Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] seems " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing that seems of much interest . " |
| 2 | To me that seems intolerable . |
| 3 | But that six Rose , I 'm not criticising , well I am criticising , to me that seems an awful lot of money . |
| 4 | It is not the decision itself that seems to shock the most — after almost 50 years , proving a crime is an uncertain business — but the apparent will to vindicate the Vichy régime . |
| 5 | And everything that seems to happen to me |
| 6 | If there is to be objectivity here , we can not have it that ‘ everything that seems right is right ’ . |
| 7 | She knows that even something that seems so simple as giving a wash has to be thought about and done in a sensitive way . |
| 8 | Here is something that seems very like intelligence , and we must ask whether it is really that , or merely another clever but mechanical programming finesse that we do not yet see . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , that 's something that seems fresh to me . |
| 10 | You know , you 're sitting there with these guys , you 're looking for something to do , there 's a pile of instruments and you grab something that seems to fit . |
| 11 | But we are often faced with the experienced need to make ‘ sense ’ of our lives and our feelings and goals , to relate confused fragments of ourselves into something that seems more coherent and of which we feel more in control . |
| 12 | " The imagination " , wrote Beveridge , " merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where , by the dim light of the knowledge that we carry , we may glimpse something that seems of interest . |
| 13 | All too easily , if you pin the whole plot on something that seems to you a tremendous novelty , you can find that some writer you have n't happened to read has had much the same idea before you . |
| 14 | Here we have something that seems a little paradoxical , until we think about it further . |
| 15 | The acceptance of a bottom line , something that seems to have been singularly missing in the British negotiating stance , will provide its own discipline . |
| 16 | Where , then , did and do the remainder , the ‘ others ’ fit : — ‘ on the edge ’ ; in some buffer zone between categories ; or in a hybrid form , grappling both to make a space and to find a name : Fibre Art — Who Are you ? ’ talks of this hybrid form as an ‘ undecidable ’ ( Derrida ) , ‘ something that seems to belong to one genre , but overshoots its borders and seems no less at home in another … |
| 17 | Something that seems to be sadly lacking in this house . |
| 18 | Given the most cynical interpretation , although one that seems to be surprisingly widely held in New York , ‘ those four beautiful books have become the most glamorous mail order catalogue in history . ’ |
| 19 | Against such a background a child may well develop a troubled reaction , and one that seems to lack sympathy with adult bereavement . |
| 20 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 21 | The only one that seems to have used his sense in this situation was the dog . ’ |
| 22 | Whole tribes of proud and even magnificent people have at times sat down and died for no other reason than that their ancient culture has been exposed , even briefly , to one that seems to belong to a superior order . |
| 23 | It 's a simple formula , but one that seems to be quite successful , judging from the number of copies sold already . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , the flow-chart-cum-module model is much more open to interpretation in terms of localization ( if only because both are normally explained and displayed spatially ) , and therefore any explication of consciousness in their terms will tend to be a localized model , or what I referred to as a pinball-machine view of consciousness , one that seems to me a priori implausible . |
| 25 | Of the suggestions that we have canvassed the one that seems to be the most promising is that which points to the emergence of classical measuring instruments from a quantum mechanical substrate , even if the mode and consistency of this happening is harder to comprehend than Copenhagen orthodoxy is willing to recognise . |
| 26 | The worst target of all is the one that seems to be near but is forever receding as one gets closer to it . |
| 27 | A shallow opportunity is one that seems attractive at first sight . |
| 28 | ‘ Presumably they 're attracted to you , one way or another , so any warnings should come from you , and there 's only one that seems relevant in the circumstances . |
| 29 | The system is a well thought-out one and seems to work well . |
| 30 | The destruction of the oaks has a poignancy for her that seems to go beyond the aesthetic . |