Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Regatta chairman talks about the way hospitality had taken over the regatta course and howm glad they are that it seems to be declining . |
| 2 | Absolutely no interest in politics whatsoever you know all they 'd done it 's you know it 's sad to see things the way they are but it seems to be that with the world over at the moment so . |
| 3 | At some point or other , though Jack has never discussed the possibility in public , he appears to have suspected that all might not be as it seemed in the Nicholson household . |
| 4 | The text needs to be watched closely for all may not be as it seems at first . |
| 5 | Therefore , for all my reasons I have chosen to display , I conclude that Mark Antony is a first class example of ‘ Things are not always being as they seem . ’ |
| 6 | If things were as they seemed it would n't matter . |
| 7 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 8 | ‘ The only indication we have is that somebody seems to have drawn the bolt on the yard door between Gerald failing to get in at 11.15 , and the mystery woman succeeding at 11.30 . |
| 9 | A R. What you are saying is that everyone seems to miss the work of Litz Pisk [ a legendary movement teacher at Central School ] who had such movement sense . |
| 10 | What makes it worse is that nobody seems to know what happened . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The trouble is that nobody seems able to tell me when I 'm likely to get any money ! |
| 12 | The problem is that we seem to have dropped the Health Service off more and more and more over that period of time , and I think , to be fair , the programme sums it all up , two motions on the Health Service . |
| 13 | My view of the exhibition and these complementary texts is that they seem for the most part to lack the critical motivation and the dialectical irony of the Situationists . |
| 14 | Their similarity to the preceding cases is that they seem to fall within an accepted canon of traditional wordings ( one , incidentally , which as Ulpian shows is also subject to extension by analogy ) . |
| 15 | The trouble is that they seem not to . |
| 16 | But the danger in some ‘ deconstructionist ’ theories , however , is that they seem to leave no space for the material struggles or ordinary aspirations of women . |
| 17 | The child is surrounded by GIANTS , and the trouble with these beastly GIANTS is that they seem to spend most of their lives telling the child WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO . |
| 18 | Perhaps the oddest feature of evidence on spillovers is that they seem to be particularly prevalent in high R&D sectors , and this raises the question of whether they actually do undermine incentives to do R&D ( see Levin , 1988 ) . |
| 19 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 20 | What does matter is that something seems seriously wrong with Gaia . |
| 21 | All I can tell you is that someone seems to want to harm you . |
| 22 | What most strikes you about this elegantly swaddled creature is that she seems encumbered by the costume of her role . |
| 23 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 24 | The most important of these is that there seems to be no evidence that people assumed automatic responsibility for their relatives — including parents — who were old , sick , or in some other circumstance where they were unable to work to maintain themselves . |
| 25 | My one , half-hearted reservation is that there seems just a hint that the ‘ rural ’ artist with his scenes of idyllic country peace has an easier task . |
| 26 | Perhaps the vessels ' only common denominator , other than their work , is that there seems to be no common denominator ! |
| 27 | My only complaint is that there seems to be no way of selecting a between a horizontal or vertical tiling split . |
| 28 | This went smoothly and is a great improvement but in order to create the compressed drive and double the hard disk capacity the SuperStor program took my hard disk ( drive C : ) and seemed to create a compressed drive D : it then swaps drive D and drive C so that the compressed drive is now C : The result is that I seem to be locked out of my old drive D in Rom which has one or two useful bits on — like a hardware check program . |
| 29 | The reason the coding metaphor has such currency in contemporary talk about perception is that it seems to suggest a way in which very simple and apparently homogenous elements such as nerve impulses can generate the richness and variety of consciousness . |
| 30 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |