Example sentences of "seem have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law . |
| 2 | Two years ago I planted over sixty daffodils , they all seem to have come up , produced plenty of foliage , quite a few had flower buds , but only a handful managed to actually flower . |
| 3 | Another work you often seem to have come back to is Il trovatore . |
| 4 | As we see when we examine the Spycatcher cases , in the area of civil liberties the courts seem to have come to regard themselves as the partners of the executive , tackling difficult problems together , rather than as a separate , autonomous , and sometimes necessarily antagonistic branch of government . |
| 5 | At any rate you seem to have come to no harm . ’ |
| 6 | Between the Cuckmere valley and the kingdom of Kent settled a group whose identity remained fairly coherent until the days of the Norman conquest but of whose political influence we know but little ; these Haestingas seem to have come within the South Saxon ambit but served also as a buffer in the continued kingly wars of the early centuries . |
| 7 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 8 | Charles and Elizabeth seem to have come up with an intelligent expedient : they would give the boy two Christian names — the first Frome Titford ever to enjoy this luxury — and he could be called ‘ William Charles ’ after his uncle/godfather and father respectively , though they would actually use the name ‘ Charles ’ in everyday conversation . |
| 9 | Certainly geography helped and prevailing economic conditions played an important part , but most towns seem to have come into existence as a result of conscious decisions . |
| 10 | Comparable units in the two ranges seem to have come from an oceanic trough that was torn apart and thrust in opposite directions . |
| 11 | — ‘ Well — for a business disaster waiting to happen , you seem to have come off remarkably unscathed . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The weekly papers in the province seem to have come through the worst recession in living memory relatively unscathed . |
| 13 | Oh I had a huge list of names really you know of erm you know we had quite big meetings where people seem to have come out of their parties their sort of sectarianism really you know which er the left is notorious for if you like if you want to use cliches . |
| 14 | Edmund 's early attempts at opposition seem to have come to nothing . |
| 15 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |