Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are simply not they do n't expect the level of sexual tension that they seem to be identifying as a problem in Oxford . |
| 2 | So my skin began to look better , my guts were giving a great , big heartfelt vote of thanks , but I went on losing weight that it seemed to me I could ill afford to lose . |
| 3 | It will be shown in a later chapter that there seems to be no evidence to indicate that he held that post before holding the kazaskerlik , while there is positive evidence that he held it after holding the kazaskerlik . |
| 4 | In fact , she found in her review that there seemed to be a great of continuity , that again and again over these forty years researchers were reporting similar sorts of social and psychological impacts of unemployment . |
| 5 | Common in aesthetic involvement is the recognition that what seemed like mimetic realism is actually an effect of convention , genre , form , or some other kind of artifice . |
| 6 | You will also have made a discovery that what seems to you to be the main features or focus may be seen differently by other people with whom you come in contact . |
| 7 | I agree with Mr. Beloff that there seems to be no direct authority on the question whether , and to what extent , the controlling authority owes a duty of fairness to the appointed representative thus indirectly affected by its decisions . |
| 8 | Tralhaut comments that he seemed to be almost glorying in his failure to break down the barriers and ‘ storm the fortress ’ of his love 's frozen heart . |
| 9 | Although the man moved quickly the moment was so vivid to Marian that it seemed to her as though time had frozen and become an icicle of stillness . |
| 10 | The therapist pointed out to Liz that she seemed to be trying to get away from both the shop and the flat , and Liz then talked about her life with her boyfriend and that she felt she needed to start afresh . |
| 11 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 12 | Just above the spot where Carey had stood to fish was a spread of broom , so close to the edge that it seemed to be rooted in granite . |
| 13 | It is a central tenet of the ethogenic approach that what seems to be one and only one institution may be embedded in more than one theory , and what may seem to be common and even co-ordinated practices may differ very widely indeed . |
| 14 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 15 | There is also the consideration that she seems to be flirting with the possibility of committing herself to re-entering mainstream education locally . |
| 16 | yeah I think what , what has happened at the moment is that he would be almost helpless because there are so many things that are wrong with the world that it seems to be because we get so much information as a |
| 17 | The only thing that everybody seems to be sure about is that abortions will continue to be performed despite the new law . |
| 18 | The norm of " the language as a whole " is not the objective reality that it seems to be in Bloch 's definition , and some less absolute standard of comparison has to be found ( see 2.4 ) . |
| 19 | History , for Nicol , is not the simple matter that it seems for Crichton-Smith , ‘ because afterwards is where we live , where we can resolve what happened , according to one , according to another ’ . |
| 20 | If the strategy is not soundly based , there is every risk that what seems on the surface a good idea is , in fact , misdirected and misconceived . |
| 21 | Her gaze was dark , and hinted at some impossibly deep sense of pain ; and for a moment Lucy felt a certain regret , if not shame , at the way that she seemed to be ready to manipulate any situation for whatever advantage she could get . |
| 22 | And sometimes , leaving his office , he would close his door in such a way that there seemed to be something or someone intriguing behind it , as Richard Miller noticed when he went to talk to him about banking for the contras ; it was deliberately stage-like , impressive . |
| 23 | Another safeguard that it seems to me that any such policy should have should be that development of the site must be possible without breaching reasonable and appropriate environmental standards . |
| 24 | I mean gender is one issue , but it 's not the only one , and one of the ones that it seems to me that we 've missed out on erm to date , when we 're talking about International Women 's Day , is race . |
| 25 | The management ref refused to talk all the time and after a while it just got depressing , the fact that nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 26 | Then , exasperated by her own confusion , and the fact that they seemed to be going round in circles , Ellie demanded , ‘ Feargal , just tell me what it is you want to know — what , in fact , we 're supposed to be talking about ! ’ |
| 27 | There was a cool mockery in his deep voice , and she turned to glare at him , hating him for the fact that he seemed to be deriving amusement from her discomfort . |
| 28 | Howard might well have been impressed by the importance given to classification by TDC , despite the fact that it seems to be unfashionable in western European administrations . |
| 29 | And while we 're at the police station I suggest that you have a word with someone there about the fact that you seem to be attracting some unwelcome attention . |
| 30 | We became eerily conscious of the fact that there seemed to be an absence even of wild life : animal , bird or insect . |