Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] seems [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing else about me seems to have been very important for the past four years ! ’ |
| 2 | Neither of them seems to find it in any way remarkable . |
| 3 | All this is not to say that Gloucester faced no problems , but none of them seems to have threatened his tenure of the protectorship . |
| 4 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 5 | Neither of them seems to have read any work of Latin poetry , though at least Polybius must have become fluent in the language : even their direct use of Latin historians is doubtful . |
| 6 | All this is not to say that Gloucester faced no problems , but none of them seems to have threatened his tenure of the protectorship . |
| 7 | They will probably correctly object that this theory of mine seems to get things round the wrong way , and that even if we grant my argument that growth in the power of the state detracts from that of the individual 's superego , there is every reason to suppose that in most cases the total power came first , and the deterioration in personality , however we like to describe it , later . |
| 8 | Little of it seems to show . |
| 9 | There have n't been any major er , examples of er , bed blocking in , in the , in the county , so that part of it seems to have worked er , smoothly . |
| 10 | The god above and behind her seems poised to stab her ( Figure 43 ) . |
| 11 | Behind it seems to lie a powerful public need to provide a justification for social inequality by blaming those who have the rawest deal for their own fate : hence the stereotyping of immigrants , and of women , as well as of older people . |
| 12 | Waldock , for example , considered that the ‘ general duty ’ upon States to respect the operation of treaties between other States , ‘ even when limited to treaties not impairing their rights or imposing disabilities upon them seems to go beyond the existing law ’ . |
| 13 | The evidence of variable spelling in ME seems to point to an early origin , and if the arguments for this can be sustained , they have a clear relevance to understanding historical patterns of variation . |
| 14 | The money 's mostly there , but the spirit in him seems to have been leaking away . |
| 15 | ‘ It was their story , everything in it seems to have led to the next thing — now it should have a stop ! |
| 16 | It made us all behave like lunatics but no one except me seems to want to forget it . |
| 17 | If the course described to you seems to bear no relation to these criteria do make further enquiries . |
| 18 | Aethelbald 's association with these councils does not give the impression of a king so totally outside contemporary conventions as Boniface 's letter to him seems to imply . |
| 19 | I 've , certainly had no a , excuse me , no adverse comments back in terms the vision screening etcetera , itself as er , people have sort of responded to it seems to have had a so something which will be quite good sort of go going along in the right spirit . |
| 20 | When low down it seems to flash various colours , because its light is coming to us through a thick layer of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 21 | This bench is not straight , anything you put on it seems to wobble What ? |
| 22 | Once again , no party except ours seems to have grasped this simple point or made any proposal to act on it . |
| 23 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 24 | One says he do n't think so , and someone else makes a crack about reggae , and I realize this gun I had pointing at her seems to have drooped like soft rubber , so I relax my arm and let it point to the floor . |
| 25 | From the viewpoint of a molecular biologist , the distance between us seems to decrease as our knowledge increases . |