Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] seem to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's , the shirt just seems to be too fine for it . |
| 2 | Indeed , the name " pupa " derives from a Latin word meaning a doll , for at this stage the insect within seems to be wrapped in swaddling clothes . |
| 3 | The favourite still seemed to be going well enough , however , and the adoring masses were not particularly worried as the leading group — Ten of Spades and Desert Orchid , with Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin close behind — thundered down towards the third last fence . |
| 4 | The Russians always seem to be with us . |
| 5 | The kitchen always seems to be the first room in which you run out of space . |
| 6 | The size of the mare too seems to be of little importance , and mules are much more alike than their parents might seem to suggest . |
| 7 | Lack of loadings have forced the two trips on July 15 and July 29 to go to the wall and FSS spokesman John Leech said : ‘ The recession still seems to be having an effect on the way people spend their money . ’ |
| 8 | The association therefore seems to be robust . |
| 9 | It is miffed that after struggling to get where it has , the industry suddenly seems to be rallying around an unproven — if conceptually similar — port by Apple rather than its own available technology . |
| 10 | Most of the enemy still seemed to be asleep as the avalanche of horses and riders bore down upon them in pounding fury . |
| 11 | Suddenly running the club successfully seemed to be the most important thing in her life . |
| 12 | The work now seems to be completed . |
| 13 | As this self is debated and discussed , the individualist sometimes seems to be demanding that a ceteris paribus clause should be included in all explanations of social phenomena — a murmured oath of loyalty to the freedom of the will along the lines of ‘ … and the individuals involved could have done otherwise ’ . |
| 14 | The last of the winter snow was melting off the steep slopes , but the flatter areas and the passes still seemed to be well covered . |
| 15 | There is constant companionship and eventually , when the program is finally debugged , the machine really seems to ‘ understand ’ . |
| 16 | After the ornateness of The Towers , the simple lines of the Hall always seemed to her a little ordinary , but nice . |
| 17 | The Sun also seems to be preparing the ground for a late smear . |
| 18 | But the structure of the bonding also seems to be significant , with minerals having few silicon-oxygen bonds ( such as the neosilicates and inosilicates ) generally being less stable than those with more bonds ( such as the phyllosilicates and tectosilicates ) ( Fig. 6.3 ) . |
| 19 | The quinolones now seem to be the antimicrobial agents of choice for acute bacterial prostatitis . |
| 20 | The parents invariably seemed to be laden with shopping , children , pushchairs , and all the other paraphernalia of parenthood . |
| 21 | The question now seems to be : will Government policy be changed or will implementation of the closure plan merely be delayed or modified ? |
| 22 | The director also seems to be trying to satirise the fashionable filmmaking of the day by having Cleavon Little play a French-speaking director with a hand-held camera . |
| 23 | The room suddenly seemed to him both overcrowded and empty . |
| 24 | ‘ The guitars always seem to be drowning him out , ’ she complained , with some justification . |
| 25 | The amplitude of the vibration even seemed to be reducing slightly , although the movement was still sickeningly massive . |
| 26 | The crisis only seems to eased because of ruthless conference management and because Tories have looked over the precipice and seen the disastrous consequences of disunity . |
| 27 | It was true that the members of the court sometimes seemed to be in competition in their attempts to gratify Artai 's vanity . |
| 28 | If the Vietminh still seemed to be the only movement capable of achieving the fulfilment of the people 's aspiration to national independence and to social justice , it nevertheless ruled with the aid of physical terror and moral constraint . |
| 29 | Politicians in all countries would accept the proposition that the system should be designed to serve the people but whatever the political philosophy behind the system , the people always seem to be more its servants than its masters . |
| 30 | In any case , the name of the game here seems to be performance-friendly and so you are immediately in at the sharp end with patch number 11 . |