Example sentences of "he seems [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 And that to him seems to be the answer to a problem which at sometime or another must have exercised most of use , and which he explains in the pamphlet which accompanies the display ; ‘ The art gallery , that supposed refuge and den of tranquility , I find a troubled place .
2 He seems to be talking in a series of jumpy thoughts .
3 Again and again he seems to be in and yet dubiously of the party .
4 Just as you can gain access to the cave of the unconscious only by being inside already , he seems to be saying , so you can gradually reach towards an understanding of my work only by understanding it in advance .
5 It is the more remarkable that Pound in his letter to Williams should diagnose himself as suffering from a milder form of Eliot 's disease ; most of the time , alike in his life and his poetry , he seems to be denying it by strenuously over-compensating .
6 Although many attribute to Lo Tak-shing possession of the most byzantine — and very possibly the cleverest -mind in Hong Kong politics , few claim to understand quite what he seems to be doing with it .
7 Put him in the ring with an audience that you ca n't see , and he seems to be delivering butterfly-taps .
8 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 .
9 He seems to be working hard enough and studying , ’ Rose tried to reassure him as always from a careful distance .
10 He seems to be obsessed with investing every penny , while at the same time turning a blind eye to the needs of his growing family .
11 He seems to be pulling round , ’ Marx said .
12 He seems to be cashing in on the goodwill of those who regret the party 's ‘ new start ’ last month when it renamed itself the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) .
13 He seems to be living in the Department of Education .
14 He seems to be living in the Department of Education .
15 He seems to be in a bad mood about something .
16 He seems to be heading this way .
17 He seems to be above , or able to cut through , all the normal suspicions that alienated young people have of the ‘ Establishment ’ in a quite remarkable way .
18 Like many religious folk who have gone into politics , he seems to be two people , a man whose private persona is bafflingly at odds with his public .
19 He seems to be at ease with you , more than with anyone else .
20 ‘ A lot of people probably think he is too fat when he is jumping , ’ says John , ‘ but he seems to be better for carrying a bit of weight ; he has more energy .
21 John 's insights into her situation are astoundingly accurate … but is he all he seems to be ?
22 He seems to be saying that we should open ourselves up to this possibility , and that if we do not do so , we may miss something that may ultimately be much more important to us than all that science is able to capture in its net .
23 And he seems to be sticking now to the same MO .
24 I 've thought of asking Bryan if we could change to that , but he seems to be happy with the sound .
25 He seems to be thrusting up market .
26 However , Andrew Hargreaves , Conservative MP for Hall Green , said : ‘ He seems to be particularly attached to the rural idyll , into which harsh reality seems to be an inconvenience . ’
27 For a newcomer into single seaters he seems to be doing well .
28 This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him .
29 He seems to be on talking terms with the creator and is able to gain permission to tempt Job in a number of horrible ways .
30 This applies even if he seems to be selling them too quickly or too cheaply .
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