Example sentences of "the [noun sg] seems [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both linguistic and legal grounds make the second of these hypotheses the more plausible : the response seems to be tailored ( drastically ) to fit the preceding enquiry , in which only subsequent debts are considered ; there is no reason why this trust clause should be thought invalid , as other texts confirm . |
| 2 | The flicker seems to be dormant , at least for the moment . ’ |
| 3 | Very little additional colour can have a dramatically brightening effect : the trick seems to be to reduce the black element to a design of sufficient simplicity to integrate small dabs of colour . |
| 4 | The trick seems to be their enthusiasm . |
| 5 | The winner seems to be determined by how strongly the extension adheres to the wall , and the cell eventually moves to the site where the attachments are strongest . |
| 6 | The technique seems to be refutation by denigration : If you can attach a label to my approach , you do n't have to say what is wrong with it . |
| 7 | ( The fact that this might have been the case seems to be beyond the imagination of many even of liberal disposition in the church . ) |
| 8 | In some sense , then , the function of the Creole seems to be to emphasise the content of that particular piece of talk , for it is that content which is reacted to by other speakers . |
| 9 | ‘ The Archbishop seems to be harking back to the politics of guilt and the socialist faddism of yesteryear . ’ |
| 10 | Well that 's er that 's another thing that 's happened within the British Steel 's er scheme , the Chairman seems to be elected in himself or by the company , it 's certainly not e elected by the Trustee Board and er a and we would like to see |
| 11 | But the decision seems to be a hit with the scouts . |
| 12 | The cushion seems to be cut from the fragment of a statue . |
| 13 | While clients therefore would like to see their lawyers being more proactive , helping them to foresee ways round particular hazards before they arise , the difficulty seems to be in how to do it . |
| 14 | The index seems to be comprehensive . |
| 15 | It does not show that it always favours one interest — in fact the contrary seems to be true . |
| 16 | And she reports that the recession seems to be easing in the area , with companies expressing renewed interest in investment and acquisitions . |
| 17 | The hope seems to be that nurses will be better prepared and better enthused to address the nursing needs of society without the shackles placed on them by an outmoded system of training . |
| 18 | The underlying moral of this part of the story seems to be that the Church should welcome all who are sound in doctrine without troubling about differences and minor scruples . |
| 19 | Perhaps because Henry VIII , founder of Trinity College , was a larger-than-life character everything about the college seems to be on a grand scale . |
| 20 | And the N R A have come out with the reason now , saying that the river is cooler in the winter periods , when the fishing seems to be off , and the fish are n't biting . |
| 21 | Isolated primary non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma of the oesophagus seems to be exceptionally rare ; in both reported cases , oesophageal lesions were the first manifestation of the disease . |
| 22 | Under the threat of NT the current mood of the industry seems to be for one requirements body , a consistent set of requirements and one open system . |
| 23 | Although the industry seems to be rallying to DCE , which is being touted as the future de facto , if not de jure , standard for creating and implementing distributed client/server applications , as Sun points out , no-one is using DCE — except a few early developers — whilst it already has some three million odd ONC licencees . |
| 24 | That 's where most of the action seems to be at present . |
| 25 | The society has 400 members from all over Britain and some from Europe — though the concensus seems to be that follies are an English speciality . |
| 26 | The main obstacle in the way of the auction seems to be the difficulty of obtaining export licences . |
| 27 | When the future seems to be filled with storm clouds , it may appear that the Church has no other recourse but to batten down the hatches and attempt to ride the storm . |
| 28 | ‘ Making information work ’ on page 10 tells of a success story in disease surveillance in two districts in India : the key seems to be the feedback of collected information to workers . |
| 29 | The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client . |
| 30 | On conversions that I have seen the fan seems to be too close to the radiator . |