Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] seems [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Read v. Lyons , Lord Porter commented that ‘ non-natural user seems to be a question of fact … and in deciding this question I think that all the circumstances of time and practice of mankind must be taken into consideration so that what may be regarded as dangerous or non-natural may vary according to the circumstances . ’ |
| 2 | This emotional response seems to be the result of the unique yin-formation of the pit : deep unconscious imagery can arise in these places , and a mood of chastening solemnity will prevail . |
| 3 | An interesting , if somewhat methodologically weak , study by Flaherty and his colleagues ( 1983 ) on adolescent pregnancies seems to be in line with this notion of planning ability . |
| 4 | The current culture at British Rail seems to be — and I have heard this said by the chief executive — that freight is not time-sensitive . |
| 5 | Given the social determination of the concept of a person and the absence of unanimity in the the outcome of moral deliberation , the only proper course seems to be to endorse constitutional arrangements neutral between conceptions of the good in order to enable all individuals to develop and pursue their own conception of the good . |
| 6 | Fear stalks the world of financial reporting So far , the Review Panel 's tough attitude to wayward accounting seems to be working |
| 7 | The structuralism that Lévi-Strauss applies in cultural anthropology seems to be asking the question ‘ what does it mean ? ’ — a very different problematic from that of structural linguistics . |
| 8 | The hon. Lady seems to be confusing the regulatory record of my Department with the regulators outside my Department , who were deliberately set up as independent regulators as a result of legislation passed by the House . |
| 9 | But sexual intercourse seems to be becoming ever more popular . |
| 10 | Every conceivable exercise seems to be here , apart from diving full-length to catch lemons hurled the length of a swimming-pool . |
| 11 | The idea that it was a foreign plot seems to be the least likely of the possibilities , because although Stalin believed that they wanted to crush Russia I do n't see how killing Kirov this would help a foreign power in any way to crush Stalin 's Russia . |
| 12 | The closer the inspection , the less like a ‘ classical ’ demographic transition the British record seems to be , and the more difficult it is to attribute its timing directly to the development of an urban-industrial society ( Woods 1987 ) . |
| 13 | The problem is that dependent development seems to be possible not only in the Third World but also in underprivileged areas within the hegemonic countries of the First World . |
| 14 | The divide in English studies seems to be between those who want to bring the rift out into the open , and those who prefer to pretend that it does n't exist . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman seems to be excelling in gloom and doom today . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman seems to be totally ignorant of and unable to adjust to President Yeltsin 's announcement in which he made it absolutely clear that our determination to maintain a minimum deterrent is no obstruction to the determination that he and President Bush have to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the super-powers . |
| 17 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |
| 18 | On the most general level Foucault 's society of normalisation is in danger of being as rigidly functional , tending towards a necessary social equilibrium , as Talcott Parsons ' , particularly as both the resistances and the individual internalisations are not specified : social control seems to be absolute . |
| 19 | In some languages , such as Japanese and Chinese , a totally different pattern seems to be in operation . |
| 20 | The London English code seems to be favoured for asides and insertions . |
| 21 | However , Jerrome 's findings do not refer at all to ‘ tending ’ activities ; the importance of friends in old age seems to be more about a natural extension of satisfying experiences and modes of behaviour in earlier years than about a changed conception of the nature of the relationship which could accommodate more ‘ caring ’ activity . |
| 22 | Local increase in the number of intraepithelial lymphocytes seems to be an early event in the coeliac lesion ( the so called infiltrative lesion ) . |
| 23 | IN THE terrible days of moral uncertainty that we have experienced when public awareness seems to be fading , it is to you I speak , you who live , who walk in the streets , who breathe , who enjoy life with your family , your children . |
| 24 | World War Two German aviation seems to be the theme of this month 's Collectair as a letter from Lorenz Rasse of Livermore , California , brings news of a fine metal model of an Me.262 given to him by former pilot Franz Kulp of III/JG7 . |
| 25 | The old man seems to be clenching his teeth . |
| 26 | The infant mortality of first born children seems to be very high in most communities , if they were born to mothers less than 20 years old . |
| 27 | The risk of sexual transmission seems to be low when compared with hepatitis B virus , HIV , and other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 28 | On balance then , familial sinistrality seems to be associated with bilateral representation of non-verbal as well as verbal functions . |
| 29 | This apparent role of the cholinergic system in enhancing synaptic activity seems to be mediated by the phosphoinositide system . |
| 30 | One of the difficulties in teaching , or learning about , electronic publishing seems to be identifying the scope of the subject . |