Example sentences of "seem to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his general gist seemed to be close to his lordship 's , concluding with a call for a freezing of German reparation payments and the withdrawal of French troops from the Ruhr region . |
| 2 | At time of NME going to press , the situation in the charts was still ongoing , but the MAS campaign seemed to be close to striking its first blow with the new HOLLY JOHNSON single hovering around the Top 100 . |
| 3 | Always Poshekhonov seemed to be close to him . |
| 4 | There do seem to be some concerns which recur throughout the interviews and seemed to be crucial to people 's views about decision-making in the education and lives of young disabled people . |
| 5 | Patients attending hospital clinics had worse glycaemic control , but this seemed to be attributable to the case mix and practice characteristics . |
| 6 | It seemed to be essential to her sense of identity , but I was finding it wearisome . |
| 7 | In spite of their success they seemed to be vulnerable to extirpation in a way that some of the less imaginative molluscs , like the bivalves seemed to be immune . |
| 8 | As soon as the urban context is broken down even into such crude categories as social class , age or ‘ interests ’ , processes which seemed to be peculiar to particular urban areas turn out to be determined by other factors . |
| 9 | The chaplain called our office a few days later and seemed to be open to information offered regarding preparation for Todd 's First Communion . |
| 10 | While Robyn was hesitating , the office began to fill up with men wearing drab suits and dull ties and with the pasty complexions that seemed to be common to everybody who worked in the factory . |
| 11 | When the child caught this later and went off her food , I found that tiny Marmite sandwiches handed over whilst I pushed the pram round Wood Green and along the New Yatt Road , seemed to be acceptable to the invalid . |
| 12 | The coffee in France always seemed to be superior to the coffee in England , and he had made it just right . |
| 13 | In this paper , we identify a number of conditions that seem to be conducive to their optimum level of functioning . |
| 14 | Although first language acquisition is strictly related to the development of social identity , Watts ' conclusions that a certain set of perceptions is characteristic of Swiss-German readers ( p. 37 ) and that it " may be traced back to the kind of socialization into literacy " ( p. 39 ) are debatable mainly because the presented responses seem to be applicable to various categories of readers . |
| 15 | Feminist psychological theories ' inadequacies seem to be due to their close but largely unexamined relationship with this concept . |
| 16 | In systems integration , for example , Gartner Group rates Bull fourth in Europe and sixth in the world , which is a fact that continually gets lost amid all of Bull 's other bad news — and the French authorities seem to be oblivious to how badly the regular injections of state cash to prop Bull up play in the outside world , causing the company to be regarded as a corporate basket case that would no longer exist if it were subjected to the normal commercial disciplines faced by all its foreign competitors . |
| 17 | On the face of it , two lines of defence seem to be open to him . |
| 18 | Then again , addictions to substances that affect different types of synapse can be quite similar — and some people seem to be prone to addiction per se , rather than just to have a weakness for a particular substance . |
| 19 | Both animals and humans seem to be prone to this . |
| 20 | Barium studies seem to be insensitive to microscopic involvement and may detect only more severe cases . |
| 21 | The conventions of impermanence , where the cat breaks all its teeth or has all its hair burned off or is squashed flat and , the next moment , becomes whole again , seem to be peculiar to the comic strip and the animated cartoon . |
| 22 | Hazel is one of those unfortunate patients who not only have food intolerance , but also seem to be sensitive to various everyday chemicals as well . |
| 23 | This cichlid seems to be tolerant to most water conditions although neutral ( pH 7.0 ) water is recommended . |
| 24 | In the process , we shall explore some recent attempts to construct a theoretical notion of ‘ topic ’ , a notion which seems to be essential to concepts such as ‘ relevance ’ and ‘ coherence ’ , but which itself is very difficult to pin down . |
| 25 | A number of processes have been proposed to explain the formation of back-arc basins but no one mechanism seems to be applicable to all cases . |
| 26 | Numerous mechanisms have been suggested to explain the often significant uplift that has occurred in plate interiors but none seems to be applicable to all cases . |
| 27 | Cullen ( 1974 ) , unreported , seems to be contrary to cases such as Mainwaring . |
| 28 | According to the Bishop of Durham , ‘ This Government also seems to be indifferent to poverty and powerlessness . |
| 29 | PLC- β2 seems to be resistant to stimulation by α q , α 11 , and α 14 , but sensitive to stimulation by α 16 ( refs 9 , 10 ) . |
| 30 | The idea of a chooser , a decider , who has a full capacity for rational decision and choice , seems to be central to our idea of a holder of rights … . |