Example sentences of "we seem to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | We seem to be working really well as a unit and things really gel when we write together . |
| 32 | ‘ We seem to be moving into a period of high pressure with clear but cold weather . |
| 33 | ‘ We have to be a bit more incisive out wide but at least after our poor start to the League season we seem to be getting it together at last . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ We seem to be automatically tagged a physical side . |
| 35 | The best that we seem to be able to say is that biological and psychological categories have tended to contain only a very small minority of offenders ( as well as a significant proportion of non-offenders ) , while sociological categories have contained a large majority of non-offenders ( and by no means all offenders ) . |
| 36 | As Young ( 1986 ) has pointed out , we seem to be left only with the practical but extremely narrow focus of the new ‘ administrative ’ criminologists , or the unexamined , taken-for-granted ( and contradictory ) explanations of ‘ left idealism ’ . |
| 37 | We seem to be back to the ‘ deprived ’ versus ‘ depraved ’ distinctions which the 1969 Act sought to end . |
| 38 | Sometimes we seem to be in an almost oriental land of Byzantine decoration , sun and olives ; at other times sleighs and snowy mountains provide the backing for action . |
| 39 | Meanwhile , if actors ' perceptions and values are caused , then we seem to be back with explanation again . |
| 40 | ONCE UPON A TIME the Universities had representatives in parliament ; it is only now through the Conference of University Convocations and Graduate Associations ( CUCGA , a national body in which Salford has a high profile , that works to protect and enhance higher education ) that we seem to be getting some clout back . |
| 41 | In summing up on this ideas section , we seem to be moving towards advocating that you : ( i ) fix on some aims or targets or intentions ( ii ) decide how these might relate to the actions and behaviour of pupils and teachers ( iii ) try to produce a teaching unit that is illustrative of these intentions and that strives towards promoting some of the desired behaviour ( iv ) report back on the actual relationship between the intentions and the behaviour . |
| 42 | Sometimes we appear to ourselves to be making sense , sometimes we seem to be obviously deranged , and sometimes our thoughts are driven by the vivid imagery of dreams . |
| 43 | " We seem to be drifting away from the point here . |
| 44 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 45 | So I think we seem to be agreed that there , we 'll attempt to hold a seminar on Friday the ninth here in this Council chamber . |
| 46 | We 've also seen it happening , to an extent in properties in Bishopsfield as well erm I really think we need to get to grips with what we seem to be doing , which de-counting people prematurely early er , in response to , to housing developments which we are planning to undertake in in partnership with other people and leaving ourselves open to this and not |
| 47 | In the absence of such a link we seem to be committed to solipsism . |
| 48 | Increasingly , we seem to be talking about the unity and meaningfulness of discourse in terms of conformity : to another person 's view of the world , to shared stereotypes . |
| 49 | ‘ We seem to be left to our own devices , Mr. Preston . ’ |
| 50 | In both cases we seem to be dealing with a subordinated racism which becomes ‘ common sense ’ as a result of its articulation through a dominant but non-racist ideology of competitive individualism — a situation which is the exact opposite of what is normally argued ! |
| 51 | But in the following sentences — unfinished , fragmentary , as spontaneous as speech — we seem to be placed right inside Emma 's head . |
| 52 | You may well ask why we seem to be becoming a sick and overweight society . |
| 53 | We seem to be the only syndicate that 's involved in all three natural disasters . |
| 54 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 55 | Places are determined in relation to entities , which means that if places are to perform their individuative function , it is necessary to assume the numerical uniqueness of the entities that act as our frame of reference , and so once again we seem to be caught in a circular argument . |
| 56 | We seem to be able to handle it . |
| 57 | Couple it , too , with the reflections about the abortive and incoherent nature of the counter-culture and counter-course movement in higher education , and we seem to be emerging with a depressing set of conclusions about the wider cultural function of higher education . |
| 58 | ‘ It 's the only way we seem to be like mother . ’ |
| 59 | We seem to be gathering all sorts of things we do n't need . |
| 60 | Also we seem to be awfully short of knives . |