Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] seem to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old age rarely seems to be regarded by a writer as interesting in itself : it is relevant above all as an influence on a young , new life , and never as the culmination of a lifetime . |
| 2 | Private space where people have some resources , is smart and well cared for , but the public spaces always seem to be mucky or breaking down . |
| 3 | Secondly , the strategy has identified that access to outpatient and non-urgent casualty services run by public hospitals also seems to be declining for public patients . |
| 4 | The Victorians also come in for considerable attention , some of it with a feminist slant , while , not surprisingly perhaps , Latin America still seems to be chic . |
| 5 | After that , if differences in income per worker in different enterprises still seemed to be excessive , it would be reasonable to introduce a progressive tax on enterprise income within each republic or province , based on the level of the enterprise 's net income per worker . |
| 6 | We have failed to grasp it and , although some of the eastern European countries now seem to be succeeding in the adaptation to a market economy , many others , including Russia , are likely to fail . |
| 7 | Yet the yawning emptiness out here upon the vast deck already seemed to be swallowing any sense of connexion with the interior of the fortress-monastery … |
| 8 | No Roman Catholic movement of the left had appeared to help Rome in its political struggles at a time when the suffrage was spreading ; in spite of a few ‘ Christian socialists ’ , Roman Catholicism still seemed to be tied to social and political conservatism . |
| 9 | Personal appearances always seemed to be a bone of contention . |
| 10 | The guilloche of the outer border also seems to be of thicker strands than the three-strand guilloche of the latter . |
| 11 | Its actual pace often seems to him interchangeable with Allegro , both words indicating more about character than speed . |
| 12 | Yet to the outsider postwar Japanese society still seems to be striking not in its similarities to , but in its differences from , the West . |
| 13 | But when you 're bottom of the Premier League little seems to be fair . |
| 14 | ‘ The central problem still seems to be that the UK is generally less adept than other developed economies at moving out of slow growth industries into faster growing ones , such as scientific instruments and electronics ’ ( Atkinson , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | Many of the arcuate lengths of contemporary coastlines now seem to be the edges of Triassic basins . |
| 16 | Large companies still seem to be finding it increasingly difficult to retain top management . |
| 17 | Despite pleas for a better blend , the penetration of practice by well-grounded theory still seems to be a painfully slow process . |
| 18 | The search for accurate , non-invasive tools , for the follow up of treated patients still seems to be needed . |
| 19 | For Joe Trace , a door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products , and his wife Violet , the good times finally seem to be rolling . |
| 20 | What is extraordinary is that it is taking off in England — the land of the Stiff Upper Lip , where the primary emotion often seems to be fear of embarrassment . |
| 21 | Mrs Holloway says that she 's sad that a once great industry now seems to be in terminal decline . |
| 22 | A key phrase here seems to me to be ‘ gentle figure who handles his firing weapon ’ . |
| 23 | Their prime option still seems to be to kick . |
| 24 | The arguments against restorative proctocolectomy for familial adenomatous polyposis on the grounds that the operation carries a much greater morbidity than ileorectal anastomosis now seem to be unfounded , particularly when the need for annual and sometimes difficult sigmoidoscopy after ileorectal anastomosis is considered . |
| 25 | Fat Paul still seemed to be reeling at this development . |
| 26 | Indeed , in Britain , the short-lived post-Thatcher pro-Europeanism has been dissipated in a wave of Atlanticism and jingoism — talk of political union now seems to be off the agenda . |
| 27 | Medical advice is generally sought at some stage , but the action taken by general practitioners still seems to be suboptimal and shows considerable geographical variation . |
| 28 | More people with incontinence seem to be consulting their doctors about it than has been found in previous studies , but the procedures carried out by general practitioners still seem to be suboptimal . |
| 29 | The situation for people disabled from childhood or from birth appears to be slightly different ; there is the same pattern of increasing satisfaction preceding a downturn in later years , but the start of this upward trend often seems to be delayed until early adulthood . |
| 30 | Normally developing children often seem to be inexhaustible sources of spoken language ; they seem to relish their developing abilities and to use them on every possible occasion . |