Example sentences of "[conj] seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Lisa Jardine has recently reminded us , in the obsession with dress and what it signified socially , we witness contemporary tensions and struggles between classes , between residual and emergent cultures , between the mercantile order and what it was actually ( or seemed to be ) replacing , between rank and wealth , between innate and fiscal value ( Still Harping , 141 — 2 , 1 50 ) . |
| 2 | She was wearing a bandage , or seemed to be , but it was on her arm , not her leg . |
| 3 | Helping the young Spanish Republic in its struggle for survival against these powerful enemies was , or seemed to be , a way of resisting the advance of a sinister creed and political system which threatened to engulf the whole of Europe . |
| 4 | But there were no mirrors , just almost-invisible pockets of shining darkness where some still-standing stairs and statues disappeared , as if cut with shears , or seemed to be folded at impossible angles . |
| 5 | He considered this , or seemed to be considering this . |
| 6 | Cathy was almost opposite Alan Tate and he was , watching her , or seemed to be . |
| 7 | The recession — it looks as though there is a glimmer of light , but I was on the continent a couple of three weeks ago when the mortar attack took place at Number Ten and the reaction of people I met I mean it was much more marked there than it was here , or seemed to be . |
| 8 | Although these feelings may originally be focused , whether appropriately or not , on colleagues or superiors within education , the targets may be inaccessible or it may be , or seem to be , too dangerous to tackle them directly . |
| 9 | They 're checking places that are empty , or seem to be empty . |
| 10 | ‘ Or seem to be . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm the sort of person who wants to do everything for the people I love and he is the sort of person who 's self-sufficient , or seems to be … = ’ she paused . |
| 12 | In this case , as in the poems discussed by Green , no addressee is mentioned or seems to be present within the evoked setting , so that the poetic persona can be imagined either as a thinking mind or as a speaker talking to himself in a solitary environment . |
| 13 | That afternoon there was a voice among us that seemed to be leading the whole thing — anything he say is what we thinking , but before . |
| 14 | Yet many people in Victorian Britain were not indifferent to the widening divisions between rich and poor that seemed to be a consequence of this ideology . |
| 15 | Finding it impossible to break into movies after the production slump of the 1940s , before television offered an alternative route to aspiring filmmakers , people like Anderson , Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz worked instead within sponsored documentaries , while writing about the sort of passionate , personal filmmaking that seemed to be possible in France , Italy , even India , but not in Britain . |
| 16 | During the 1960s , he demonstrated that dolphins could produce sounds in air that seemed to be direct and relevant imitations of human speech patterns . |
| 17 | The important thing , though , was that they paid their admission fee before they became totally paralytic and abusive ; that seemed to be all that really mattered . |
| 18 | Because of his death , aged just forty-two , he is also thought of as a tragic figure , a man who was unable to fulfil the important public service to his people that seemed to be his destiny . |
| 19 | When Palmer made a hash of a perfectly weighted through pass from Dozzell two minutes from the end , that seemed to be that . |
| 20 | What made things more disconcerting was a strange banging noise that seemed to be coming from the ceiling . |
| 21 | While Robyn was hesitating , the office began to fill up with men wearing drab suits and dull ties and with the pasty complexions that seemed to be common to everybody who worked in the factory . |
| 22 | Bernard was on a round the world trip and he had a system worked out for the South American leg that seemed to be based on the storming of Himalayan peaks . |
| 23 | Someone , smiling , said ‘ Poor wee bastard , ’ and that seemed to be the extent of feeling for Alec . |
| 24 | No ; it was a particular feeling that seemed to be lacking in the three of them . |
| 25 | Let's face it , Rangers are the biggest club in Scotland , but they had an attitude that seemed to be against change and against progress . |
| 26 | He frowned as he strode along , thudding his staff on the ground at every stride , but still it was the loss of the sack rather than of the children that seemed to be the cause of his anger . |
| 27 | John Ostrom once pointed to the teeth of duckbills that seemed to be specialized for the grinding of coarse plant foods . |
| 28 | The Maggot whooped , dragged the stick back and our earthwards wing lifted and suddenly we were screaming just above the palm trees , close to the tiled roofs and at a speed that seemed to be doubled because of our proximity to the ground . |
| 29 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had produced fusion in their test-tube because when they passed electrical current through it , more heat was produced than they could account for , and in amounts extending over hundreds of hours that seemed to be far in excess of what is possible in a normal chemical reaction . |
| 30 | The only thing that seemed to be stirring most people was their scorn of Chamberlain . |