Example sentences of "[pron] seem [to-vb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seem to remember that the first information I ever had about Ben was that he had measles ! |
| 2 | I seem to recall that the hon. Gentleman was one of those who until recently persistently argued that standards in our schools were not falling and that he resisted pressure for changes in teaching methods and other ideas designed to correct the fall . |
| 3 | Without in any way prejudging what my right hon. Friend the Chancellor will do in the Budget , I seem to recall that the last Labour Government — on the back of a huge borrowing requirement — cut taxes just in advance of the 1979 election . |
| 4 | In an earlier paper ( Huxley , 1991a ) I presented the evidence available at that time which seemed to suggest that the effectiveness of case management in various contexts depends upon narrowly defined groups , focused care and relevant outcome assessments . |
| 5 | This may , of course , have been a retrospective opinion that was at least tinged with 25 years ' subsequent experience and challenged , both before and after , the worldwide definitions of the late 1940s which seemed to require that the Vietminh should have been put into either one of two boxes , nationalist or communist , but not both . |
| 6 | Otherwise , one wonders , how could there constantly be those ‘ asides ’ , which seem to reveal that the participants were actually aware the game was up or rather perhaps had never started ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | IBM also says that AD/Cycle and AIX CASE tool builders will be able to support both OS/2 and AIX development systems ‘ with a minimum of incremental effort ’ which seems to suggest that the same will apply to applications developed with either , making it easier for users to hedge their bets by making their new mainframe applications migratable to the generality of Unix environments . |
| 9 | Either a study focuses upon the formally defined incumbents of leadership roles in large organizations , or it must somehow identify the real power holders behind the careful façades built by constitutions or organization charts — which seems to assume that the power of the real elite is known in advance of undertaking the empirical research ( Mills , 1956 , pp. 366 — 7 ) . |
| 10 | This includes Schenk , despite her stated belief in the essentially ironic character of wisdom literature ; a belief which seems to imply that the best lesson one can ever be taught is to be cynical ( which might , sadly , be true ) . |
| 11 | Gloucester Place seemed awash with the carriages of other guests attending the ball and Emily chafed as she sat waiting impatiently to move on , watched by ladies ' maids and servants of the lower orders who seemed to think that the spectacle was for their pleasure . |
| 12 | This was enough for Hennessy , who seemed to think that the policeman and the Captain were starting to get on too damn well for his liking . |
| 13 | One of the things that always intrigued me , and still does , concerned his Oxford tailor who seemed to think that the practice of having the brevet just above the left breast pocket on the tunic should he reviewed . |
| 14 | She seemed to believe that the truth was great and would prevail , so why waste time spinning a lot of fancy theories ? |
| 15 | For all your alleged love for the poor and the oppressed , you seem to think that the public ought to be selfish when it votes . |
| 16 | No one seemed to appreciate that the ‘ body ’ they were discussing was actually the person I loved . ’ |
| 17 | The analysis is usually based on the strict modernism which was the ideology of the professions involved , and is epitomized in comments such as ‘ we seem to find that the aesthetics of an industrial product will take care of themselves automatically after we have provided a balance between function , simplicity and utility ’ ( Bayley 1979 : 71 ) . |
| 18 | Couples is a naturally high flighter of the ball and that , together with his length , is an advantage at Augusta , particularly since everyone seems to agree that the greens are firmer than they have been for years . |
| 19 | I do n't want to talk about it , too many people want to go on about it — but then they seem to think that The Sundays are part of the Manchester thing as well . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't want to talk about it , too many people want to go on about it — but then they seem to think that The Sundays are part of the Manchester thing as well . ’ |
| 21 | But back in England , the view amongst English supporters is very different , for they seem to think that the Dutch regard the English fans as the number one target . |
| 22 | Many of the constituency cases with which I have dealt in recent months have especially worried me because they seem to show that the financial hardship now experienced by many students is especially severe for those who come from low-income families . |
| 23 | ‘ Khan , why — ’ Suddenly he seemed to realise that the cut on Burun 's arm had ceased to bleed . |
| 24 | He seemed to suggest that the problems with the policy had largely been caused by the Government withdrawing funding from local government for domiciliary and other services , thus forcing people into residential care . |
| 25 | He seemed to think that the Tokyo race was particularly important . |
| 26 | On the contrary , progress was essential to their optimistic vision of history because it seemed to guarantee that the world was moving in a purposeful direction towards a morally significant goal . |
| 27 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 28 | It seemed to suggest that the GLC and the LTE must try to break even , a course which was certainly feasible if fares were sufficiently increased and services sufficiently reduced , but which was politically as unacceptable to the government as it was anathema to the GLC . |
| 29 | The provision of horses was unexpected , but curiously cheering , because it seemed to show that the giants were sending Floy and Snodgrass off in reasonable style , as if they expected them to return . |
| 30 | Again , it seems to follow that the perceptual experiences that observers have in the act of seeing is not uniquely determined by the images on their retinas . |