Example sentences of "[noun] often seem to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , of course , not easy to interpret the columns of figures which appear in the school brochure — and headteachers often seem to be adept at presenting their results in positive terms . |
| 2 | What is extraordinary is that it is taking off in England — the land of the Stiff Upper Lip , where the primary emotion often seems to be fear of embarrassment . |
| 3 | Staff relationships often seem to be most successful when the unit or resource teacher takes a full part as a member of the school staff and is involved in general activities in the school . |
| 4 | These covers often seem to be added for effect rather than functionality . |
| 5 | Ruckelshaus is a marked contrast to Burford and her political mentor , the Interior Secretary James Watt , whose attitude often seemed to be that the environment was over-protected . |
| 6 | Certainly a picture often seems to be ‘ framed ’ perfectly in such cases . |
| 7 | Indeed , adaptation often seems to be compared with some assumed saintly lifestyle and , as social services clients are often closely scrutinized , their short-comings are manifest . |
| 8 | Lying upon the sand at a distance of 200 yards [ 180 m ] , their bodies often seem to be a uniform dull chrome yellow , but in reality the entire upper surface of the animal from snout to tail is of a uniform olive green , mottled with the former colour . |
| 9 | Mainstream teachers and heads of language departments often seem to be lacking in knowledge of their pupils ' languages . |
| 10 | Again , such subjects typically have to develop a more ‘ scholarly ’ , conceptual or abstract side in order to gain admittance to and status within the academic fold , although to some extent they can isolate themselves from other faculties and departments — art and design in the polytechnics and colleges often seem to be states within a state , enjoying an autonomy underpinned by their separate location on inherited art college sites . |
| 11 | The situation for people disabled from childhood or from birth appears to be slightly different ; there is the same pattern of increasing satisfaction preceding a downturn in later years , but the start of this upward trend often seems to be delayed until early adulthood . |
| 12 | Normally developing children often seem to be inexhaustible sources of spoken language ; they seem to relish their developing abilities and to use them on every possible occasion . |
| 13 | Commercial confidentiality is understandable , but resistance to giving information often seems to be endemic among producers . |
| 14 | But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring . |
| 15 | In retrospect the debates on the Bill had a curious air of unreality … government spokesmen often seemed to be stating simple lessons in economic theory … |