Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 2 | A storm always seems a strange thing in a great city , where there are so many immoveables . |
| 3 | A misunderstanding then seems to have occurred with Fimbra writing to its members last week saying that its scheme had not been altered in any way and that members could not renew existing policies if the renewal date was after 1990 . |
| 4 | When you visit you 'll wonder why such a gem of a village always seems so uncrowded and peaceful . |
| 5 | Although Lee Crooks , the Great Britain forward , was taken off Leeds 's transfer list recently , a move still seems likely with Castleford the likeliest destination . |
| 6 | I ca n't imagine that I am alone with this problem — stretching a canvas imperfectly seems like such an easy mistake to make . |
| 7 | Certainly a picture often seems to be ‘ framed ’ perfectly in such cases . |
| 8 | The enthusiastic liberal solutions of a decade ago seem to have failed ; the rise of passionate single-issue politics , the decline of party loyalty and the new brittleness that resists compromises make the tasks of leadership more difficult . ’ |
| 9 | For a final moment the inflamed bruise on his left calf where the scorpion had stung him a week before seemed to blaze with new agonizing fire . |
| 10 | Caroline had never grown used to it but she had learned to ignore it , even here , in Italy , where admiring a woman openly seemed almost a national pastime . |
| 11 | Wallace 's observation of up to thirty eggs in a nest therefore seems somewhat doubtful . |
| 12 | Yeah the eight thirty , the eight o'clock service is a lot more seems a lot more compact , I know you have n't got the hymns , but it seems to erm start , go on and finish , you know it |
| 13 | But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring . |
| 14 | Buying direct from a manufacturer often seems the most attractive option at first glance . |
| 15 | A way forward seemed to have emerged some decades ago with the school of " facet analysis " developed from the work of Dr S. R. Ranganathan , whose revolutionary Colon Classification is widely in use throughout India . |
| 16 | A PLOT 70 15ft which just accommodates three people at a time hardly seems a typical garden to open to the public . |
| 17 | News is that the first single , ‘ One Day , One Time ’ , will emerge some time during September , while an album now seems a certainty for 1993 . |
| 18 | While do-it-yourself rock , fan-club organizations and dancing-in-the-aisles are certainly not independent of industry interests , such a breathtaking theoretical closure reduces the musical role of the vast majority of humankind to a subservient attempt to match up , as listeners , to the demands of ‘ advanced ’ producers ; Marx 's vision of a future with every man an artist certainly seems to be definitively buried , but on a less exalted level , there is once again no attempt to look for the possibility of contradictory meanings in the actual practice of real listeners . |
| 19 | Once again , an initially English impulse of research has proposed and substantially validated an a cappella approach which seems to offer one kind of solution to this problem , but while the evidence for such an approach now seems to be strong it is important to clarify what has taken place , at least as far as the secular polyphonic song repertories of the Middle Ages are concerned . |