Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] seems to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's , the shirt just seems to be too fine for it . |
| 2 | Indeed , the name " pupa " derives from a Latin word meaning a doll , for at this stage the insect within seems to be wrapped in swaddling clothes . |
| 3 | The kitchen always seems to be the first room in which you run out of space . |
| 4 | The size of the mare too seems to be of little importance , and mules are much more alike than their parents might seem to suggest . |
| 5 | Lack of loadings have forced the two trips on July 15 and July 29 to go to the wall and FSS spokesman John Leech said : ‘ The recession still seems to be having an effect on the way people spend their money . ’ |
| 6 | The association therefore seems to be robust . |
| 7 | It is miffed that after struggling to get where it has , the industry suddenly seems to be rallying around an unproven — if conceptually similar — port by Apple rather than its own available technology . |
| 8 | The work now seems to be completed . |
| 9 | As this self is debated and discussed , the individualist sometimes seems to be demanding that a ceteris paribus clause should be included in all explanations of social phenomena — a murmured oath of loyalty to the freedom of the will along the lines of ‘ … and the individuals involved could have done otherwise ’ . |
| 10 | The Sun also seems to be preparing the ground for a late smear . |
| 11 | But the structure of the bonding also seems to be significant , with minerals having few silicon-oxygen bonds ( such as the neosilicates and inosilicates ) generally being less stable than those with more bonds ( such as the phyllosilicates and tectosilicates ) ( Fig. 6.3 ) . |
| 12 | The question now seems to be : will Government policy be changed or will implementation of the closure plan merely be delayed or modified ? |
| 13 | The director also seems to be trying to satirise the fashionable filmmaking of the day by having Cleavon Little play a French-speaking director with a hand-held camera . |
| 14 | In any case , the name of the game here seems to be performance-friendly and so you are immediately in at the sharp end with patch number 11 . |
| 15 | The predominant approach in the UK can be described as Manually Coded English ( MCE ) , i.e. the priority everywhere seems to be to support the learning of English through simultaneous use of signs and English . |
| 16 | FORECASTS from the Treasury have been proved to be hopelessly wrong which is one reason why the economy now seems to be in Freefall , leading to the closure of hundreds of Factories . |
| 17 | But clearly , what you have said in the past has led us to believe that you think self help does not solve all the problems , the government now seems to be telling us |
| 18 | the novel actually seems to be written at two different times . |
| 19 | The implication instead seems to be that Edward 's ‘ wise ordering ’ did not envisage a formal minority at all , but entailed the immediate accession of his heir — for which there was a precedent in 1377 , when the eleven-year-old Richard II had succeeded his grandfather . |
| 20 | The implication instead seems to be that Edward 's ‘ wise ordering ’ did not envisage a formal minority at all , but entailed the immediate accession of his heir — for which there was a precedent in 1377 , when the eleven-year-old Richard II had succeeded his grandfather . |
| 21 | I have cautioned a lot of people , and the caution always seems to be effective . |
| 22 | The reverse also seems to be true : the energy plasma appears to be sensitive to psychic and thought forms , so that it can actually move or change shape according to the mind of the observer . |
| 23 | The question in the DBQ refers specifically to multi-level car parks , the assumption here seems to be that such memory failures are particularly likely in this context because of the similarity in appearance of different floors in such a car park , however , there has been some work looking at memory for car parking in situations where more information is available . |
| 24 | In particular , the Treasury now seems to be more pessimistic than most City economists about inflation and the current-account deficit . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ Despite the national outcries that Cathy and other films engendered , the scale of the problem today seems to be greater than ever — if only by the sight of the homeless we see camped in the streets of our cities . ’ |
| 26 | The problem here seems to be this : am I saying that a child is responsible if and only if we declare her to be so , given that she knows what she is doing ? |
| 27 | Except on the odd occasion when the paper tray is empty , the problem only seems to be the inability of the printer to handle data as quickly as the PC can send it . |
| 28 | The position now seems to be that the two offences have the same legal definition , and that the prosecution should prefer the charge of manslaughter when the case is a bad one which might merit a sentence in excess of the five-year maximum for causing death by reckless driving . |
| 29 | Both slow movements are warmly and elegantly done , and if in the outer ones the soloist sometimes seems to be hell-bent on reaching the winning post first , the orchestra keeps up with ease . |
| 30 | The market now seems to be improving and we are anticipating a substantial increase in our volumes during 1993 . |