Example sentences of "seems [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't want it to happen , but it seems now whatever we do we ca n't prevent it . |
| 2 | I think complaints about erm and it seems where we have the problem of our own making if you like with this improved road scheme we are installing traffic calming erm and er I think that to be told that it 's going to be left and looked at in relation to all the other er sites needing traffic calming is a little bit er |
| 3 | It seems or it seemed to us till lately — a natural thing that love ( under certain conditions ) should be regarded as a noble and ennobling passion : it is only if we imagine ourselves trying to explain this doctrine to Aristotle , Virgil , St Paul , or the author of Beomuy , that we become aware how far from natural it is . |
| 4 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 5 | It seems that David had at first great difficulty in making his way with the public , and was several times unsuccessful in his efforts after fame . |
| 6 | The local queen falls in love with him , and it seems that the journey to Italy might be called off . |
| 7 | In addition , it often seems that police culture possesses a dramaturgical or melodramatic inflexion , as the increasingly autocratic operational style is brought to bear in contests with new generations of dissenting workers , political radicals , and the largely dispossessed criminal underclass . |
| 8 | With hindsight it seems that the prevailing structures of police practice will remain as powerful as ever , for at a conference on policing at Bristol University ( 1988 ) , the newly retired Sir Kenneth admitted that police culture had defeated many of his attempts to bring a new ethic to the managerial style during his reign as commissioner of the metropolis . |
| 9 | It seems that we must similarly accept the quoted 3,000 poisoning deaths and 100,000 hospitalizations per year from barbiturate overdose , because the industry contributes £168 million each year in exports … |
| 10 | It seems that the Third Law of Aerodynamics is especially at work in this case . |
| 11 | Since Legnani first danced the famous thirty-two fouettës in Swan Lake , it sometimes seems that choreographers lacking ideas for a spectacular finish to a solo , send the dancer spinning faster and faster round the stage , or set them centre stage and make them turn with increasingly difficult poses . |
| 12 | It seems that there is always someone around to make life difficult : sometime this spring the New Routes book was stolen from Pete 's Eats . |
| 13 | It seems that Carnedd Uchaf has crept into the list , but is this not subsidiary summit of Foel Gras rather than a 3000'er in its own right ? |
| 14 | This is certainly not the language that one uses of a resident sage or recognized ‘ master ’ ; and it seems that in Paris at that time there was in fact no one who esteemed Pound in either of those ways . |
| 15 | It seems that on the basis of Canto 7 we can explain Pound 's hostility to Virgil very simply indeed : it was precisely Virgil 's melancholy , the lacrimae rerum which endears him to so many , that Pound could not stomach , so sanguine as he was and so determined to remain so . |
| 16 | And thus it seems that liberal social democracy cossets and protects the aesthete as no other form of society does . |
| 17 | If this is so , then it seems that for ‘ the art one serves ’ one might as well read : the culture one serves , the historical period one serves , even the society one serves ( perhaps an international society ) . |
| 18 | Pound 's disparagement of Milton , for instance , was , I am convinced , most salutary twenty and thirty years ago ; I still agree with him against the academic admirers of Milton ; though to me it seems that the situation has changed . |
| 19 | IT SEEMS that Roland Franklin , the latest unbundler to appear in the UK , has made a fatal error in the preparation of his £697m break-up bid for stationery and packaging group DRG . |
| 20 | It seems that every time I come back from a big disappointment I win . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We simply went to work like normal citizens during martial law and now it seems that 's a crime , ’ he went on , gesturing at the 20 heads of party factory cells who were gathered to discuss the future of communism in Poland . |
| 22 | IT SEEMS that even in its own time the thirteenth-century motet was considered by many to be a sophisticated , subtle genre , only likely to appeal to the literati . |
| 23 | Although it seems that the South is recovering its appetite for fresh fish , with restaurants buying about 30 per cent of the fish sold in the area , there is no doubt that there has been a positive nosedive in the demand for fresh fish in Britain as whole . |
| 24 | In both cases it seems that the problem lay in the transmission of the activation signal across the target cell membrane , once insulin has bound to the surface receptor . |
| 25 | IT SEEMS that these days Martina Navratilova needs all the inspiration she can get . |
| 26 | ‘ It seems that it was taken from the car park next to her office but abandoned almost immediately . |
| 27 | It seems that Watkins 's energies have gone into making sure he has got the details right at the expense of analysis . |
| 28 | It seems that each of these can be broken down into five identifiable stages . |
| 29 | Seems that the practice is quite legal this side of the English Channel , at least for hungry British troops passing through . |
| 30 | At first it seems that we can draw a sharp distinction between perceptions and attitudes . |