Example sentences of "seem [prep] be [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deane seemed to be nowhere when the telling crosses came in . |
| 2 | They never seemed to be near where Gloria and Dot were . |
| 3 | There are two general assumptions which seem to be widely if not universally accepted as self-evident . |
| 4 | The remainder seem to be there as bystanders , sharing only the characteristic that they are in an activated form . |
| 5 | Siliceous crusts , or silcretes , are much more durable , but seem to be mainly if not entirely relict features . |
| 6 | The worst moment always seems to be immediately before you step into the unknown . |
| 7 | There seems to be nowhere where we could start , no sentence whose meaning is , as it were , self-contained enough to be learnable as a first step towards learning the rest . |
| 8 | The need for equalization of state pension ages seems to be all but agreed . |
| 9 | But it does seem to be again if we 're going back to Government guidance who are justifying extra policies to be brought forward to this alteration , it is a serious omission this alteration that there is no policy which deals with rural affordable housing . |
| 10 | In the case of the work of the Mexican Alberto Gironella , the reason would seem to be precisely because of his insistent concentration on art of a very different category — that of Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , particularly court portraiture . |
| 11 | This would still seem to be so if most , though not all , the terms are standard — if , say , there are minor variations from one buyer to another ( e.g. as to the commodity or the quantity bought or the price to be paid ) . |