Example sentences of "they seem " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Michelangelo 's works have a strong , peculiar and marked character : they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely , and that mind so rich and abundant , that he never needed , or seems to disdain , to look abroad for foreign help . |
| 2 | Battle , Murder , and Death , Venuses and Psyches , the bloody and voluptuous , are the things in which they seem to delight : and these are portrayed in a cold , hard , and often tawdry style , with an almost universal deficiency of chiaroscuro ; the whole artificial , labored and theatrical . |
| 3 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 4 | ‘ They 're hardly making a secret of it , and after the exhibition they seem to have made , if Thomas is right , he could n't deny it . ’ |
| 5 | In order to achieve this they seem certain to continue to deny close analysis of their practices , for exposure could well generate the potential to contest the system by releasing knowledge to those the system was set up to control . |
| 6 | ‘ But they seem to trust in the power of the nine-tailed whip , and they will continue in that until a regiment breaks out of its barracks and makes its own way home . ’ |
| 7 | His hands are slim and well manicured , as becomes an artist-musician , somehow they seem especially sensitive — strong and caring hands ! |
| 8 | How slim and white they seem in the moonlight . |
| 9 | Designs composed of small masses of veneer forming a readable ‘ picture ’ , correspond roughly in looks , if not in colour , to subjects as they actually appear to the eye ; they seem to be in 3D even though they are flat , and to a degree they are naturalistic . |
| 10 | It is less easy , but more interesting , to try to understand why ancient radical doubts about the ability or language to express a genuine extra-linguistic reality have been revived in recent decades to the point where they seem to have achieved an almost popular appeal . |
| 11 | I like Graff 's proposals , but they seem to me utopian . |
| 12 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 13 | One of the things they seem to have agreed about , among innumerable disagreements , was the irrelevance of Virgil to their concerns . |
| 14 | This dodge would not be completely incredible , of course , if the participants were dense or desperate enough , but in Christopher Renshaw 's production , they seem to be neither , and particularly not the latter . |
| 15 | It was their first visit to Foula , and they seem to have been well received . |
| 16 | Because New Jersey does not have its own television station , or even a state newspaper , the candidates have bought expensive air time on the New York City-based stations and in Mr Florio 's case , they seem to be working . |
| 17 | But above all they seem to like an eyrie just beneath the eaves of the barn roof . |
| 18 | They seem driven by a Teutonic determination to rack up as many airline meals as possible . |
| 19 | Considerations on which they seem to draw include : how they construe their role as members of the police , which is itself informed by their interpretation of the organizational mandate of the force , by informal organizational requirements and occupational culture , and by local community expectations ; their knowledge of locale ; whether constables are able to resolve the momentary demands of the situation ; and their ability to handle the complex mix of law enforcement , local expectations , and the need for good public relations . |
| 20 | Therefore ‘ easing ’ , which is normally presented as the opposite to work , can for the neighbourhood men ( and also the community relations police ) be construed as official police work , and quite often much of the best community work is done by neighbourhood men when they seem to be relaxing . |
| 21 | Other authors list a larger number of viewpoints but they seem to be relatively minor variants on these three . |
| 22 | When his characters make love — or perform Mr. Lawrence 's equivalent for love-making — and they do nothing else — they not only lose all the amenities , refinements and graces which many centuries have built up in order to make love-making tolerable ; they seem to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution , passing backward beyond ape and fish to some hideous coitus of protoplasm . |
| 23 | As the worlds of savage and sexuality had gone together in the earlier poetry , now , together , they seem banished . |
| 24 | Are they not paradoxically reproducing the laws which exclude and oppress them , even as they seem to be escaping and subverting those laws ? |
| 25 | And some fiction ; women must be writing better books than they seem to be publishing . ’ |
| 26 | I find it galling that they seem to keep looking for jam today . |
| 27 | ‘ In Stratford in particular , there is a hard core that hate anglers and they seem to be able to sway the rest of the council at voting time . |
| 28 | The muddle that these two uses of the word cause is in part Marx 's and Engels 's fault because when they are talking about society based on communal property , that is , before false consciousness arises , they mean by ideology the total process of cognition including language , political ideas , social rules , etc. , but when they are talking of class society where false consciousness is present they seem to mean by ideology something much more restricted : moral , political , and religious ideas and values . |
| 29 | Indeed they seem to have foreshadowed later work by attaching such primary importance to domestication . |
| 30 | I believe that both views of their writing are justified in that they seem to have oscillated between these two poles and such oscillations are noted in several places in this book . |