Example sentences of "seem [prep] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strachan : Showed some lovely touches but seemed to be just that bit too slow . |
| 2 | Deane seemed to be nowhere when the telling crosses came in . |
| 3 | Lucy 's relatives seemed to be uniformly and conveniently distributed throughout the south-western peninsula . |
| 4 | They never seemed to be near where Gloria and Dot were . |
| 5 | Kelly seemed to be everywhere and got the praise of all the commentators , as did Whelan . |
| 6 | In the end it seemed to be more or less common ground that the judge did not formally state his reasons when he made his order , although in the course of argument he had indicated that he had sympathy for the debtor 's argument based on section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 7 | I could not believe that such an outburst of violence could happen in Fontanellato , where everybody , including those who belonged to the party , seemed to be more or less on good terms with one another , but when I arrived home I begged my father to be careful and to avoid discussions with anybody except the doctor . |
| 8 | There seemed to be more and more everyday . |
| 9 | As time went by , she seemed to be more and more different . |
| 10 | It was difficult to see her through the dazzling spurts of fire ; she seemed to be less and less there . |
| 11 | There are two general assumptions which seem to be widely if not universally accepted as self-evident . |
| 12 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 13 | I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years . |
| 14 | There seem to be more and more . |
| 15 | The remainder seem to be there as bystanders , sharing only the characteristic that they are in an activated form . |
| 16 | Siliceous crusts , or silcretes , are much more durable , but seem to be mainly if not entirely relict features . |
| 17 | The worst target of all is the one that seems to be near but is forever receding as one gets closer to it . |
| 18 | The worst moment always seems to be immediately before you step into the unknown . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The need for equalization of state pension ages seems to be all but agreed . |
| 21 | Advertising revenue seems to be , there seems to be sometimes that there is some slight pick up , the advertising associations predicting a pick up there , one or two companies who have been reporting , have been talking about a little upturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 22 | It relatively seldom results in marital breakdown nowadays , even when it is discovered by the partner ; and even the temporary trauma induced by the discovery seems to be less that it was once ( there is no real proof of this , nor in the other direction — I base the comment mainly on people 's expressed attitudes ) . |
| 23 | Measurements are unstable and poorly predictive in adolescence , but from 20 years individual variability seems to be less and does not increase with age . |
| 24 | But if we look at distant galaxies , there seems to be more or less the same number of them . |
| 25 | 4.6 There is ample further evidence for regarding the second and third elements in such sequences — unlike the others we have seen so far — as jointly equivalent to a clause at the intensional level ; let us consider the four points which follow : First , most or all such phrases accept the insertion of the explicit predicator to be in front of the adjective ( and to be seems to be more or less obligatory when such adjectives are questioned ) ; we have already seen examples ( e.g. ( 35 ) , ( 41 ) ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Therefore i if we , if he done that then that paragraph would seem to be slightly and the second point was really to ask if there was any further update on the progress in terms of negotiations in Surrey and East Sussex er in terms of this erm particular by-pass and I know that Mr in particular has been concerned with negotiations and Mrs also erm Mrs is not here therefore as Mr could advise me for us o of where we 're at really , so that we fully understand because obviously the the line of the by-pass is very important so far as any further development is is concerned . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | Most of them are directed at girl readers , the assumption seeming to be either that boys have no adolescent problems or that they read only ‘ action ’ books . |