Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] seems " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Regatta chairman talks about the way hospitality had taken over the regatta course and howm glad they are that it seems to be declining . |
| 2 | Absolutely no interest in politics whatsoever you know all they 'd done it 's you know it 's sad to see things the way they are but it seems to be that with the world over at the moment so . |
| 3 | The text needs to be watched closely for all may not be as it seems at first . |
| 4 | ‘ The only indication we have is that somebody seems to have drawn the bolt on the yard door between Gerald failing to get in at 11.15 , and the mystery woman succeeding at 11.30 . |
| 5 | A R. What you are saying is that everyone seems to miss the work of Litz Pisk [ a legendary movement teacher at Central School ] who had such movement sense . |
| 6 | What makes it worse is that nobody seems to know what happened . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The trouble is that nobody seems able to tell me when I 'm likely to get any money ! |
| 8 | What does matter is that something seems seriously wrong with Gaia . |
| 9 | All I can tell you is that someone seems to want to harm you . |
| 10 | What most strikes you about this elegantly swaddled creature is that she seems encumbered by the costume of her role . |
| 11 | The most important of these is that there seems to be no evidence that people assumed automatic responsibility for their relatives — including parents — who were old , sick , or in some other circumstance where they were unable to work to maintain themselves . |
| 12 | My one , half-hearted reservation is that there seems just a hint that the ‘ rural ’ artist with his scenes of idyllic country peace has an easier task . |
| 13 | Perhaps the vessels ' only common denominator , other than their work , is that there seems to be no common denominator ! |
| 14 | My only complaint is that there seems to be no way of selecting a between a horizontal or vertical tiling split . |
| 15 | The reason the coding metaphor has such currency in contemporary talk about perception is that it seems to suggest a way in which very simple and apparently homogenous elements such as nerve impulses can generate the richness and variety of consciousness . |
| 16 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |
| 17 | One of the attractions of swearing for a child is that it seems a grown-up thing to do . |
| 18 | What makes it attractive to him is that it seems to fascinate his parents . |
| 19 | Another of the ironies of penal reform is that it seems not to apply in Texas , one of the spiritual centres of capitalism . |
| 20 | One of the oddities of Foucault 's work is that it seems riven by an internal tension — for example , as peter Dews notes , while on the one hand Foucault lays claims to a form of objectivity in his archaeology , and eschews interpretation in favour of ‘ intelligibility ’ , on the other hand throughout his life he was also prone to endorse a Nietzschean insistence on the interminability of interpretation . |
| 21 | One problem with the Royal College of General Practitioners is that it seems to equate general practice exclusively with being an NHS general practitioner . |
| 22 | The first is that he has got her into bed so easily and the second is that it seems to mean nothing to her . |
| 23 | All I do know is that it seems someone here does believe that they still have an influence . ’ |
| 24 | Our reason for stressing the concept of representative volume element is that it seems to provide a valuable dividing boundary between continuum theories and molecular or microscopic theories . |
| 25 | Now , when you read Totem and Taboo , one of the things you may notice , particularly if you 've read more recent anthropological social science literature , is that it seems very old fashioned . |
| 26 | But the thing is that it seems that we 're a cultural the way the system is set up |
| 27 | A second problem is that it seems somehow contradictory that to should have meaning in some of its uses but not in others . |
| 28 | The problem with the word involvement is that it seems to imply a single-mindedness , a deep identification with character which is not only unnecessary , but often counter-productive . |
| 29 | The point about [ 20 ] is that it seems to achieve most of its relevance through this range of weak implicatures . |
| 30 | Yeah but but the point I 'm trying to make is that it seems to me that if we 're continually spending money on advertising , we 're creating another problem elsewhere . |