Example sentences of "[pron] seem [to-vb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing I seem to do is right . |
| 2 | ‘ There were quite a few interesting pieces , notably miniatures from children 's sets , which seem to have been popular in Holland in those earlier periods . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ] . |
| 4 | And it was this concern to avoid amy sectarian connotations which seems to have been uppermost in the minds of the organisers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Though some of them seem to have been familiar with the writings of some of the others , each worked independently and developed a personal view of the mystical life . |
| 7 | Although about two-thirds of students still came from the gentry estate , an increasing proportion of them seem to have been poor . |
| 8 | And so , she said , ‘ You seem to have been busy this morning , Isabel , ’ but absently remembering the bumping noises from above and the journeys her sister had made to the front sitting room ( locking the door after her ) and back again to the attic ( locking the door ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | From 1782 to 1786 the headmaster was William Taylor , who seems to have been responsible for directing Wordsworth 's attention to poetry . |
| 13 | All we seemed to get is abstract art which people in Harlow means so few appreciate which I quite understand . . . |
| 14 | We seem to have been harsh in criticising the " in rough then neat " writers . |
| 15 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 16 | There seem to have been two main spurs to this research and writing : fascination about the intellectual origins of American republicanism and worry about the civic health of the nation especially after the trauma of the Vietnam war . |
| 17 | Within this transition , there seem to have been two distinct phases of development , the second of which was ushered in with the final abandonment of all residual concerns with cultural and linguistic policy , and thus indirectly with English in schools . |
| 18 | There seem to have been two principal concerns . |
| 19 | In 1938 there seem to have been tentative discussions with the Colonial Office over a sell-out to the British government . |
| 20 | Nor does there seem to have been any wholesale burning of books and manuscripts . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 24 | However , there seems to have been little empirical work done on such courses . |
| 25 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There seems to have been much genuine enthusiasm for the renewal of war with France in the early eighteenth century . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Even in 1377 there seems to have been considerable evasion ; in 1381 this was certainly far worse . |