Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simple answers like this seem to delight younger kids , who demand a reason for everything . |
| 2 | Some areas of study are so hard of definition that they seem to evade all attempts to summarise them . |
| 3 | In this matter , I seem to miss those issues to which you contribute articles : I have not seen one for many months now . |
| 4 | Anglers always seem to carry large amounts of equipment . |
| 5 | If you have players who are obsessed with mapping detail , they will have a very tough time inside the Castle , but in describing the outside of it , when their characters seem to see slight differences each time they look at the buildings , add the disorientating detail that the characters can not remember exactly what the Castle looked like at any time prior to the present moment . |
| 6 | Often , too , they seem to see social influences as qualifying and controlling a biologically given potential . |
| 7 | W we still seem to debate certain things three , four and five times they creep their way through to the main committee and full council and I have to say that the point in para B about the report we 've been sent not recognising the reduction in local er government responsibilities it it is it 's a bit rich , because our response to that report does n't recognise that when I first arrived here Chairman we had the education department which was responsible for all the schools , six colleges of further education , college of art , college of agriculture , the teacher training college at and a major polytechnic . |
| 8 | The emerging treaty proposals on economic and monetary union seem to meet British requirements in full , but I will address some of the critical issues . |
| 9 | Although biofeedback and hypnotism seem to benefit some patients , such services are not often readily available . |
| 10 | The outer layers of the Sun seem to contain forty times more iron and calcium than carbonaceous chondrites . |
| 11 | Going back to the ‘ Economic Seminar ’ , you seem to accept these things are bound to exist , these small inner groups . |
| 12 | Some editors decide whether the first set of comments have been met and send for fresh reports only for major revisions , whereas others seem to obtain fresh referees ' reports routinely . |
| 13 | I seem to remember several cases in which the court considered to what extent the solicitor involves himself in the financial arrangements for a conveyancing transaction . |
| 14 | The whole structure of the season , plus the situation with World Cup and European Championship games , has got to be looked at because at the moment we just seem to penalise successful teams . |
| 15 | Unlike quasars and active galactic nuclei , which seem to require black holes to explain the enormous energies coming from very compact regions , the energy generated by Sgr A is rather feeble . |
| 16 | In addition to these particular problems that seem to require pragmatic solutions , there are also a number of general motivations for the development of pragmatic theory . |
| 17 | We may be pardoned for reproducing a part of the opinion of The American Annals of the Deaf of this quarter on the subject : " The retention of the word " Dumb " — which in America has been dropped from the titles of the Convention of Instructors , The National Association , and several State Associations of the Deaf , and many schools , as well as from the United States Census — is probably due to a vote to that effect by the conference held in London last January ; but as our British friends who constitute the Association seem to favour American precedents , we trust that on further consideration they will follow our example in this respect alone , and omit the objectionable word from their title " . |
| 18 | Seem to disobey all laws there are about parking . |
| 19 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Men seem to prefer young girls of eighteen , ’ said Penelope gloomily , ‘ and then where are you . ’ |
| 21 | Finally , the orientation of the coast with respect to dominant waves , the degree of indentation of the coast and the nature of the shore profile away from the coast seem to play important parts in coastal erosion . |
| 22 | EVEN though the country is in recession leading rugby clubs seem to encounter few difficulties in attracting sponsors . |
| 23 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 24 | Sometimes the boards at the front seem to extend huge leads over the rest of the fleet . |
| 25 | If the angel is already a hybrid ( a human with wings ) , the Latin American angels seem to incorporate further incongruities into this composite of the human and the supernatural which hints at further , latent meanings . |
| 26 | Griffin gives many further examples : that pets and other tame creatures come when they are called by their names ( this would commend itself to Hearne ) , and that numerous species of birds , mammals , and even some fish and insects , seem to recognise individual members of their own species . |
| 27 | I would have thought that a large company like Fender could supply this information with their products as a matter of course , together with technical specifications and notes on the safe usage of this product — after all , I seem to recall several musicians being electrocuted when playing their electric guitars . |
| 28 | Yet the means he employs seem to contradict these aims : reconciling his removal of benefits from 16 and 17 year olds , for instance , with his expressed support for the family , is an exercise to test even the wisest . |
| 29 | Apart from a few parts which seem to lack any antecedents , it derives variously , but less closely , from the compositions just mentioned , from the lecture on " Greek Music Drama " January 1870 ) , from the fragments on " The Greek State " and , in a few places , from the earlier preface to Wagner . |
| 30 | Montague Massengale 's Fragonard ( £14 ) , Henri Loyrette 's Degas : Passion and Intellect ( £6.95 ) and Sylvie Patin 's Monet : the Ultimate Impressionist ( £6.95 ) seem to offer general accounts of the artists ' lives and work . |