Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] seem [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London 's Theatre Museum could rout its critics by putting on its very first , entitled Cinderella And Her Very Ugly Sisters , as well as a Panto Fun Week of workshops where families can find out how Daisy the Cow negotiates the stage or how a handsome actor is turned into an Ugly Sister , or personally seem to be a Dame or a Principal Boy by being photographed with face beaming through a cut-out stylised figure . |
| 2 | A higher proportion of the CSW team 's notional ‘ elderly ’ time was devoted to work with people not yet clients , or ‘ not exactly ’ clients ( whether they were regarded as open cases or not seemed to be a matter of chance ) . |
| 3 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 4 | Now that we 're well into the New Year and little seems to be happening on the rock , I guess it 's time for the traditional retrospective . |
| 5 | Moreover some individuals-do n't actually contribute a lot to the groups and only seem to be working . |
| 6 | They are exponents of free love , and generally seem to be promiscuous and ready to make love with everyone , including mothers , fathers , aunts , uncles , and children . |
| 7 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 8 | He 'd read the script and already seemed to be familiar with Joyce 's published material . |
| 9 | The sorghum and millets correspond in size and structure to modern wild varieties of these plants and thus seem to be parts of an economy based on gathering wild plant foods . |
| 10 | Its grotesque outline keeps popping into view unexpectedly wherever one walks or drives around Lochinver , appearing as a giant thimble and always seeming to be peering inquisitively to see what is happening . |
| 11 | She gave him a little push and , in a daze , he followed Dorothy and one or two of the others up the stairs to the room that had been and still seemed to be Bunty 's . |
| 12 | This is an important difference as physical abuse and neglect do seem to be associated with social , material and environmental stress and hence seem to be related to social class . |
| 13 | He 'd taken her out to dinner that very night , and now seemed to be practically haunting the place , and obviously very much in love with her friend . |
| 14 | That has been re re reviewed through the year , and the process somewhat simplified , and now seems to be working well . |
| 15 | In this 1976 series he was still unsure of himself tactically , gave the impression that he had little plan of campaign thought out , and often seemed to be changing his bowling and field settings more on a whim than on a good tactical basis . |
| 16 | When we speak of ‘ the development of children ’ we are talking about a whole range of developments that sometimes take place together , sometimes have surges and periods of rest , and sometimes seem to be in competition for prominence . |
| 17 | But they seem happy to attribute orderliness and completeness to others , and indeed seem to be made happy by doing so . |
| 18 | All three suggestions follow directly from , and indeed seem to be required by , our current understanding of the mechanisms of associative learning . |
| 19 | If however we look more deeply into the play between the lines , we notice that the women are not totally fair , and just , and indeed seem to be both dishonest and immoral . |
| 20 | When light dawns as to what we are fighting for and why it is so difficult to achieve , sometimes we can break off and laugh with relief and take the steps to reconciliation that , again and again and again seem to be necessary . |
| 21 | The wind speeds did not change appreciably from Voyager 1 to Voyager 2 , and certainly seem to be more constant than the small features from which the speeds were obtained . |
| 22 | In syllable timing each syllable is given about the same amount of time and therefore seems to be more distinctly pronounced than in a stress timed language . |
| 23 | What is perhaps most curious about the characterization of Margery after the trick has been played is that she very soon drops all reference to — and therefore seems to be portrayed as forgetting — the threat she believes the clerk to pose . |
| 24 | Conversely , deletions affecting the DCC locus on chromosome 18q and deletions in the region of the p53 gene on 16p are found preferentially in carcinomas and therefore seem to be involved in the later stages of large bowel tumourigenesis. p53 gene mutation or deletion seems to be an important and common event not only in colorectal carcinogenesis but also in many other human tumours . |
| 25 | This is a very appealing theory but scarcely seems to be borne out by the facts ; after all , we dream about all sorts of things which in no way do we wish to experience in real life . |
| 26 | The former chairman of the Independent Appeals Tribunal said to me recently ‘ I wonder why it is that no benefit starts from the premises ‘ What can we do to help ? ’ but always seems to be ‘ How can we stop the bastards getting away with it ? ' ’ — coarse , but true ! |
| 27 | Hazel is one of those unfortunate patients who not only have food intolerance , but also seem to be sensitive to various everyday chemicals as well . |
| 28 | VBS used to give Output Manager away with their somewhat quirky VB No5 program but now seem to be spending more time developing the Output Manager rather than No5 ! |
| 29 | Neal , now assistant coach at Coventry , gained his first cap under Revie against Wales in 1976 but then seemed to be forgotten . |