Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] seem [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It emphasises that she is not the awful old termagant she has so far seemed to be . |
| 2 | The examples discussed so far seem to be quite clear cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 3 | we only now seem to be getting round to recognising it . |
| 4 | You seldom did — there so often seemed to be a story breaking just as you were thinking of getting away . |
| 5 | Because certainly the thing that particularly struck me about these design and technology A levels which so often seem to be sort of er erm a contrived project , not not a real one . |
| 6 | The singers appear in a suitably concert platform balance ( not always the case , even in live recordings ) and the orchestra are set in a natural spread , only occasionally seeming to be boosted a little by the engineers . |
| 7 | This distinction between the illustrative and prescriptive character of teaching materials , though obvious enough , does not always seem to be recognized . |
| 8 | But it is important to affirm the independence in principle of the linguistic and social analysis at this stage of the work , especially as this does not always seem to be recognized . |
| 9 | Women often feel that they are not at risk because they do not feel themselves to be associated with any of the so called ‘ high risk groups ’ and , although we are encouraged to have safer sex , AIDS does not really seem to be an issue for us . |
| 10 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 11 | Livestock can appear to become split between two or more pieces of glass and while this may not initially seem to be a problem , it can become very irritating when you have to keep altering your viewing position to see your fish and other livestock in their entirety . |
| 12 | Data for calculating the thermal history more objectively do not yet seem to be available ( but see Chadwick 1985a ) . |
| 13 | I think its a case of the grass being greener on the other side , you know , you never seem to be happy with what you have yourself you always see it in somebody else , gosh I wish I had her hair or her skin or her body shape , you just never seem to be satisfied with what you 've got and yet other people see you as looking very attractive |
| 14 | Just never seems to be , we never seem to have a lot of time . |
| 15 | because of a girl , I really think he 's loyal in that way , in that sense , because they are very close they have a laugh and I know when we 're with them they 're always like seem to be impressing everyone but I 'm sure when they 're together they have like , you know , human conversations , they must do , they ca n't always be talking about screwing and you know , which girls have got big tits and all that |
| 16 | In the past , many tea companies have included other teas in the blend , but more and more now seem to be reverting to pure China tea for this popular flavoured brew . |
| 17 | The tiles directly underneath seemed to be worn after years of having bare feet placed on them . |
| 18 | There are plenty of areas of sea floor with Recent sedimentary cover of sorts , but — at least on the inner shelves — this nearly always seems to be moving to and Fro and not building up . |
| 19 | Kinnear said : ‘ It was a marvellous display by our lads — but the fans up here seem to be getting hysterical . |
| 20 | There also sometimes seems to be a feeling that the media could have got themselves better organised and asked for the material earlier . |
| 21 | In the visual arts even less seems to be understood about the viewer-in-the-picture , especially about the nature of the ‘ illuminating experience ’ ( Taylor , 1986 , p. 160 ) , that may accompany the aesthetic response . |
| 22 | But I do n't always seem to be fully in control of myself when you 're around . ’ |
| 23 | Acting on that basis , the kind of socialism that he advocated was then , was guild socialism , or more popularly nowadays , workers ' control , and what he would have hoped to see was something which , most mysteriously , does n't yet even now seem to be coming to the fore , the use of industrial power by the workers not merely for economic advantage but for political ends . |
| 24 | He does n't really seem to be very careful about distinguishing intellect from the one and , and so forth , does n't really , he 's not , he 's not really focusing on that difference and so seems to let it lapse in a less than useful way . |
| 25 | But , I mean that D P team do a lot of work on the Catty questionnaires which does n't really seem to be er sort of fully acknowledged at the moment . |
| 26 | He did n't even seem to be listening to her . |
| 27 | There do n't even seem to be any local buses . |
| 28 | He did n't even seem to be aware that a chill north wind was blowing . |
| 29 | To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role . |
| 30 | And occasionally she did n't even seem to be acting at all . |