer segment about the time Compaq proved it could supply 286 machines that were comparable to IBM 's … and do so in a more timely fashion . |
| 23 | As for Welsh Rabbit , over the years it seems to have evolved from primitive toasted cheese into a dish not all that different from the fondues of France and Switzerland . |
| 24 | The whole point of the undergirding cables was to provide some shear bracing and so unless the operation was done with a knowledge and accuracy which were rather unlikely in the circumstances , so as to get the cables roughly at forty-five degrees , the expedient probably had usually as little effect as it seems to have had upon Paul 's ship . |