Example sentences of "seems [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answering the question as to the state in which this love can best be practised , Rolle points to an inner quietness which seems for him to be achievable only in literal solitude and constrained stability : " er Goddes trone , dwelles still in a stede , and er noght abowte rennand " [ trone : throne ; a stede : one place ] ( 10.116.258 – 9 ) . |
| 2 | The mere passage of time , however , seems of itself to help legitimize fields of study , perhaps as much through growing indifference as acceptance . |
| 3 | The tight regional labour market for secretarial/office skills seems of itself to give rise to agency working . |
| 4 | Yet the eye-filling white of his work often , ironically , seems like its least important aspect . |
| 5 | IT seems like everyone wants to join the pension scheme — even cold blooded reptiles ! group pensions manager describes the benefits to her newly found friend during a holiday in Thailand . |
| 6 | It seems like nothing , but suddenly everything 's different . |
| 7 | The entire organisation , with its membership of eccentric senior officers and local groups of para-military ladies on the look-out for the Red Menace , seems like nothing so much as raw material for a comic novel of post-war manners . |
| 8 | Poised as it is , midway between the University cities , and on the main line to London , with the M.1. only a few miles away , Wolverton seems like something out of Fanny by Gaslight . |
| 9 | I just seems like something you could just keep building and building forever . |
| 10 | Seems like somebody else has come back from somewhere too . |
| 11 | It seems like it 's the equivalent of the FA Cup Final in this rural regional , far beyond the usual tourist trail . |
| 12 | but erm , er at a stage that they are in and been for a long time in the States as we will have to er get armed , well I 'm sorry to say this but it seems like it |
| 13 | Seems like it worked well enough . ’ |
| 14 | I think I 've always loved you , certainly it seems like it — and you do n't need to look so astonished ; it was true about the home movies , or partly , anyway . |
| 15 | The city seems like it is preparing for a masked ball . |
| 16 | Sometimes I 've er Okay so it seems like it seems like a terrific amount to think about while you 're standing here does n't it as well as thinking about what you 're actually the content of what you 're actually going to say . |
| 17 | anyway at least you 've made contact and it seems , seems like it 's going okay |
| 18 | ‘ It seems like it was so much simpler then . ’ |
| 19 | Well it seems like it . |
| 20 | It seems like it 's cheaper to go away . |
| 21 | Seems like it . |
| 22 | I honestly do n't know Seems like it 's misty here , does n't it ? |
| 23 | But , forgive me , that just seems like it 's a drop in the bucket . |
| 24 | It seems like it 's a pit that people slide into . |
| 25 | Well that seems like it makes a bit of sense . |
| 26 | Yes , but it seems like it 's the mothers who are directing the little boys to think big and directing the little girls to think small . |
| 27 | Du n no about the bleepy cover of the old Traffic song on the CD , ‘ Low Spark of High Heeled Boys ’ , but Derry at least seems like his old fey self . |
| 28 | I mean , eight singles hardly seems like anything at all . |
| 29 | Seems like you 're dead , then . ’ |
| 30 | It seems like you got there 's a logic , there are arguments behind what you 're doing , and you 're equalising things certainly , but I suppose what comes to mind is this phrase to rob Peter to pay Paul , and it must be very difficult to explain to the people in the old folks home when it 's being closed , I 'm sorry , you 're doing this so that somebody else in a different part of the country will have a better quality of life . |