Example sentences of "seem to be [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fancy goldfish seem to be particularly prone to swimbladder disease . |
| 2 | But they seem to be curiously indifferent to timber in the shape of components . |
| 3 | I would say early schizophrenia — the paranoid type that older people seem to be more susceptible to . |
| 4 | We seem to be more alert to that than many others ; hence our firm determination , which was re-emphasised by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister this afternoon , to make subsidiarity work . |
| 5 | Among young people , women seem to be more prone to it than men , while research shows that sufferers are generally of slim build and underweight . |
| 6 | What causes me some disquiet , however , is that British Rail 's thoughts seem to be entirely devoted to the passenger opportunities that the link affords . |
| 7 | Other significant phenomena which have emerged from such studies are that simple reversals of the numbers are a common form of error , accurate reproduction is facilitated by deliberate grouping in twos or threes and the ends of a span seem to be less prone to error than the middle . |
| 8 | Instead , the speakers for the religions seem to be almost indifferent to the lying , cheating , devious commercial practices , the usury , the violence of petty and major crime , the unbridled selfishness manifest among some of the multitudes using the roads , the odour of the suspicion of bribery and corruption rising above the town halls and other organisation headquarters and many other evils . |
| 9 | A lot of foods we make from wheat flour often tend to be very high in calories , seem to be almost irresistible to hungry slimmers , and are often used as ‘ binge ’ g=foods by compulsive eaters . |
| 10 | The biophysical processes involved in the conduction of nervous impulses in insects seem to be essentially similar to those in other invertebrates ( Narahashi , 1963 ) . |