Example sentences of "seem [prep] [be] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to be space for everyone . |
| 2 | Communist influence in the ILP was growing and although the ILP leadership remained hostile to Communism , there seemed to be opportunities for greatly expanding the Communist Party at the expense of the older and larger party . |
| 3 | The case of Instan seems to be authority for the proposition that a common-law duty was imposed upon the defendant to continue to care for her aunt , having once undertaken this responsibility.55 It would seem to follow from the fact that a relationship has to be created for the duty to arise that if the relationship ceases by one party releasing and absolving the other of his obligations , the duty also ceases . |
| 4 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ I thought we would have got a few back after our last few results , but this seems to be par for the course lately . ’ |
| 5 | There always seems to be room for a new maker of jeans . |
| 6 | While there is some research activity in linking statistical models to GIS there would seem to be scope for further applications of operations research techniques to GIS problems . |
| 7 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 8 | Apart from these generational patterns of support between parents and children , there does seem to be pressure for assistance to be reciprocated . |