Example sentences of "seem [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected Charity to scoff at such weakness , but surprisingly , she seemed only to be concerned with how that could be arranged . |
| 2 | He seemed only to be able to breathe shallowly . |
| 3 | Others seemed genuinely to be pleased with the way things were going , while in a third group discussion centred on how much more usefully the time could be spent with the National Childbirth Trust . |
| 4 | I went through the first pile , which seemed mainly to be stock orders from golf professionals around the country , and started on the next tray . |
| 5 | It was this principle that seemed now to be inadequate . |
| 6 | In France , however , there seemed initially to be little concern in government circles at the economic recession abroad . |
| 7 | Her smile was luxurious , and as her eyes did briefly meet Alice 's , she seemed actually to be tantalising and teasing . |
| 8 | However , if one takes the women from others of his novels , they seem mostly to be devoted wives and mothers or grieving widows , or at the very worst spinster sister house-keepers . |
| 9 | It is also worth nothing , I think , that although ‘ whole-person ’ , ‘ humanistic ’ approaches seem superficially to be opposed to behaviourism in their recognition of the individual 's personality , on closer inspection the two views on learning seem in one fundamental respect to be essentially alike . |
| 10 | There seem also to be other compositional differences , such as in the silicates which make up the greater part of both planets . |
| 11 | Apart from simple evasive and defensive reactions , in which they play a dominant role , reflex arcs seem mainly to be involved in perfecting movements that are initiated by central mechanisms or in helping to maintain the nervous system in a state of adequate excitation . |
| 12 | A heady , intoxicating venom — which you seem almost to be drunken on already . ’ |
| 13 | So all those myths about the wicked step- father , the wicked step-mother and so forth seem almost to be true in this respect . |
| 14 | For some patients this seems superficially to be effective , but for men or women whose background or culture more readily allows them to express feeling , this is very difficult . |
| 15 | The fourth meaning appears to be a combination of the first and third meanings where non-sexual and sexual attraction are combined , and which seems also to be applicable to human beings only . |
| 16 | As will be shown below , there is some reason , though not perhaps positive evidence , for supposing that his appointment to the Muftilik occurred relatively late in his life ; and there seems also to be good reason to suppose that his appointment to the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese occurred before his appointment to the kadilik since it was usual even in the early days of the Ottoman state for a man to have done some teaching before being appointed to as important a kadilik as that of the capital city . |
| 17 | Many other companies , of course , are supporting environmental work but IBM seems almost to be unique in its corporate commitment to use of high technology for facilitating ‘ sustainable development ’ . |
| 18 | More importantly , Griffin seems either to be confused or just wrong about consciousness . |
| 19 | ‘ The factory seems currently to be booming and increasing its market share , ’ he said . |
| 20 | That some of this waste is unavoidable is probably true , for the aggressive instinct seems never to be satisfied with entirely impersonal objectives . |
| 21 | Symptomatic obstruction with a colorectal stricture in ulcerative colitis seems therefore to be diagnostic of malignancy . |
| 22 | For the older child one warning of your intention to use this method would seem only to be fair . |
| 23 | This may seem only to be valid comment upon a fundamentalist ‘ wing ’ of Christianity . |
| 24 | The inclusion of this demand , in the context of feminism , may seem now to be obvious , but the struggle to make sexuality a respectable platform was an acrimonious one . |