Example sentences of "[vb mod] seem to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For on the one hand the Athenian type of behaviour might seem to be quite incompatible with local state obligations in law and electorally to majority , articulated , social interests . |
| 2 | It is not unknown for senior partners or founding partners to be given an extended period but , whilst opinions may legitimately differ on this , in principle a common retirement age might seem to be less contentious and the lower the age the better . |
| 3 | It would seem to be patently unfair to dismiss a driver with a perfect record prior to a momentary lapse which results in a court imposing a penalty , simply because the works ' rules are so rigidly drawn that the employer is deprived of exercising a discretion . |
| 4 | This would seem to be most applicable to Quadrant 4 types of innovations , and may well be counterproductive in the other areas . |
| 5 | That would seem to be most appropriate strategy for the wounded SARFU would n't it ? |
| 6 | The mobile ALCAN unit would seem to be most mobile — looking at the background it would appear to be parked outside either Safeway or Gateway as there is a ‘ Y ’ and what appears to be part of an ‘ A ’ visible on the store front ! |
| 7 | Let us look in detail at the last of these , since they would seem to be most relevant . |
| 8 | ‘ They would seem to be most valuable papers . |
| 9 | ‘ if it is thought desirable that debentures in their popular meaning may be made irredeemable , it would seem to be both absurd and inconsistent to forbid a company to make its ordinary mortgages of land also irredeemable . ’ |
| 10 | Small-group methods , individual audio-visual programmes , computer-assisted instruction and direct online training would seem to be particularly suitable for online education . |
| 11 | The dividing line between the categories would seem to be less arbitrary and illogical . |
| 12 | This would seem to be unreasonably early considering that Scorton is a tourist area which gets large numbers of visitors on Bank Holidays . |
| 13 | Kaplan 's theory would seem to be the-more plausible of the two , in that it does not depend on parents transmitting the results of their learning to their children ; instead , it can be explained purely in terms of human curiosity . |
| 14 | Some commentators see the last group mainly in terms of the process of the diffusion of technology , but this would seem to be too narrow a use of the concept since spread or diffusion is an essential , and probably the most important , element in all forms of technological change . |
| 15 | However , wood from Trelleborg now implies a construction date of c.980 , and if the other camps are of the same period this would seem to be too early for a connection with Danish raids on England , which are not known to have begun until a decade later ( but see pages 20-2 ) . |
| 16 | Apart from perhaps being of interest to people who make a lot of overseas telephone calls , and need to know what time it is in New York when its ' 11am in London , for example , this program would seem to be very limited in its usefulness . |
| 17 | Apart from perhaps being of interest to people who make a lot of overseas telephone calls , and need to know what time it is in New York when its ' 11am in London , for example , this program would seem to be very limited in its usefulness . |
| 18 | Nonetheless , the limits of the state 's autonomy would seem to be very wide , and Block goes so far as to postulate a ‘ tipping mechanism ’ which could allow the state to take a social formation away from the capitalist mode of production . |
| 19 | With the uncertainty caused by the break-up of the Soviet empire it would seem to be very unwise to drop our defences . |
| 20 | Although the plots of the two books would seem to be very different , they actually end in a similar manner , on a promising note . |
| 21 | This would seem to be unnecessarily pessimistic and may be a conclusion laid at the door of present organisational configurations in our schools . |
| 22 | Inter-country contributions to revenue based upon this kind of proposal would seem to be somewhat arbitrary , and based upon inter-country differences in smoking and drinking . |
| 23 | If Sir Ian intends a moral to be drawn , it would seem to be that prudent paternalism has much to commend it . |
| 24 | This would seem to be more representative and would allow some 2 years between turns ! ! ! ! |
| 25 | This would seem to be more likely to occur in longer input utterances . |
| 26 | On the face of it , such activity would seem to be more expressive of right-wing rather than left-wing sentiments . |
| 27 | In this respect , it would seem to be more important that family relationships improve , whether or not husband and wife remain together , rather than urging parents to ‘ stick it out for the sake of the children ’ in unhappy marriages . |
| 28 | Rimbaud would seem to be especially culpable since ‘ the deconstructions of semantic forms , the destabilizations of meaning , as we have known them during the past decades , derive from Rimbaud 's dissolution of the self ’ . |
| 29 | This would seem to be especially true when the foal exhibits a characteristic that is clearly opposite to how the dam herself has behaved from the time of her birth . |
| 30 | Studies of working memory in animals may seem to be rather remote from the standard , acquired distinctiveness procedure . |