Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the state of affairs at a normal sports centre , where everyone else seems to be skilled and athletic and you too embarrassed to start . |
| 2 | But he or she still seems to be unencumbered by , for example , the class , gender or ethnic relations which are of course socially constructed . |
| 3 | Within an office environment where there seldom seems to be time to learn new software this approach may find a considerable following . |
| 4 | I quickened my step to reach the quieter part of the hall , where it always seemed darker . |
| 5 | The family in the song is the circle of friends , where it almost seemed , because we were so identical , that for anybody to make any progress in life , we 'd have to split up . |
| 6 | Although everyone somehow seemed to have been looking the other way at the time , the young man 's explanation was accepted and written down in his file to make it true . |
| 7 | Most writers of whatever kind know what it is to write and to discover in the process that someone else seems to be standing by . |
| 8 | Clarissa pointed out that nobody else seemed to be making a fuss . |
| 9 | But after the first few meetings … well , the people there are nice enough … it 's just that we never seem to hear from them between our quarterly meetings " . |
| 10 | A strange fact about those of us who live in the West is that we always seem to want more than we have . |
| 11 | Our relationship does seem to be improving but obviously I 'm worried that we now seem to be paying 50% more than we expected . |
| 12 | Even the least of these would give us vastly more sediment than we normally seem to find preserved for us in our stratigraphical record . |
| 13 | The same movements are probably much more in evidence in western Europe than we usually seem willing to admit . |
| 14 | Research rather suggested that there often seemed to be a dual political system of interests , action , and demands at the local level . |
| 15 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 16 | She pointed out that they rarely seemed to express affection towards Pamela and that this might be making her feel insecure . |
| 17 | Women are making such progress in the world of French crime that they sometimes seem to be monopolising the police report headlines . |
| 18 | The higher vertebrates , fossil mammals and dinosaurs in particular , have been described in so many books that they sometimes seem to have as much flesh and blood as any animal in the zoo . |
| 19 | It always bothers me that they never seem , you know , very warm |
| 20 | Played by people who keep so busy with minute details that they always seem harassed . |
| 21 | ( It is tempting to say that they are rare , but the truth is that they only seem rare because we avoid them . ) |
| 22 | If she was her mother 's sort then she would never never get among the life that everybody else seemed to get . |
| 23 | HERE IN THE STORE is where you should feel a little scared , except it still seems like a game , and the hardware lining the walls , to the uninitiated , still like toys . |
| 24 | Although it hardly seemed fair racing a man at least 15 years our senior , who could resist going just a little faster every time we saw his face contorted with exertion , glaring up at us like Charles Laughton in Mutiny On The Bounty ? |
| 25 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 26 | The tiborium itself is thought to be a masterpiece of Renaissance art , although it hardly seems to be in the same class as that on Santa Maria delle Grazie . |
| 27 | He liked her , she knew , although he never seemed to gather the courage to do anything about it . |
| 28 | Although he never seems to have performed military service in person for Philip the Fair , he certainly did homage for his French lands in 1300 . |
| 29 | Once again , the fiction of Hollywood merged with fact ; scenes of fantasy portrayed on celluloid for entertainment — like those in Easy Rider had become , it was said , the acted-out realities of a group of people whose minds had been expanded to breaking point , until they performed deeds so indescribably vile that it barely seemed possible that one human being could inflict such wounds upon another for no apparent reason . |
| 30 | Timothy Hutton was looking uncomfortable and McLeish said that it just seemed a lot to him . |