Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb mod] seem to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth of this conjecture would seem to be confirmed by Agatha Christie 's choice of titles for the 1938 volume , Hercule Poirot 's Christmas and the 1960 collection , The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a selection of Entrees . |
| 2 | At first sight this provision might seem to be a contradiction in terms , but some light is cast upon it by the Declaration appended at the end of the Single European Act , which , whatever its legal status may be , states that the conference considered that the provisions of Article 130R(5) ( 2 ) did not affect the principles resulting from the judgment handed down by the European Court in the ERTA case . |
| 3 | As in other areas of financial modelling , most notably that of money demand , 22 the message from this study would seem to be that account needs to be taken of institutional developments in financial markets in moving towards the construction of plausible empirical models . |
| 4 | At first sight this question might seem to be a nonsense : since , as we have seen , a reasonable definition of the Universe is ‘ everything that has , does and will exist ’ , surely there can not be more than one of them ? |
| 5 | This approach would seem to be correct because goods in that condition were unsaleable by the buyer under the contract description ( but compare Cehave v Bremer [ 1976 ] QB 44 ) . |
| 6 | Apart from perhaps being of interest to people who make a lot of overseas telephone calls , and need to know what time it is in New York when its ' 11am in London , for example , this program would seem to be very limited in its usefulness . |
| 7 | Apart from perhaps being of interest to people who make a lot of overseas telephone calls , and need to know what time it is in New York when its ' 11am in London , for example , this program would seem to be very limited in its usefulness . |
| 8 | The only possible wholesale/retail distinction relating to the type of goods that might have some application would seem to be in the area of packaging for retail as opposed to wholesale sale . |
| 9 | Evergreen this farm might seem to be . |
| 10 | This trust would seem to be an important issue of the future as the need arises for difficult decisions to be made . |
| 11 | This view would seem to be supported by the Sunday census of March 1851 , when it was found that in London only 37% of the inhabitants attended any form of divine service , whilst in eight other cities with populations in excess of 100,000 the figure was only 42% . |
| 12 | Immersion in this view would seem to be a kind of baptism which mysteriously induces the gift of tongues . |
| 13 | That he was in Bursa by this time would seem to be borne out by his association with Molla Fenari 's son , Mehmed Sah , whose he became at the medrese of Mehmed I ( the Sultan medrese ) in Bursa . |
| 14 | On the face of it , such activity would seem to be more expressive of right-wing rather than left-wing sentiments . |
| 15 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 16 | Therefore i if we , if he done that then that paragraph would seem to be slightly and the second point was really to ask if there was any further update on the progress in terms of negotiations in Surrey and East Sussex er in terms of this erm particular by-pass and I know that Mr in particular has been concerned with negotiations and Mrs also erm Mrs is not here therefore as Mr could advise me for us o of where we 're at really , so that we fully understand because obviously the the line of the by-pass is very important so far as any further development is is concerned . |
| 17 | This in any case would seem to be ruled out by references to some kings holding certain civitates , or cities with their surrounding territories , jointly . |
| 18 | It was a trick and she knew it , to ask a personal question then appear to forget it so any answer would seem to be volunteered with all the humiliation of confession . |