Example sentences of "[adv] seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words jarred Harriet and she swallowed at the ball of nerves that suddenly seemed to be constricting her throat . |
| 2 | There suddenly seemed to be nothing between them except the hatred flaring in Ursula 's eyes . |
| 3 | Rincewind turned to run , but the air suddenly seemed to be thicker than treacle . |
| 4 | It was as big as the island itself , if not bigger , and the rocks below seemed to be wobbling under the strain of holding it up . |
| 5 | He looked around briefly at the women with the scraggy necks in the Laura Ashley dresses , and the men who all seemed to be wearing red ties , and probably Seiko watches — but for a different reason from Bob . |
| 6 | Despite this chilly inconvenience , however , the place was crowded with people who all seemed to be talking at once . |
| 7 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 8 | The Divisional Court upheld the scheme adopted by the GLC but the ground on which they did so seemed to be no more than that ‘ since the LTE could exercise its function to balance its revenue account by a grant from the GLC , a policy that reduced fares by means of such a grant was not unlawful ’ . |
| 9 | Moreover some individuals-do n't actually contribute a lot to the groups and only seem to be working . |
| 10 | London 's Theatre Museum could rout its critics by putting on its very first , entitled Cinderella And Her Very Ugly Sisters , as well as a Panto Fun Week of workshops where families can find out how Daisy the Cow negotiates the stage or how a handsome actor is turned into an Ugly Sister , or personally seem to be a Dame or a Principal Boy by being photographed with face beaming through a cut-out stylised figure . |
| 11 | It is unavoidable to begin by referring to Young and Willmott 's ( 1957 ) study of Bethnal Green , and to the much quoted chapter in which they itemize how mothers and daughters and sisters constantly seem to be doing each other 's shopping , drying each other 's washing and looking after each other 's children for the afternoon . |
| 12 | In free fighting so many aspects come into play at the same time that newer students suddenly seem to be out of their depth . |
| 13 | One very lively looking book provides typical examples of the features I would criticize : a focus on the history of the science dealing with the main discoverers who all seem to be men ; a use of the pseudo-generic ‘ man ’ and ‘ he ’ when the reference is to men and women ; more pictures of men than women ; a series of cartoons in the margins which portray boys more frequently than girls to illustrate some concept or show active participation in scientific experiment . |
| 14 | But , in those early days of her marriage , her father had merely seemed to be a deeply unhappy if somewhat eccentric man , whose small losses of memory were hardly noticeable . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | six o'clock seems to be a nice time , Scottish Homes said they would lay on coffee and |
| 18 | Similarly , there is nothing intrinsically right about Farmer and Parker 's typology of children affected ; it merely seems to be a revealing distinction . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His smiles , his glances , his gentle intimacies … somehow they had all seemed to be pointing in that direction . |
| 22 | However , it had all seemed to be so very easy at first . |
| 23 | I have no interest in Carmichael 's enterprises , but keeping in seems to be the only way to find what happened . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It only seems to be things I know already … . |
| 26 | There only seems to be one escape route from this cycle — inclusion in the Olympics . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We used to sell it but now it only seems to be Boots — I know it is still popular . ’ |
| 29 | Do n't know whether the others have died , but they a there only seems to be one . |
| 30 | The front runner has long seemed to be head injury , in which a microdialysis probe might readily accompany a pressure monitor and provide a guide to metabolic state . |