Example sentences of "[noun] seems [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research seems to indicate that normal karate training may lead to joint injury given that when you kick hard against the empty air , there is nothing to stop the movement of the foot except the limits of the joint . |
| 2 | Later research seems to show that Malinowski mis-understood a number of key features of the system he described , but it is certainly the case that the participants in the Kula conceive of it as a circulating system of exchange . |
| 3 | Indeed , manufacturing capability seems to have such a major impact on product development that it is worth examining in greater detail . |
| 4 | Rosenfeld 's study seems to lend some support to the functionalist view that social stratification , at least in terms of power and prestige , is inevitable in human society . |
| 5 | Maybe the reason why it 's been so successful in Japan is because the Japanese mind seems to think that way . |
| 6 | The deal seems to mean that with the Scottish base , AST no longer needs the European plant it had planned . |
| 7 | Reported opioid misuse seems to reflect this trend . |
| 8 | Struan seems to confuse these two uses . |
| 9 | Struan seems to see this consensus as evidence of objectivity . |
| 10 | ‘ The estimated time for completion seems to extend each time Pool runs the predictor . |
| 11 | Used loosely and liberally , the term seems to cover any book either written for children or taken by children before about 1900 . |
| 12 | On its face , the literal rule seems to forbid this common sense approach to statutory interpretation . |
| 13 | My result does show there are exceptions — the jacanas are one — but the rule seems to have enough generality to invite explanation . |
| 14 | The added documentation which bureaux might need to comply with such a requirement in this country could be costly , and the requirement seems to carry little practical value : if a credit granter suddenly gets information relating to an inquiry made some months earlier , which is almost certainly no longer active , it wo n't do the consumer any good . |
| 15 | A deal of Tony 's documentary work seems to involve some form of danger , ‘ I went to Asia twice ; in 1986 and when the Soviets began their pullout and stayed for a year and a half in Peshawar , Pakistan . |
| 16 | A number of other models have been suggested for the development of scientific knowledge , but these models are measuring the concomitants of scientific growth — the manpower , costs , publications , citations , etc — and none has so far been developed to fully describe the growth of knowledge itself , although Goffman 's work seems to have some predictive value . |
| 17 | The skilled sportsman seems to have more time and to do things more slowly than the less skilled one . |
| 18 | Rhodes considered that there had been an improved performance in services which were the sole responsibility of either the GLC or the boroughs : but of those services which were shared ‘ only the group of transportation functions seems to show any marked advantages ; over both housing and planning there hang certain question marks ’ ( Rhodes 1972:468 ) . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , Mrs Shephard seems to have neither . |
| 20 | Operating the 238S requires a separate mixer , which I actually find easier than using an all-in-one machine because working alone and trying to remember complicated bounces and mixes and all the things which have to go on tape is hard enough , so routing signals through the desk seems to make more sense to an already cluttered mind . |
| 21 | Matthew seems to interpret this miracle as an ‘ allegory ’ . |
| 22 | Althusser seems to take this view when he argues that |
| 23 | The idea of each institution forming a coherent academic community seems to have little purchase in reality . |
| 24 | Now a report from the Minnesota group seems to confirm these expectations with a 33% reduction in cancer related mortality over 13 years . |
| 25 | The ever-familiar profile seems to derive more than a smidgeon of alternative inspiration from Aria 's Magna-series , as in fact does the whole bass . |
| 26 | Certainly , Supreme Court judges are likely to have had a much wider variety of governmental and legal experience than their counterparts in Britain where the rather narrow process of socialization into the law and recruitment process seems to ensure less variation . |
| 27 | Such a theory would seem to support the notion of two distinct orientations of dramatic playing and performing , but Stanislavsky 's theory of acting seems to embrace both modes , leading us to consider the model as dialectic , each mode containing the seed of its opposite . |
| 28 | Even when set up correctly some units have their clip lights coming on at the slightest provocation , while the Alpha seems to have more headroom before it clips , which should therefore mean less chance of unwanted distortion . |
| 29 | Well Geoffrey seems to need more . |
| 30 | In fact , Bolinger seems to weaken this latter claim somewhat in his discussion of what he calls a " nominalised " predicative position , as in it was a plump one . |