Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [modal v] 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 | Evergreen this farm might seem to be . |
| 9 | This trust would seem to be an important issue of the future as the need arises for difficult decisions to be made . |
| 10 | 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% . |
| 11 | Immersion in this view would seem to be a kind of baptism which mysteriously induces the gift of tongues . |
| 12 | 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 . |