Example sentences of "be [conj] it 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 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | One of the attractions of swearing for a child is that it seems a grown-up thing to do . |
| 7 | What makes it attractive to him is that it seems to fascinate his parents . |
| 8 | Another of the ironies of penal reform is that it seems not to apply in Texas , one of the spiritual centres of capitalism . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One problem with the Royal College of General Practitioners is that it seems to equate general practice exclusively with being an NHS general practitioner . |
| 11 | The first is that he has got her into bed so easily and the second is that it seems to mean nothing to her . |
| 12 | All I do know is that it seems someone here does believe that they still have an influence . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the thing is that it seems that we 're a cultural the way the system is set up |
| 16 | A second problem is that it seems somehow contradictory that to should have meaning in some of its uses but not in others . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The point about [ 20 ] is that it seems to achieve most of its relevance through this range of weak implicatures . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The thing to remember is your last little note is that it seems to be that they 're accusing him of blasphemy as it was said . |
| 21 | Seamans said it was very rare that violence broke out at American football , baseball or basketball games , ‘ and what is the biggest concern is that it seems to be organised violence at European soccer games which is something we have never experienced , ’ he added . |
| 22 | One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords |
| 23 | Harriet 's sobbing and she herself is st ill cursing and her head 's spinning and spinning and they lurch into each other , and Harriet is n't Princess H any more , cool and cocky , she 's sad too , mysteriously , unglamorously , and she hugs her and feels how slight she is and it seems she 's luckier than Harriet , well , just now . |
| 24 | If it 's if it seems solid |
| 25 | If the hour and 25 minutes sometimes drags through moments that are spun out for too long , and through some unnecessary tricksiness with the screens , that 's because it seems Lepage has n't yet quite found what he wants Miles Davis and Jean Cocteau to reveal to him . |
| 26 | All is as it seems , and as it should be . |
| 27 | Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 28 | The image of royalty gives us an idea just how powerful and proud the train is as it seems to influence and belittle all the things around it . |