Example sentences of "seems to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahmed 's revulsion from Jane sometimes seems to be shared by the writer . |
| 2 | But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river . |
| 3 | How could there be ? the novel seems to be saying . |
| 4 | Poor Charles brings him to life again , however , for some further plagiarisms : a nest of antique-dealers , of antic disposition , in Chatterton 's native Bristol , have passed to Charles a cache of papers which , together with the discovery of what seems to be the portrait of an adult Chatterton , persuades him that the poet lived on . |
| 5 | Beyond this , the use of biography , its actual ability to throw light ( rather than just to be entertaining and nice to have around ) , seems to be a fantasy . |
| 6 | At the same time , the article is tainted by what seems to be a desire to inflict damage on Levi 's reputation , of a kind which may be thought to serve the ideological tendency of the magazine in which it appeared . |
| 7 | He seems to be talking in a series of jumpy thoughts . |
| 8 | Well , the agents and the casting directors are one thing , then there 's an amorphous list of anyone who seems to be connected with theatre , film and television . |
| 9 | For movement and dance , the Pineapple Studios in the same part of town seems to be one of the best there is , though it is not intended primarily for dancers and actors — people from all sorts of professions come along to keep fit . |
| 10 | No actor seems to be . |
| 11 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 12 | How the glass seems to be bringing together so many of my old themes , he wrote . |
| 13 | That seems to be the pattern . |
| 14 | ‘ Now then , now then , ’ Sergeant Bramble spoke in reassuring country tones , ‘ what seems to be the problem ? ’ |
| 15 | And film seems to be an art ’ . |
| 16 | In cases of harassment , the law seems to be very much on the side of the landlord . |
| 17 | ‘ You being poor seems to be the immediate problem . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The system seems to be rather inflexible , ’ she said testily . |
| 19 | ‘ Designer ’ seems to be the buzz adjective of the eighties . |
| 20 | If this does happen , the only solution seems to be to disconnect the instruments and to pump air through the system to blow out the water and dry the tubing . |
| 21 | The ideal seems to be to have a down load on the tow bar of 10–15 kg ( 20–301b ) . |
| 22 | Young and old people may be affected and there seems to be no way of knowing who will have this kind of problem . |
| 23 | Discuss it with other parents or schoolteachers if there seems to be a problem locally . |
| 24 | Today , in the early 1990s there seems to be every possibility their taste for autocracy and power might persuade the police that secrecy should take on a new dimension , so that sedition could acquire new status as a deviance , while even the ‘ espionage ’ of ethnography could well become actionable . |
| 25 | There seems to be little chance of any philosophical , unprogrammatic enquiry here which might be critical of the system ; and no ‘ espionage ’ from within ! |
| 26 | The internal phone system springs into life and the moves are analysed or colleagues contacted to speculate on who has ‘ blotted his copy book ’ , or who seems to be on his way up the hierarchical tree in the mad scramble for position and preference . |
| 27 | But I 've talked , as you know , to so many women , and sex seems to be a wholly other experience . |
| 28 | Begin what seems to be a front kick , then change it at the last moment into a high roundhouse kick . |
| 29 | But there also seems to be a more personal element , too . |
| 30 | ‘ That seems to be exactly what you are planning to do . ’ |