Example sentences of "seem to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London 's Theatre Museum could rout its critics by putting on its very first , entitled Cinderella And Her Very Ugly Sisters , as well as a Panto Fun Week of workshops where families can find out how Daisy the Cow negotiates the stage or how a handsome actor is turned into an Ugly Sister , or personally seem to be a Dame or a Principal Boy by being photographed with face beaming through a cut-out stylised figure . |
| 2 | They seem to be a darned queer family . |
| 3 | I seem to be a permanent figure in this small town , loitering under the shade of a eucalyptus , with my blue sunhat pulled over my eyes . |
| 4 | When dealing with the violent and destructive there seem to be a number of rules to be followed : |
| 5 | One doctor , driven to desperation by a patient , found herself saying , ‘ You seem to be a very strong woman and you have managed to reduce your husband to impotence . |
| 6 | This may not , at first glance , seem to be a major factor but in fact it is a crucial element in weight control . |
| 7 | Hurricanes : we never used to have them ; now they seem to be a regular meteorological fixture . |
| 8 | They seem to be a strangely ugly , ill-nourished lot , rather like the subhuman race in The Rime Machine who lived underground and fed upon the Beautiful People up above . |
| 9 | In fact many of her visions seem to be a sort of sacred one-upmanship on St Bride , who also had visions of the Holy Family , but was not allowed to play nearly so intimate a role in its life as Margery . |
| 10 | Lying upon the sand at a distance of 200 yards [ 180 m ] , their bodies often seem to be a uniform dull chrome yellow , but in reality the entire upper surface of the animal from snout to tail is of a uniform olive green , mottled with the former colour . |
| 11 | They seem to be a gloomy lot . |
| 12 | The results are pleasing to both hand and eye and seem to be a satisfying way of leaving something of lasting beauty and worth to posterity . |
| 13 | In one characteristic only does there seem to be a limitation — size . |
| 14 | And I seem to be a social worker most of the time . |
| 15 | There seem to be a number in Client Services . |
| 16 | There seem to be a lot of triumphal arches , which would suggest regular ceremonial occasions , possibly victory parades . ’ |
| 17 | Once you 've left the Getting Started manual , screenshots seem to be a thing of the past and any semblance of logical order is forgotten . |
| 18 | But consider now some other polyadic predicates which , on the face of it , seem more resistant to a " reductivist " analysis , and provide what seem to be a more reliable indication of the philosophical untenability of an anti-pluralist stance . |
| 19 | Or it 's true about the nurses John dates , and they seem to be a pretty typical crowd . |
| 20 | They seem to be a simple , happy-go-lucky folk who are content if they can merely catch a bus or two each day , and find a bit of a gap in the traffic to nip through , and survive till bedtime . |
| 21 | Erm women are more likely to use the words such as may , might , possibly , perhaps which seem to be a little less forceful . |
| 22 | These eddies seem to be a product of the upward convection in the troposphere , and their energy source is therefore that which drives this convection . |
| 23 | He did n't refer to it directly , but he did observe mildly , " You seem to be a power in the City . |
| 24 | ‘ No — and our relations and friends who have passed over seem to be a particularly dreary bunch . |
| 25 | Competitive upgrades , too , seem to be a low-cost route to owning premium priced software , so it 's often worthwhile taking advantage of them when they 're there . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , Miss Walkinshaw , but I seem to be a trifle under the weather this afternoon . |
| 27 | I have always enjoyed going to Highfield Holiday park and to Clacton because I know that when you get there , there always seem to be a lot of people who make the effort to welcome people to the Holiday park and they have always seemed friendly and if anything was wrong i.e. you lose something or somebody accidentally falls and hurts themselves or indeed somebody else the staff are always quick to help and so are a lot of other people who are on holiday there . |
| 28 | ‘ You have excellent hearing , apparently , ’ he said , ‘ but you seem to be a bit slow on the uptake . ’ |
| 29 | However , two of the First Class singles illustrated seem to be a late or a second printing . |
| 30 | Tell me honestly — you seem to be a friend — does she have any trouble with boyfriends ? ’ |