Example sentences of "we seem to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right now , we seem to be ready to cripple lives and curb them — creating houses we shall regret and preferring town cramming to town planning . |
| 2 | ‘ We seem to be in the middle of something . |
| 3 | We seem to be able to communicate better with a horse if no one else is around . |
| 4 | Alter more than 10 years of ‘ debate ’ we seem to be little better off than before — indeed the lack of motivation is , if anything , more acute than ever . |
| 5 | ‘ We seem to be between Scylla and Charybdis , on this one . ’ |
| 6 | In general , we seem to be pleased with the way it goes about its work , and many like to feel that we can contribute ideas as well as money . |
| 7 | We seem to be unaware of our true essence , unable to express that essence authentically , and therefore unable to embody who we really are in the sight of others . |
| 8 | We seem to be failing in producing the kind of teacher who is committed to national service today . |
| 9 | However , since so few children attended some of these types of school , d is often calculated from proportions at the extremes of the scale ; if we rank the class exclusivity of schools on the basis of the magnitude of the d s , we seem to be told that the secondary moderns were the most selective , followed by the grammar schools . |
| 10 | In the UK we seem to be lagging well behind the USA in the construction of databases on hazardous sites and especially hazard events such as those involving toxic releases . |
| 11 | Often , we seem to be spoiled for choice and hampered , even paralysed , by our fear of the unknown . |
| 12 | The doctor 's trying some different medication , and we seem to be doing quite well with it at the moment . ’ |
| 13 | Where loving and intimate relationships are concerned , we seem to be more strongly influenced by familial blueprints and unconscious preoccupations than by other factors . |
| 14 | We seem to be forever ‘ fighting the flab ’ , going on crash diets , and trying to cut calories . |
| 15 | If the millions of pounds raised annually in this country for these people via television , telethon , etc. are spent in such a manner , this would surely see the start of a reversal of the present path on the dead-end road we seem to be following . |
| 16 | We seem to be working really well as a unit and things really gel when we write together . |
| 17 | ‘ We seem to be moving into a period of high pressure with clear but cold weather . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We seem to be automatically tagged a physical side . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | We seem to be back to the ‘ deprived ’ versus ‘ depraved ’ distinctions which the 1969 Act sought to end . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , if actors ' perceptions and values are caused , then we seem to be back with explanation again . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | " We seem to be drifting away from the point here . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |