Example sentences of "seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim gets out of Africa , and as he does so , there seem to be allusions to the journey upriver in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , which also ends ( though by no means hopefully ) with an Intended . |
| 2 | In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards . |
| 3 | Few auditions seem to be chosen from the works of Samuel Beckett — Waiting for Godot and Endgame are the only two which seem to offer possibilities . |
| 4 | Most of my family is in the medical profession and doctors always seem to be full of drama . |
| 5 | In recent years serious damage to the historic interiors of pubs has resulted from the creation of the open-plan which now seem to be pubs ' standard internal layout . |
| 6 | Those old , glazed rope-twist tiles seem to be hard to find nowadays , and the ones in the picture will have been in the garden for many years . |
| 7 | His fears seem to be well founded , for a move towards regionalization is now occurring , with a proposal that the forty-three forces disappear into perhaps eight or nine giant regional units . |
| 8 | Even the civilian academics at the college seem to be nullified by the overriding police desire for circumspection in the written account and the preference for academic silence . |
| 9 | For even the least reflexive or philosophical seem to be aware of the potential for reversal inherent in this system of power , where the sacred and the profane have the possibility of turning upon each other at every conjunction . |
| 10 | In many ways these reflexive moments are invaluable in helping to explain the specificities of what Evans-Pritchard ( 1951 ) suggested we might consider as an ‘ anthropological history ’ , especially as these alternative periods and the movement through the liminal phase create points in a social process when aspects of structure seem to be made more clearly apparent to the analyst . |
| 11 | Francis is knocked out and so am I. I seem to be doing more and more advisory art stuff for Lucy 's magazine , positively volunteering , my dear , what is happening ? |
| 12 | On the other hand , materialists seem to be prevented by their materialism from allowing that there is any relevant fact that BS does not know . |
| 13 | It helps , of course , that tennis people in general be they spectators , administrators , media or players , all seem to be accommodating and welcoming of the increased media opportunities which are now available to broadcasters . |
| 14 | Designs composed of small masses of veneer forming a readable ‘ picture ’ , correspond roughly in looks , if not in colour , to subjects as they actually appear to the eye ; they seem to be in 3D even though they are flat , and to a degree they are naturalistic . |
| 15 | ‘ Marstons seem to be doing its best to get rid of them . ’ |
| 16 | The discoverers added a number of routes , the best of which seem to be Cookie Monster E7 6b , and the most popular Wagtail E3 5b . |
| 17 | In the last of these veins , Harman acknowledges , ‘ The problem , on the surface at least , is the persistence , the seriousness , with which an intelligence of this order employs devices that seem to be at best witty and at worst trivial . ’ |
| 18 | I already seem to be overloading a non-existent syllabus . |
| 19 | Large companies still seem to be finding it increasingly difficult to retain top management . |
| 20 | This dodge would not be completely incredible , of course , if the participants were dense or desperate enough , but in Christopher Renshaw 's production , they seem to be neither , and particularly not the latter . |
| 21 | The flat-fronted facades are often decorated with intricate brickwork , and even modern restorations seem to be strictly controlled in a style that combines discreet Post-Modern twiddly with forms and colours that are in the spirit of the original . |
| 22 | But some quite surprising right-wing converts to the idea seem to be popping out of the woodwork , attracted by Mr Lawson 's mistitled idea of ‘ competing currencies ’ . |
| 23 | Right now , we seem to be ready to cripple lives and curb them — creating houses we shall regret and preferring town cramming to town planning . |
| 24 | Because New Jersey does not have its own television station , or even a state newspaper , the candidates have bought expensive air time on the New York City-based stations and in Mr Florio 's case , they seem to be working . |
| 25 | Women are making such progress in the world of French crime that they sometimes seem to be monopolising the police report headlines . |
| 26 | We parents in America seem to be cowed a lot . |
| 27 | The zones seem to be associated with different moods and eras , post-industrial apocalyptic for the car-park , medieval for the kitchens , belle epoque for the dining-room , and high-tech for the lavatories . |
| 28 | Ford 's employees are also wont to point out that their mortgage payments have rocketed over the past year and negotiations will take place against a background in which interest rates seem to be moving in one direction only . |
| 29 | Therefore ‘ easing ’ , which is normally presented as the opposite to work , can for the neighbourhood men ( and also the community relations police ) be construed as official police work , and quite often much of the best community work is done by neighbourhood men when they seem to be relaxing . |
| 30 | All that shelling last night , the activity on the road this morning , things seem to be moving . ’ |