Example sentences of "[verb] seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , most people 's attitudes towards this appear quite accepting ; often , the anticipation of dying seems to be less traumatic than dealing with the problems associated with ageing itself . |
| 2 | For a while now the man they call the greatest living actor has seemed to be coasting . |
| 3 | Forgetting where your car is parked seems to be an example of impaired memory for a relatively complex event at the tactical level . |
| 4 | The fumes from the amount of wine she had consumed seemed to be clouding her brain . |
| 5 | For a long time the only way in which a truly selfless behaviour could arise seemed to be through a differential advantage accruing to groups of individuals that showed sacrifice in relation to their companions to a degree greater than in other groups . |
| 6 | However , the crops that failed seemed to be the ones that were cheapest to buy ; French beans , mange-tout peas and Swiss chard would proliferate way beyond predictions on the packet . |
| 7 | Everyone we passed seemed to be staring at me . |
| 8 | Whatever position I adopted seemed to be the wrong one , and it was possible for certain parts of my body to be relaxed and at rest only at the expense of certain other parts . |
| 9 | I 'm a non-smoker but er colleagues who do smoke seem to be smoking more than they did before . |
| 10 | I in particular , bearing in mind the point that er Mr i is making , that er newts seem to be as it were very choosy in where they er go , bearing in mind the existence of at least three other ponds in Skelton , I would like to know whe how er why it is or whether it is that newts are only found in this pond , and whether or not er the the survey has shown anything in either of er in any of the other ponds . |
| 11 | His desire to be gone had been so strong — the desire for movement — that he 'd seemed to be leaning into the wind . |
| 12 | Howard is relieved and pleased that his younger self could pass such a test ; to have been in his own company for fifteen minutes or more , and to have been so opaque and convincing that he 'd seemed to be like anyone else . |
| 13 | The problem arises particularly when the data collected seems to be a product of the research method used rather than of what is being studied . |
| 14 | As such , overlapping seems to be particularly effective at the engineering stages where companies want to avoid the technical problems associated with sharp reductions in individual stage length . |
| 15 | Finding someone willing to give up time just to listen seems to be a problem for many people . |
| 16 | In conclusion , I am sorry if what I have said seems to be one more version of ‘ on the one hand ’ and on the other' . |
| 17 | First , that there are cases in which for no apparent reason legacy and trust seem to be used imprecisely . |
| 18 | But , even if she did find their name and address , since the alternator needed seemed to be going to take some time to track down , there seemed little point in trying to contact them that day . |
| 19 | The implication drawn seemed to be that these two groups were irrevocably separated the practical men being for ever excluded from the highest mystical experiences . |
| 20 | As such , The Painted Nude is , indeed , a suggestive display , even if the debate which it stimulates seem to be more a result of accident than intention . |
| 21 | And the price you paid seems to be fair enough — even taking the bad news into account . |
| 22 | Hard-line street life does n't sit easily with the girls ' culture , and for all their stylish revolt , in the end the only way to belong seems to be to be part of the community of women . |
| 23 | Nearly everyone I meet seems to be doing something these days . |
| 24 | I 'm sure he would n't want to seem to be walking out on his friends in a nasty situation . ’ |
| 25 | When AIDS was first identified in the USA , all those affected seemed to be gay or bisexual men . |
| 26 | Only a short time after Joe left , the ‘ phoney war ’ as it was called seemed to be over when Hitler invaded Norway and Denmark . |
| 27 | All those nights when she had n't been able to sleep seemed to be catching up with her . |
| 28 | Although these technical advances will not significantly alter the dominant influence of climate on the length of the growing season or on the difficulty of harvesting crops in the hills , the ideas on which they are based seem to be relevant and applicable to a wide range of hill environments and can accommodate many of the regional variations in farming practice . |
| 29 | In the 1980s attention was drawn to the small bowel , where the secretory and motor responses to stress seem to be different in IBS patients . |
| 30 | Everybody I know seems to be down there . " |