Example sentences of "[indef pn] seems " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone seems to have it in for his most recent book , The Larger Evils . |
| 2 | All I can tell you is that someone seems to want to harm you . |
| 3 | Psychosis is when there is , at times , such severe distress that someone seems to lose touch with the familiar world altogether . |
| 4 | Nobody seems to have explained this to her , but finally she understands . |
| 5 | To tell the truth , I find it pretty embarrassing , but nobody seems to mind . |
| 6 | The question nobody seems able or willing to answer is when the ground attack may come . |
| 7 | Nobody seems to want to tell me anything round here . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Nobody seems to know who I am here , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Nobody seems to mind ; as an aberration it rates low , on a level with Christianity or driving carefully . |
| 10 | Nobody seems to have taken on JTR 's corruption , however . |
| 11 | Nobody seems to remember them now . |
| 12 | To start with , nobody seems to have seen the original cylinder , which was supposed to have been recorded when Wilde visited an exhibition in Paris in the year 1900 . |
| 13 | ‘ I have tried to find the owner , but nobody seems to have lost one . |
| 14 | While everyone puzzles over how these animals first arrived on the Isle of Man , stories of tailless cats being found in such faraway places as Russia , Malaysia , and China all leading to new theories , nobody seems to have considered that the tailless gene might first have occurred on the Isle of Man itself . |
| 15 | As long as he operates within the law , nobody seems to suggest that an obstetrician or other medical practitioner should provide his services free , or that receiving a fee makes either his motives or his reliability suspect ; and clinics can legally be run for profit . |
| 16 | ‘ Even now nobody seems to know what triggered it off , ’ says Bethan 28 , an ophthalmic optician from Nottingham . |
| 17 | What makes it worse is that nobody seems to know what happened . ’ |
| 18 | But whoever Squidgy and her chum are , nobody seems to have told them . |
| 19 | But solipsism is intuitively unacceptable ; and nobody seems to be able to come up with an argument from analogy that will do the trick . |
| 20 | Nobody seems to have told him about his humiliation . |
| 21 | However , nobody seems to blame the clients for falling prey to their own greed and stupidity . |
| 22 | Thus nobody seems to notice that the oddest thing about the STV is precisely that it is a single vote — for that is what it is , no matter how many preferences are expressed . |
| 23 | Nobody seems to want homework in . |
| 24 | And nobody seems to be , give us any answer to that . |
| 25 | At an emotional meeting earlier this week , Terry told me ‘ I 've lost touch with the modern game , Les , nobody seems to be interested in drinking these days , all they want to do is get on with the football . ’ |
| 26 | The cafes have their pavement tables out , nobody seems to be in a hurry , and the atmosphere is that of a relaxed Mediterranean city . |
| 27 | The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . |
| 28 | Nobody seems to have put astronomy near chemistry ; and the trouble with all series is that progress often seems to happen on the frontiers of sciences that on the philosopher 's map seem as far apart as Finland and Portugal . |
| 29 | ‘ Well it 's a it 's a it 's a place and it 's a g-girl and a boy … and the-they 've got obviously something which is is made some made made made well it 's just beginning to go and be rather unpleasant ( ha ! ha ! ) um and this is in the this is the the woman and she 's put putting some stuff and the it 's it 's that 's being really too big t-to do and nobody seems to have got anything there at all at all and er it 's … |
| 30 | Example 44 is from ‘ Vissi d'arte ’ in Tosca at a point where the orchestra plays the melody ( small notes ) while the singer weaves a web of narration in different ways — reciting , joining the orchestral melody , forming a decorative counter-melody , etc. — all within the space of a few bars : There is great skill here , yet nobody seems to have recognized it for what it really is — the solution for preserving melodic and formal unity while at the same time using words with freedom and flexibility . |