Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] seem to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for other jurists , six out of eleven cases seem to be interpolated , so we are left with five , one of Pomponius and four of Paul . |
| 2 | They had explained that microlighting was like a return to the early days of flying but two emergency landings within eight minutes seemed to be stretching nostalgia too far . |
| 3 | They had explained that microlighting was like a return to the early days of flying but two emergency landings within eight minutes seemed to be stretching nostalgia too far . |
| 4 | THE Eight Bells seemed to be one of those pubs that do most of their trade in the late evenings , for at seven o'clock the saloon bar was deserted . |
| 5 | In fact , libertarian ideologists seem to be scarce in the Young Conservatives over the whole West Midland region . |
| 6 | The northern , pale-blue eyes seemed to be everywhere , and he was reputed to have a remarkable instinct for knowing whom to praise and whom to blame . |
| 7 | An interesting , if somewhat methodologically weak , study by Flaherty and his colleagues ( 1983 ) on adolescent pregnancies seems to be in line with this notion of planning ability . |
| 8 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 9 | The biosynthesis of type 2 chains seems to be regulated differently to type 1 chains , however , because Lewis X , the type 2 isomer of Lewis a , is not present to any extent in normal rectum . |
| 10 | MYSTICAL manifestations seem to be in the news at the moment , what with the imminent publication of a book about recent sightings of the Virgin Mary in a London tower block . |
| 11 | In systems integration , for example , Gartner Group rates Bull fourth in Europe and sixth in the world , which is a fact that continually gets lost amid all of Bull 's other bad news — and the French authorities seem to be oblivious to how badly the regular injections of state cash to prop Bull up play in the outside world , causing the company to be regarded as a corporate basket case that would no longer exist if it were subjected to the normal commercial disciplines faced by all its foreign competitors . |
| 12 | The Hancock Half Hours seemed to be finally at an end and both Ken and his public were ready for something in which ‘ Stop messing about ’ would mean something more than an admonition to an actor to concentrate on his script . |
| 13 | When Kostomarov , probably in collaboration with kindred spirits , wrote an emotive tract which concluded by saying that " Ukraine will become an independent People 's State in a Slavonic union " , his cultural activities seemed to be taking on clear political overtones . |
| 14 | His brown eyes seemed to be saying things again , things she wanted to hear him speak . |
| 15 | Erm all the s all the all the rumours you hear about public schools seem to be true . |
| 16 | It does not follow that the relationships with each of these figures is the same as different satisfactions seem to be derived from each . |
| 17 | The intention is to use this information to throw light on why British companies seem to be more reluctant than their US counterparts to make use of such methods . |
| 18 | However , there are fears that transport congestion , environmental damage and other symptoms of over-development in the south east may prove a positive disincentive to growth once the Tunnel is opened , and that the main beneficiary will be the Nord Pas de Calais region , especially as French companies seem to be ahead of their British counterparts in planning for the future . |
| 19 | Few auditions seem to be chosen from the works of Samuel Beckett — Waiting for Godot and Endgame are the only two which seem to offer possibilities . |
| 20 | Some mythic elements seem to be transformations of this cult practice , for example the episode where the young goddess Britomartis leaps into the sea to escape the clutches of Minos , or the contest at Aptera between Muses and Sirens which ended in the defeat of the Sirens , who then threw themselves into the sea . |
| 21 | As she drifted mindlessly in the shimmering water all her resistance to the past few days seemed to be dissolving away within the strength and power of his embrace . |
| 22 | The divide in English studies seems to be between those who want to bring the rift out into the open , and those who prefer to pretend that it does n't exist . |
| 23 | Some officers seem to be unaware that in terms of the number of people who do it , cycling 's second only to walking . |
| 24 | The old direct questions seemed to be quite a good technique . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , some males seem to be irresistible and end up as harem holders . |
| 26 | Local increase in the number of intraepithelial lymphocytes seems to be an early event in the coeliac lesion ( the so called infiltrative lesion ) . |
| 27 | British players seem to be Francophiles anyway , and their discipline and bravura make they natural Berlioz players . |
| 28 | With regard to pedagogic mediation ( teaching as a pragmatic activity ) two interdependent processes seem to be involved . |
| 29 | NORTHERN Ireland 's weekly newspapers seem to be holding their own in the recession but admit to having to work hard to earn every penny . |
| 30 | The infant mortality of first born children seems to be very high in most communities , if they were born to mothers less than 20 years old . |