Example sentences of "seem [prep] be [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a study of lexical semantics , there would seem to be two principal sources of primary data ; needless to say , the native language-user is central to both of them . |
| 2 | There would seem to be two main differences . |
| 3 | It would seem to be middle sized undertaking , since the very large business will employ personnel managers and legal experts who need no introduction to the subject , while the smaller operator ( the book quotes the average number of goods vehicles per operator 's licence as no more than three trucks ) is normally too concerned with driving by the seat of his pants while looking over his shoulder at legal requirements ( one may envisage ! ) to worry unduly about the skills of communication or the restrictions on picketing flowing from decisions of the courts as well as statute in the event of a major dispute . |
| 4 | THERE does not seem to be much good news about for any bulls in the advertising agency sector . |
| 5 | More broadly , there does not seem to be one simple hierarchy of types of job ( running from the most unskilled and casual up to the most responsible and secure ) , rather there are a number of different labour markets , partitioned from each other , and some operating on a sort of grapevine . |
| 6 | Finally , at least in the social sciences , there would seem to be strong social influences on which methods do get displayed and which are ignored . |
| 7 | In the King James version of John 's Gospel , there might at first seem to be some slight clarification . |
| 8 | No doubt chart-reading skills would also improve in an actual situation , but there do seem to be some serious difficulties in understanding how the numbers are related in the table . |
| 9 | But there does not seem to be any useful way of developing this idea by seeing people as containing equal quantities of any special substance , or equal degrees of any property . |
| 10 | Example 91 , from Britten 's War Requiem , has a tenor recitative over a sustained chord of G minor ( first inversion ) : The tenor part is frequently in strong , discordant opposition to the accompaniment , but there does not seem to be any planned tonal scheme . |
| 11 | In any case , with many associative adjectives there does not seem to be any lexical variation . |
| 12 | There does n't seem to be any great love lost between Reed and Harris , and even now Harris says , ‘ Oliver and I have never met but I 'm a great admirer of his . |
| 13 | There does not seem to be any close relationship between " modes of production " , " relations of ( economic ) production " , " relations of political domination " and " forms of the family " ( i.e. relations of human reproduction ) . |
| 14 | I think part of the problem with the station youth centre , surely is that , we do n't seem to know from one year to another , what the future 's gon na be , other , you know , there does n't seem to be any forward planning whatsoever . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was just as well that there did n't seem to be any extra business around tonight . |
| 16 | There does not seem to be any strong evidence for this . |
| 17 | ‘ But most often there does n't seem to be any good reason . |
| 18 | It do n't seem to be any good at all , whatsoever . |
| 19 | There does n't seem to be any equivalent insult for a boy . |
| 20 | It is necessary , therefore , to point out that there does not seem to be any decisive evidence in favour of the assertion . |
| 21 | There do n't even seem to be any local buses . |
| 22 | Now there does not seem to be any precise way of telling this in advance , so in the case of the carp angler , it is a matter of trial and error . |
| 23 | There did n't seem to be any good-time girls left except , maybe , Eleanor . |
| 24 | It was a question she had not thought to ask until now , but there certainly did n't seem to be any obvious Mrs Prescott hanging about in the background . |
| 25 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 26 | In this sense , while its practical effects would demand close supervision , and while the evidence for it is all late , there does not seem to be any particular reason why the classical jurists should not have admitted it . |
| 27 | In the case of buildings and equipment there do not seem to be any special problems other than space and cost . |
| 28 | The funny thing is there do n't seem to be any old folks . |