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Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] seem to [be] " in BNC.

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1	He 's got a week 's growth of beard which seems to be permanent , judging from the times I 've seen him in the past .
2	As in the days of slavery there seems to be two Jamaicas divided by class and colour .
3	I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot
4	This book is not the place to undertake such a task ; but one comment that might be made is that an initial distinction between class and status is likely to be important ; for it is the evaluative rather than the economic dimension of stratification which seems to be relevant to linguistic variation .
5	Nor , when a more viable alternative does appear , are they necessarily much bothered if it reopens issues peripheral to the main line of advance which seemed to be already settled .
6	Whether enforcement agents are concerned with air or water' pollution control , consumer protection , health and safety at work , housing , discrimination , wage and price control , or the many other areas of social and economic life now considered to be the law 's business , writers have observed a style of enforcement which seems to be predominantly conciliatory .
7	This kind of arrangement may be possible in the more flexible reports of major excavations now being planned , and will be a great advance on the old-fashioned set-piece type of report which seems to be designed only for those wanting to study particular types of artefact , rather than the history and significance of the site itself .
8	Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress .
9	An example of the interactions between living things in which both partners would appear to benefit equally occurs in the Amazon Forest where one particular species of orchid is pollinated by just one species of bee which seems to be tailor-made to fit the flower which it pollinates .
10	The rapid progress towards integration which seemed to be occurring also , in December 1952 , led the Dutch foreign minister to write to his counterparts that the extent of political and military integration currently under consideration should be accompanied by an equally extensive economic integration — in short , by a common market .
11	As a rough rule of thumb there seems to be a ratio of 90 per cent teacher comment of the ‘ do n't do ’ and ‘ stop it ’ variety to 10 per cent praise .
12	Joel Swanson did not understand , nor did he ever expect to understand , exactly what was going on , but the kind of activity he seemed to be hearing about , in snatches only , was more or less exactly what he 'd expect from his wife 's relatives .
13	She would never catch up with the enormous range of reading which seemed to be taken for granted by Bob and his friends , never .
14	Indeed , so profound and all-pervading is the modern resentment of authority , restraint and control in all its forms that even types of protest which seem to be motivated by the highest ideals of civilized behaviour and the most tender manifestations of conscience can be shown to originate in it .
15	Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us .
16	In part they seem to be societal — you score no points if you ditch your spouse — but largely they seem to concern the very basic matter of pair-bonding .
17	If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband it would be quite appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title ( although in practice it seems to be accepted that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase ) ; but in the case of a house already in joint names it is thought that this could be dispensed with , the wife 's solicitor assuming that a proper investigation of title to the property was made at the time when the house was purchased by the husband and the wife .
18	In effect he seems to be saying that Conservatism seeks to preserve social discipline through the maintenance of authority , and that therefore it stresses authority and social discipline .
19	The ancestor of the modern jury has been found in a variety of institutions of northern Europe in this period ; in truth it seems to be the residuary legatee of the popular courts in general .
20	Every day some master , insufficiently energetic or serious , is forced to descend from the ranks in society which seemed to be permanently his , and some intelligent and plucky clerk takes his place .
21	In science there seems to be an odd inversion of stereotypes .
22	In fact it seemed to be only Gaughan who seemed capable of creating chances as Darlington struggled .
23	In fact it seemed to be only Gaughan who seemed capable of creating chances as Darlington struggled .
24	He was small for his age , dark , large-eyed — in fact he seemed to be all Diane and almost nothing of his father .
25	The 386SX machine Xtradrive was installed on showed no tendency to run Windows any the slower — in fact there seemed to be a positive speed benefit , which could only be due to the quicker load times compressed files must enjoy .
26	Until Christmas he seemed to be making progress , but then his heart began to fail .
27	As the two components have a common motion through space they seem to be physically associated , but they are at least a light-year apart , and possibly much more .
28	And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else .
29	How about yourself , you 've settled well at United , though strangely when you were on loan everything seemed to be going so well did n't it , there were some good results coming .
30	Museums and archaeology both suffer from chronic under-funding , and at present there seems to be no cause for optimism that this situation will change .