Example sentences of "seem [prep] be [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , what he seemed to be suggesting was that a woman with her not inconsiderable sex drive might have been expected , long ago , to have found a man to satisfy it . |
| 2 | What seemed to be happening was the spread of population growth out from the major urban centres where it had occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressively to the more rural periphery , leaving a population loss in its wake . |
| 3 | All Kevin Rowland seemed to be saying was that he had something to say . |
| 4 | What most of the practitioners seemed to be saying was that the satisfactions of practice lay in ‘ helping people ’ , whatever the problem , whereas the frustrations lay in their inability to exercise their technical skills more fully because of the pressure of time . |
| 5 | But what he seemed to be sensing was that the boy was dangerous . |
| 6 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |
| 7 | Indeed , the key choice many managers now seem to be making is whether they develop their own system or buy one ‘ off the shelf ’ from several management consultants in the field . |
| 8 | We seldom read in the tabloid press local police force fails er we may frequently read in the local press in the tabloid press rather , that the Home Secretary has failed and yet what we seem to be saying is that we believe that all the responsibility should be local , all that responsibility , all the blame when things go wrong should go to the Home Secretary . |
| 9 | What we seem , what we seem to be doing is increase the provision |
| 10 | At first sight what he seems to be saying is simply that no one is going to take any notice of the conclusions which a rational woman reaches after deliberation . |
| 11 | And what seems to be happening is that we 're gradually remembering people we know in other regions and |
| 12 | What seems to be happening is that Valerie is adopting a " Jamaican " persona in which irritation may be shown more freely ( but also , perhaps , less threateningly ) to a person 's face . |
| 13 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 14 | What seems to be occurring is not so much a shift away from the conspiracy tradition , but a shift — for reasons of tactics and internal politics — in the way the conspiracy theory is to be presented . |
| 15 | What Mr seems to be directing is that the settlement should be directed to those areas which are at present have pleasant tree cover and things , which theoretically can assimilate a new settlement which in the context of the Vale of York , tend to be those areas which are th are of the better landscape quality . |
| 16 | And all everybody else seems to be doing is trying to stop me . ’ |
| 17 | Although the correspondence between the use of Creole and the description of the customer 's actions is not perfect , what the narrator seems to be doing is creating a persona for his character " the difficult customer " by linking him to Creole . |