Example sentences of "[adv] seems [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much seems to depend upon the circumstances of the particular case . |
| 2 | Whether the picture is seen as a staircase viewed from above or a staircase viewed from below seems to depend on something other than the image on the retina of the viewer . |
| 3 | That only seems to apply in the Highfields area . |
| 4 | But from what little I do know of it , my understanding is that it basically dramatises the same power relationships , and so seems to appeal to the same inequalities . |
| 5 | He believes that the deterrent effect , which no longer seems to exist for young people , should be reinstated . |
| 6 | Dicey 's theory thus seems constructed on the idea of balances within parliamentary mechanisms . |
| 7 | B : There 's a yellow VW outside Sue 's house Here B 's contribution , taken literally , fails to answer A's question , and thus seems to violate at least the maxims of Quantity and Relevance . |
| 8 | Letting Swindon , Stoke and Honved score goals past them quite easily seems to point at a suspect defence . |
| 9 | The circulation was a new record and four hundred and eighty five thousand , nine hundred by year end and it just seems to go from strength to strength . |
| 10 | ‘ Distribution always seems to improve during the Christmas period , ’ he said , ‘ but then we bypass inefficient distributors by going direct to the excellent wholesalers . ’ |
| 11 | Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches . |
| 12 | Jammy barsteward this one , always seems to land on his feet when it involves getting in free to everton away games . |
| 13 | The London Road End always seems to have at least one organizer , and usually two . |
| 14 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising such a point , rather than displaying the ridiculous opposition that we have seen from Labour , which still seems pledged to getting rid of some of the finest schools in the state education system . |
| 15 | The poem 's beginning is certainly biblical , drawing on Ecclesiastes , but it also involves the modern world ( ‘ factory … bypass ’ ) , and deliberately seems to draw on the biblical passage closest to Frazerian fertility rites , the dead being reborn through the seasonal cycle . |
| 16 | Astrology , however , does not operate like rational science , for it seeks to confirm its theories , and nothing ever seems to count against them . |
| 17 | Not putting ‘ 673 ’ or ‘ 700 ’ or ‘ c. 700 ’ instead of ‘ 600 ’ hardly seems to qualify as a Mistake to me . |
| 18 | Safly and hardle are both in the -ly suffix group ; but the child who misspells safly seems to understand about the suffix -ly and so is potentially a better speller than the one who has n't understood the suffix and produces hardle . |
| 19 | Not only is this irritating to consumers ; it also seems to rebound on some of the firms themselves — think of Eurotunnel , or of Euro RSCG , a troubled French ad agency . |
| 20 | He also seems to want to be the Nineties Coco Chanel , so street fashion bods can rest easy . |
| 21 | It also seems to work against cancers resistant to standard anti-cancer drugs . |
| 22 | Testosterone also seems to rise with success — winning a game or getting promoted . |
| 23 | There are some studies which support the claim that early acquisition also seems to make for better syntactic ability " ( Romaine 1989 : 214 – 15 ) . |
| 24 | The number of rows that you can tuck for successfully seems to depend upon the design . |
| 25 | BA 's biggest competition so far seems to come from the Germans , who are already at work refurbishing Moscow 's existing international airport , Sheremtyero . |
| 26 | The public roughly seems divided between people who deny the struggle any sexual significance at all , and those who , seeing the significance , attribute it to sexual morbidity and hysteria . |
| 27 | erm , erm feel like they 're getting the benefit again , again and again , you now make the costs of at every point they take another , they 've got more coming in , erm in terms of cash and er at every point I seem to loose , I loose the first case in ninety one and everything now seems to go against me , it seems as though I do n't stand a chance any more . |
| 28 | Thus the principle of indiscernibles now seems to reduce to the thesis that if there were duplicate monads and duplicate worlds , we ourselves , relying on our own cognitive resources , would not be in a position to distinguish them . |
| 29 | Mimesis has been one of the great seminal works for the study of literary style , and on that ground I am discussing it here ; for a number of reasons , however , it now seems to stand on the margins of modern approaches to literature . |
| 30 | Ironically Stiedry 's approach , once thought , not least by the old Record Guide , somewhat peremptory now seems to accord with modern ideas of how to treat Gluck , not marmoreally as was then the general custom but as live drama . |