Example sentences of "[adv] seems [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it is understood that the symptoms of disease are actually a good thing in that they are the highly characteristic outward indication of the healing and balancing process that is going on inside each individual person , then to give a medicine that is capable of mimicking and bringing about that same process suddenly seems to be a good idea ; both totally reasonable and logical . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | six o'clock seems to be a nice time , Scottish Homes said they would lay on coffee and |
| 4 | Similarly , there is nothing intrinsically right about Farmer and Parker 's typology of children affected ; it merely seems to be a revealing distinction . |
| 5 | In the visual arts even less seems to be understood about the viewer-in-the-picture , especially about the nature of the ‘ illuminating experience ’ ( Taylor , 1986 , p. 160 ) , that may accompany the aesthetic response . |
| 6 | The overall flexibility which is clear when we take the three works together seems to be much less evident when we look at The Origin by itself . |
| 7 | Reading the bar codes is more difficult , since this type of software only seems to be sold as part of a complete bar code reader and software package . |
| 8 | It only seems to be things I know already … . |
| 9 | There only seems to be one escape route from this cycle — inclusion in the Olympics . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We used to sell it but now it only seems to be Boots — I know it is still popular . ’ |
| 12 | Do n't know whether the others have died , but they a there only seems to be one . |
| 13 | Possibly because BIS confines itself to activity in the academic , college and research libraries ( where most library instruction takes place ) , and the various committees have set themselves more specific tasks , BIS seems to be a more successful co-operative and co-ordinating agency than LIRT . |
| 14 | I do n't think the English need to nurture their sense of isolation ; that already seems to be quite mature . |
| 15 | Ironically , one casualty of failure to bring it into force would be the express attempt to limit action on the part of the Community through the concept of subsidiarity , even if in practical terms account already seems to be being taken of this concept . |
| 16 | The newsletter commented : ‘ Clearly , a pretty strict observance of the new March production limits will be required to dissipate the impact of the February overhang and make any kind of a positive impression on a market which already seems to be losing the bullish tone which was in evidence after the mid-February OPEC accord . ’ |
| 17 | If , as generally seems to be accepted , the supply of labour ( especially for male heads of households ) is overall fairly inelastic , it is safe to assume in redistributive studies that personal income taxes stay where they are put and that forward shifting is fairly insignificant . |
| 18 | Kinnock had all the best jokes : sad fact that this no longer seems to be considered important . |
| 19 | Once the link between property ownership and control is severed there no longer seems to be any compelling reason why the shareholders should receive all the profits of the company or why corporate managers should run the company in their interest alone . |
| 20 | In The Act of Reading , Wolfgang Iser argues that the literary work should be understood as a means of communication rather than as a representation of the world : ‘ It is a vital feature of literary texts that they do not lose their ability to communicate ; indeed , many of them can still speak even when their message has long since passed into history and their meaning no longer seems to be of importance ’ ( 1978:13 ) . |
| 21 | Barclays Bank plc took the step in March 1984 of announcing that it would aim to keep its base rate within ¼ — ⅜%; of the prevailing three month interbank rate , but there no longer seems to be a very precise linkage between the two rates . |
| 22 | The level of suspicion thus seems to be no less than that required to effect an arrest . |
| 23 | The clinical usefulness of the polymerase chain reaction thus seems to be limited only by the power of our imagination in identifying specific targets . |
| 24 | There thus seems to be quantitative differences in the metabolic processes concerned . |
| 25 | There thus seems to be a need for those planning services to have a clear idea as to the role of any planned day care . |
| 26 | Pausing thus seems to be an integral part of spontaneous speech . |
| 27 | " Quotation " thus seems to be a code-switching phenomenon which can work at several levels . |
| 28 | This is a very appealing theory but scarcely seems to be borne out by the facts ; after all , we dream about all sorts of things which in no way do we wish to experience in real life . |
| 29 | At this point , he finally seems to be content . |
| 30 | Bearing all that in mind , it is not difficult to see how the person who starts with a lack of confidence in one specific area of life soon seems to be taken over by that lack of confidence , which spreads to many spheres of activity . |