Example sentences of "[noun sg] seem to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although you look like a child , you are not really a child at all because your mind and your powers of reasoning seem to be fully grown-up . |
| 2 | I think that 's , I mean I think that 's why the , the two interesting ends of the U K press are the tabloid end , because it looks , it looks as if it 's sort of forged in the heat of hot metal and steaminess and erm the top end and things like the Express and The Mail seem to be entirely flabby in the middle . |
| 3 | 14 Which toothpaste seems to be most popular ? |
| 4 | Mr Forsyth 's support for student loans has ensured little support for him on the campus but , that apart , the student vote seems to be as divided as it is in the wider constituency . |
| 5 | Wool-sucking seems to be most common among young cats that have been orphaned or have for some other reason been deprived of the maternal nipple too soon . |
| 6 | Now try the other side — notice how one side seems to be more flexible ! |
| 7 | Whatever that is , his longer-term ambition seems to be increasingly clear . |
| 8 | Isolated primary non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma of the oesophagus seems to be exceptionally rare ; in both reported cases , oesophageal lesions were the first manifestation of the disease . |
| 9 | In Harrods book department the penis of a Manhattan black photographed by raking light seems to be more offensive to the general public than are close-ups of Madonna 's private parts . |
| 10 | However the main disadvantage seems to be that current digitising tablets are not quite so comfortable and natural to use . |
| 11 | ‘ Stealing a car seems to be automatically serious enough to merit a custodial sentence , ’ he says . |
| 12 | On conversions that I have seen the fan seems to be too close to the radiator . |
| 13 | The concentration seems to be too low to influence gastric acid secretion . |
| 14 | And cocaine when it was available , but it was very rare at that time , y'know , but opium seemed to be very stable , there was always opium available and that was the thing that I would always try to achieve , to obtain , y'know . |
| 15 | In places the ice seemed to be frighteningly thin , and our boots turned it mushy as seeping salt water formed lakes in the snow-vales . |
| 16 | He hesitated , simply not knowing what to say to the elegant figure opposite him who was so evidently determined , and to whom fantasy seemed to be very close to ordinary life . |
| 17 | The girl seemed to be more concerned at the loss of the eggs than her home , Christina noticed . |
| 18 | Only the organist in the conference hall seemed to be properly tuned-in , belting out a rendition of Bewitched , bothered and bewildered as the representatives filed in for their annual law and order debate . |
| 19 | The Ecuadorian peasantry seem to be particularly productive . |
| 20 | The genes in question seem to be very similar in prokaryotes which in other respects are not very alike , and which are thought not to be closely related . |
| 21 | Even rape seems to be more respectable — more ‘ normal ’ — than the simple act of enjoying fine silks and satins next to one 's skin . |
| 22 | But the select committee seems to be technically ill-informed . |
| 23 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 24 | Thus diversion of faecal stream by split ileostomy may induce remission of resistant Crohn 's colitis , and enteral or parenteral nutrition seem to be as effective as corticosteroids in inducing remission whereas both forms of treatment are singularly ineffective in the management of ulcerative colitis . |
| 25 | An important point to emerge out of the network model is that aspects of non-co-operation seem to be more common than prototypically co-operative behaviour from a reader 's perspective , at least as far as SF is concerned . |
| 26 | In the case of the other three functions , it will be argued that it is difficult to see how they could be treated as separate : for example , the placement of tonic stress is closely linked to the presentation of ‘ new ’ information , while the question/statement distinction and the indication of contrast seem to be equally important in grammar and discourse . |
| 27 | This odd refusal seemed to be massively significant at G-Mex , where The Smiths acted as conquering outsiders . |
| 28 | Cooling seems to be more pronounced and more extensive in the west than the east ; for example , since 1981 ( Fig. 3 a ) there has been a decrease of more than -1°C in the upper layers to the west , compared with warming in the intermediate water to the east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . |
| 29 | The only drawback of this method is that the price of a cheap electret stick microphone seems to be about double the cost of the other components ! |
| 30 | One main gender distinction seems to be that sexual relations with women are much more psychological than biological , whereas with men the reverse seems to be true . |