Example sentences of "[pron] seems [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remained there for about two years before returning to England in July 1657 to take up a position as mathematics tutor to Joscelyne Percy , son of Algernon Percy , tenth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , at Petworth , an appointment which seems to have been due to the influence of the Puritan reformer Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | And it was this concern to avoid amy sectarian connotations which seems to have been uppermost in the minds of the organisers . |
| 3 | The only area which seems to have been devoid of buildings almost throughout the Roman period lay near the main centre of occupation in Birch Abbey and Evesham Street . |
| 4 | Hope asked the greatest number of questions , 782 , while Tite , who seems to have been anxious to display his professional knowledge as well as counteract Hope 's stylistic bias , was a persistent questioner , with 426 questions . |
| 5 | Colloredo , who seems to have been unpopular from the start , set about modernising the archdiocese in line with the reforms being undertaken by Joseph II ( Holy Roman Emperor and , with his mother , Maria Theresa , co-regent of the Habsburg Empire since the death of his father , Francis Stephen in 1765 ) . |
| 6 | Barnabas Thomas , cousin of Gordon Thomas , who seems to have been resident engineer of the site , explained that the fall was due to the cleavage of the strata and not a general slip of the bench . |
| 7 | From 1782 to 1786 the headmaster was William Taylor , who seems to have been responsible for directing Wordsworth 's attention to poetry . |
| 8 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 9 | Although John Ellis , a botanical and zoological Fellow , had written to Linnaeus , ‘ Miller 's Dictionary is the chief book that is read by gentlemen who study the art of gardening ’ , there seems to have been little pleasant exchange between them . |
| 10 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 11 | However , there seems to have been little empirical work done on such courses . |
| 12 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 13 | The elusive nature of the reactions seen in food intolerance makes it difficult to rule out this diagnosis without very thorough testing , and there seems to have been undue reliance on skin-prick tests in this study , despite the fact that these are unreliable indicators in most cases of food sensitivity . |
| 14 | On one hand there seems to have been strong appreciation of fine results achievable under dual control of violin and keyboard , as in Italian opera . |
| 15 | There seems to have been much genuine enthusiasm for the renewal of war with France in the early eighteenth century . |
| 16 | The belief in ‘ isolated ’ , ‘ primitive ’ hunter-gatherers , rather like the notion of ‘ pristine ’ forest favoured by biologists , is now being replaced by the theory that there seems to have been hundreds and thousands of years of interdependent contact with farmers and even ‘ states ’ . |
| 17 | Even in 1377 there seems to have been considerable evasion ; in 1381 this was certainly far worse . |
| 18 | In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent . |
| 19 | There seems to have been some obfuscation , perhaps deliberate , in the translation of the original Coptic text , but what Jesus appears to say is : ‘ Greetings , my venerable guardian Peter . |
| 20 | In this context there seems to have been some unexplained change of thinking on the part of the Inspectorate because the eight areas of experience ( in Curriculum 11–16 ) were seen as a way of considering a common curriculum , presumably satisfying all aspects of the curriculum including ‘ education and society ’ and ‘ working life ’ . |
| 21 | The Group retains a strong concern with the traditional macro-economic issues of fiscal and monetary policy , inflation , the exchange rates for sterling , UK trade policy and aggregate employment which its UK model was first designed to elucidate and which are still in certain respects important subjects of controversy at the analytic level ( although there seems to have been some convergence of short-term and even medium-term conditional predictions ) . |
| 22 | ‘ There seems to have been some personation going on here . |
| 23 | Again , there seems to have been cross-fertilization between Demant 's work and that of Eliot . |
| 24 | However , in urban areas this was less common and there seems to have been more opportunity for young people to stay in the parental home for longer , because of the greater availability of work in the locality ( Anderson , 1980 , pp. 25–6 ) . |
| 25 | What it seems to mean is that evolution did not normally proceed by a process of gradual change of one species into another over long periods of time . |
| 26 | With the last three murders it seems to have been pure chance that a suitable victim did , in fact , come along . ’ |
| 27 | Most of the high-tech inward investment in Ireland is concentrated around Dublin and in Cork , and it seems to have been remiss on the part of the Industrial 7Development Agency that having enticed DEC to Galway , it was not able to turn the town into a centre of high-tech inward investment so that if DEC — or others — pulled out , there was every chance of attracting new ones . |
| 28 | When , therefore , on 9 December 1949 , an amendment to the Military Aid Program bill proposed by the combined Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services sought to earmark the sum of $75 m. for what was eventually described as the ‘ general area of China ’ , in voting to cut the appropriation for the Military Assistance Program in half the House of Representatives may , as Acheson said , have been in one of its berserk moods ; but in order to save the Program , and its underpinning of the fledgling North Atlantic Alliance , Acheson was prepared to accept the amendment and , as he presents it , it seems to have been one of the easiest passages in that summer of difficult decisions . |
| 29 | It seems to have been unusual for any girl to go beyond straight typesetting to learn much about the other processes at this stage : a crucial point . |
| 30 | It seems to have been this last line which caused the editors of the Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound to provide one of the few pieces of misinformation in that admirable work . |