Example sentences of "seems to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the interbedded carbonates became fractured and brecciated but in this case the process seems to have affected the Z2 and Z3 Carbonates rather than the Z1 Carbonate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The once-and-for-all improvement in women 's relative pay associated with the enactment of equal pay legislation seems to have affected the female labour force indirectly by encouraging the deferment of childbearing in the mid-1970s . |
| 4 | It says it is difficult to explain why the rising divorce rate seems to have affected men 's suicide rate but not women 's . |
| 5 | Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon . |
| 6 | Generally speaking the sin-offering seems to have referred to offences against God , and the guilt-offering to social offences . |
| 7 | After Wilfrid 's eventual return north , although Christianity stayed in Sussex it seems to have formed one of the less distinguished and lively dioceses of the English church , closely tied to the features and experience of the county generally but not emerging to direct secular life . |
| 8 | Now began the long-drawn-out tragedy of the Congo which , according to General H.T. Alexander , ‘ produced a fundamental change in Ghana 's position vis-à-vis the West ’ , while Basil Davidson observes ‘ experience in the Congo … seems to have formed for Nkrumah the final demonstration that policies of ‘ tact ’ , of ‘ continuity ’ , of conformity with Western wishes had nothing more to offer . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Indeed , contrary to the impression of steady acceleration conveyed by the decennial Census statistics , the urban-rural shift in population seems to have peaked in the early 1970s . |
| 11 | Heavy overnight rain has helped swell some rivers … but elsewhere the flooding seems to have peaked , and forecasters say the worst is over … at least for now . |
| 12 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |
| 13 | But Westminster seems to have converted such mind-boggling sophistication into an art-form . |
| 14 | Already one of the trumpeters-in-ordinary from 30 March 1688 , he seems to have joined the court band as a musician-in-ordinary in 1695 ; he became serjeant-trumpeter in 1707 on the death of William Shore , his uncle or , less probably , brother , and he lived to serve George II . |
| 15 | Lewis never seems to have faced the problem , either in his imaginative writings or in his works of theology . |
| 16 | Effortless transfer : Sir Patrick , who joined the BP board shortly after he retired from the foreign service in 1991 , seems to have transferred effortlessly from Whitehall to business life . |
| 17 | Homo sapiens sapiens seems to have replaced the Neanderthals in a few thousand years about 30000 years ago . |
| 18 | Indeed , the publisher seems to have recognised these shortcomings of the first issue , and claims that the brief of the journal is being broadened . |
| 19 | Mr Evans seems to have recognised that the prospective decade of self-sufficiency in oil promised a unique opportunity for such a revival and hence the conditions in which a sympathetic government could satisfy the movement 's ambition . |
| 20 | Nobody seems to have explained this to her , but finally she understands . |
| 21 | David Thomson , who found the film ‘ gratuitous , misogynist , pretentious and repellent ’ , remarked about Hoffman that ‘ his adoption of violence at the climax is the more troubling because Peckinpah never seems to have explained its need to the gentle and perplexed actor . |
| 22 | George Orwell wrote for the BBC Overseas Service and made hundreds of radio broadcasts , but no recording of his voice seems to have survived anywhere . |
| 23 | Even her Minoan name , Britomartis , or ‘ Sweet Virgin' , seems to have survived in a slightly spoonerized form in the later Greek name , Artemis . |
| 24 | It probably grew to the status of a town with special civic privileges during the Roman occupation , and seems to have survived well into the Saxon period . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , no record seems to have survived of the names of all those who signed the document : in an interview with the Despatch on 1 September , one of their leaders said they were mostly from printing offices which had not agreed to the men 's memorial , that is on the whole the smaller offices . |
| 26 | Yet at some time in the days after its surrender to 5 Corps , the decision had been taken that the division should not be repatriated , although no formal record of how or why this happened seems to have survived . |
| 27 | He set up in business as an antique dealer but , according to Herbert Cranko , ‘ seems to have loved his stock more than his customers , often refusing to sell a cherished piece to a disliked buyer ’ . |
| 28 | Popular opinion among those British ‘ boy labour ’ reformers who considered the curriculum seems to have favoured basing the organization of the classes on the Munich model in which trades either had their own schools , or groups of trades had their own curriculum . |
| 29 | ‘ The orchestra seems to have scored , ’ said park boss John Taylor . |
| 30 | One brand new product that seems to have scored a huge hit at the recent MacWorld show is Adobe 's Illustrator . |