Interestingly, students prefer short hedges and stick to
conventional ways of hedging, trying to use modal verbs,
markers of indefiniteness, quantifiers (quite, little),
structures with seem to, tend to etc. However, such
structures as the results imply or the investigation seeks to
(…) are usually avoided. The former has not been found at
all and the latter had only 2 tokens. One of possible
reasons for that could be fairly low frequency of the socalled
‘middle-voice’ structures in Lithuanian in general,
whereas English is very productive in it (see Kemmer
1993).