Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , generally , Ollie seemed to have been good for him and brought his character out a lot . |
| 2 | Which you secretary seemed to think was okay for that one . |
| 3 | The same tenure seems to have been usual for officials in most lawcourts — except for the judges — and in such administrative departments as the Signet Office and the Privy Seal Office . |
| 4 | From 1782 to 1786 the headmaster was William Taylor , who seems to have been responsible for directing Wordsworth 's attention to poetry . |
| 5 | He even seems to have been responsible for Sigismund 's most formal letters , those addressed to the eastern emperor . |
| 6 | It seems to have been unusual for any girl to go beyond straight typesetting to learn much about the other processes at this stage : a crucial point . |
| 7 | In terms of the ‘ demographic transition ’ it is a great puzzle to explain why the response to them was so late in a relatively literate , urbanized , and industrialized society where returns from children do not seem to have been plausible for a long time ( R. M. Smith 1981 ) . |