Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these vast spaces , concepts rather than characters seem to be doing battle , prominent among them a prince who appears to be acting the part of the roistering boy because he feels it is expected of him . |
| 2 | Values of much less than 30° seem to be inconsistent with an explanation of the Tunguska object as a stony asteroid . |
| 3 | Not because of some remarkable upturn in rural shoe-care standards , but because farmers seem to be going to agricultural shows less these days and doing less tyre-kicking when they get there . |
| 4 | Faith is better caught than taught and the example of a parent is a strong influence even while teenagers seem to be rejecting what you taught them . |
| 5 | Large dump trucks rumble past on the right bank as they extract gravel from the adjacent pits while airguns seem to be favourite canalside amusement . |
| 6 | Clearly , to be useful , these features must be common to all languages , since children seem to be able to learn any language with equal facility . |
| 7 | The picture becomes almost a real person to the boy , replacing his dead grandmother and helping him to carry on when circumstances seem to be against him . |
| 8 | When people seem to be falling down , I like to give them the opportunity to right themselves . |
| 9 | Im not quite as down on the performance as others seem to be . |