Example sentences of "seem to [be] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything always seemed to be crap for actors and you just had to put up with it — while the present corruption continued . |
| 2 | The press seemed to be full of stories about the fractious behaviour of students , the circulation of revolutionary appeals to the population , the degeneration of relations between Russians and Poles , and the fires in St Petersburg . |
| 3 | I mean no one noticed anything unusual about her and she seemed to be full of plans for the wedding . ’ |
| 4 | It seemed to be full of alcoves and angles and small grouped areas of being , though the room itself was a plain rectangle : fish swam in a high globe , a monstrously enlarged goldfish bowl on top of a bookcase , and flowers and foliage stood on small pedestals here and there . |
| 5 | It seemed to be full of levers . |
| 6 | Spillovers seem to be large in computers , communications equipment , electronic components , and aircraft , industries that do an extensive amount of R&D . |
| 7 | In the 1980s attention was drawn to the small bowel , where the secretory and motor responses to stress seem to be different in IBS patients . |
| 8 | That many of today 's church musicians seem to be unfamiliar with developments in hymnody over the last thirty years is noted as significant by the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland . |
| 9 | They seem to be full of references to lofty things . |
| 10 | In fact the left brain seems to be bored with spaces . |
| 11 | In the process , we shall explore some recent attempts to construct a theoretical notion of ‘ topic ’ , a notion which seems to be essential to concepts such as ‘ relevance ’ and ‘ coherence ’ , but which itself is very difficult to pin down . |
| 12 | Cullen ( 1974 ) , unreported , seems to be contrary to cases such as Mainwaring . |
| 13 | Many people 's experience of parents ' evenings seems to be unsatisfactory with parents attending through almost a sense of obligation and duty rather than that of pleasure . |
| 14 | Feminists have noted that it always seems to be appropriate for men to treat women as if they were intimates or subordinates . |
| 15 | Commercial confidentiality is understandable , but resistance to giving information often seems to be endemic among producers . |
| 16 | I mean it seems to be available for youngsters but afterwards |
| 17 | The same seems to be true of vitamins A and E. The best food sources of selenium are fish and whole grains . |
| 18 | Spontaneous and unrehearsed music seems to be acceptable to clergy who do not know about music . |
| 19 | And Bill Wyman seems to be scared of adults . |
| 20 | One of its features , a lessening of the body's. resistance to infection , seems to be common in homosexuals who do not have AIDS . |
| 21 | Seems to be full of bed-rolls and clothes and dross . ’ |
| 22 | Pride and Prejudice seems to be full of conversations or references to them and this reveals the character of the speaker but usually the entire dialogue centres around one particular person mainly called Mr. Darcy . |
| 23 | High dose oral mesalazine does not seem to be nephrotoxic in rats when given for four weeks but both rats and dogs develop renal papillary necrosis when fed high dose mesalazine for 6 to 12 months . |
| 24 | Dustin played a timid bank clerk who dreams of being a ladies ' man , although he does not seem to be short of girlfriends . |