Example sentences of "would seem [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 'd seem to be ideal for anyone wishing to avoid police cameras . |
| 2 | But as the male can just as easily catch small prey , the female would seem to be disadvantaged . |
| 3 | A better name would seem to be Cadomian , after the Roman name for Caen in Normandy , where all the Precambrian sediments seem to have been tectonised before the beginning of the early Palaeozoic . |
| 4 | There would seem to be four types of players contesting the board and two axes on which the game pivots : conservative — transformist ( a safer term than ‘ radical ’ ) , and centraliser — de-centraliser ( a safer term than ‘ liberal ’ ) . |
| 5 | Written resolutions can not be used to remove directors and auditors , but the s 382B procedure would seem to be available , so that removal of a non-member director or the auditor without a meeting or without director or auditor representation could be achieved in that way . |
| 6 | The mood would seem to be temporary ; judging by the ever-decreasing number of Trabants on eastern Germany 's roads no one , when faced with the superior horsepower of Volkswagen , Audi and Mercedes , is that nostalgic . |
| 7 | This would seem to be one of the few events that had any lasting emotional effect on him . |
| 8 | There would seem to be ample justification for preventive interventions aimed at reducing feelings of helplessness , if it were possible , and of enhancing feelings of self-esteem for women raised in institutions or for other reasons experiencing a marked lack of care in childhood . |
| 9 | Usually Aunt Louise would seem to be asleep , or not to realize I was there . |
| 10 | In a world in which women are understood to be the equals of men , and in which we must promote the equality of people of different races , such a Christology as that which I was proposing would seem to be fruitful . |
| 11 | The point was not seen in Collins , which would seem to be incorrect on this issue . |
| 12 | Acceptance of these presuppositions would seem to be possible only on the basis of faith , and this point is made by Gandhi when he says |
| 13 | If such stipulations are made for so mundane a practice as motoring , they would seem to be reasonable precautions for protecting our environment for the rest of time from possible damage by man-made creatures . |
| 14 | And with the millions of insects buzzing , crawling , flying and swimming about , all needing to communicate with their own kind and with other associated species , but not with the millions of other creatures , this would seem to be essential to avoid confusion . |
| 15 | Although the latter would seem to be essential , they could contain a large proportion of practical exercises , as is common in papers in mathematics . |
| 16 | The scepticism follows because if we are confined in experience to the contents of our own minds alone , it would seem to be impossible that we should ever come to know anything about — or even come intelligibly to think about — things outside our own minds . |
| 17 | Perhaps this position can best be tested by taking an extreme example — a crime which it would seem to be impossible to accept as being within the ‘ normal ’ range of human motivations : sexual abuse of children . |
| 18 | But it would seem to be impossible for us to return to patristic sensibilities , for the framework of thought which made that Christology possible is no longer with us . |
| 19 | Accordingly it would seem to be impossible to entrench a provision in our constitution . |
| 20 | It would seem to be middle sized undertaking , since the very large business will employ personnel managers and legal experts who need no introduction to the subject , while the smaller operator ( the book quotes the average number of goods vehicles per operator 's licence as no more than three trucks ) is normally too concerned with driving by the seat of his pants while looking over his shoulder at legal requirements ( one may envisage ! ) to worry unduly about the skills of communication or the restrictions on picketing flowing from decisions of the courts as well as statute in the event of a major dispute . |
| 21 | There would seem to be little doubt that Parliament could , by passing an Act ( which would , of course , necessitate the Royal Assent ) establish a republic . |
| 22 | Indeed , a large part of his public life and known history would seem to be little more than an embodiment and re-enactment of the prophecies . |
| 23 | Indeed action would seem to be necessary for the input systems to function properly : the role of eye-movements in vision being the most obvious case . |
| 24 | There is no neurophysiological model of the kind of convergence that would seem to be necessary for the many different sensations of the moment to be brought into synthetic unity , without loss of their individual distinctiveness and specificity , into the instantaneous sense of ‘ being here ’ ; or of the manner in which experience of many different moments can be synthesized into a sense of continuing self without those moments losing their separateness in memory . |
| 25 | Smaller super-constituencies , then , would seem to be necessary . |
| 26 | A successful outcome in these areas would seem to be necessary if the EC is to be able to finance the activities necessary to build the new European Economy . |
| 27 | Comparable data from H 2 receptor antagonist maintenance trials are limited , but would seem to be similar for both cimitidine 400 mg once daily ( estimated reduction in DU relapse rate compared with placebo ranges from 26% to 37% ) , ranitidine 150 mg once daily ( estimated reductions of 24%. 39% and 48% ) and famotidine 20–40 mg once daily ( estimated 32–34% reduction in relapse rate ) . |
| 28 | Obviously Mr Lamont accepts this view and the overall balance he has struck would seem to be right . |
| 29 | Obviously , Mr Lamont accepts this view and the overall balance he has struck would seem to be right . |
| 30 | This approach would seem to be correct because goods in that condition were unsaleable by the buyer under the contract description ( but compare Cehave v Bremer [ 1976 ] QB 44 ) . |