Example sentences of "[adj] seem to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
| 2 | This seemed to have prompted a rush of at least six people to seek Dr Kevorkian 's assistance in January and February . |
| 3 | Everything exciting seemed to have happened before I was born . |
| 4 | Some seem to have thought that if a case could be traced to a feud , it was false . |
| 5 | Sometimes the very old seem to have moved beyond that kind of fear . |
| 6 | The same inhibitions which kept clergy clean-shaven seem to have applied to clerical uniform . |
| 7 | By contrast , the English seem to have had fewer ships at this period , although Edward III had some royal ships , and vessels were built for largely defensive purposes . |
| 8 | As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine . |
| 9 | For a long time there has been a choice , but very few seem to have realised it . |
| 10 | This seems to have satisfied Pennethorne , and he agreed to help Hunt as requested . |
| 11 | All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture . |
| 12 | This seems to have affected the fate of Frederic , Lord Leighton 's ‘ Sibyl ’ , bought-in at £145,000 against an estimate of £180–250,000 at Sotheby 's and previously sold at Christie 's in 1987 for £250,000 ; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 's ‘ A Sculptor 's Model ( Venus Esquilina ) ’ bought-in at £150,000 against an estimate of £200–300,000 at Christie 's , consigned by a Japanese corporation but familiar from the front window of a London gallery within very close proximity of Christie 's ; and John Roddam Spencer Stanhope 's lovely ‘ Our Lady of the Water Gate , ’ bought-in at £55,000 against an estimate of £80–120,000 at Christie 's , having previously been offered privately for around £180,000 . |
| 13 | So come Monday morning , Sunday night in fact , Noel said gosh I can this is , this seems to have gone light . |
| 14 | This seems to have emerged with greatest sharpness in an area marked simultaneously by the most advanced commercial wealth in Europe and the absence of an established State : the seventeen provinces of the Low Countries , the possessions of the Habsburg dynasty . |
| 15 | Taking the specific argument about the role of drugs and ‘ drug barons ’ in stimulating the riots , this seems to have served two purposes . |
| 16 | Conn McCluskey of the CSJ held out strongly against defying the ban but the DHAC representatives made it clear that they would go ahead in any case , and this seems to have swayed the NICRA members . |
| 17 | Similar doubts were expressed about the study of the environment , which took off about the same time , but this seems to have gained a much firmer academic foothold , despite the fact that such courses range from the physical to the social with , as one CRAC Degree Course Guide put it , almost nothing in common between these two extremes . |
| 18 | This seems to have begun in London where there were countless scruffy alley-cats whose poor condition doubtless led to the comparison with ‘ dishevelled old women ’ . |
| 19 | It also needed a second factor , a change in the general attitude to family size , and this seems to have begun well before the 1870s . |
| 20 | As early as the 1550s the Venetian government had begun sending young men to Constantinople to learn the language : this seems to have continued for about a century but then faded away . |
| 21 | I have read for review , but not usually in the end reviewed , not a few books where this seems to have occurred . |
| 22 | And this seems to , this seems to have occurred . |
| 23 | In some schools , at any rate , this seems to have performed a rhetorical function in conforming to the guidelines , rather than producing a realistic statement of an established and developing provision . |
| 24 | This seems to have encountered erm deeper objections , to judge at least by my friends and acquaintances . |
| 25 | This seems to have appealed to the Federal Commission because Mr Zecar came to Zagreb with the same proposition . |
| 26 | This seems to have helped for eventually the topic ceases to be discussed . |
| 27 | So far this seems to have helped , as the pond has stayed quite clear though it is in constant sunlight . |
| 28 | None of this seems to have deterred the stallholders of central Bangkok . |
| 29 | In some set-piece frescoes , life-sized figures of men , bulls , and griffins were moulded in low relief ; this seems to have happened in the period 1550–1470 BC , but not later . |
| 30 | Sometimes , as in England , country girls became more literate than country boys — this seems to have happened in the 1850s . |