Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the lectures at the Royal Institution seem to indicate is that despite these changes the age of ‘ two cultures ’ was still some way off ; at the elite level , those interested in the advance of science also wanted to hear about other cultural activity . |
| 2 | What few people seem to accept is that he might be exactly what he appears to be . |
| 3 | ‘ What you seem to forget is that it 's on sixteen years since you left this house . |
| 4 | Every time you say that , what you really seem to mean is that there 's a hell of a lot wrong but you 're not prepared to discuss it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 6 | What seems to emerge is that Iraq 's foreign-exchange reserves , which amounted to $20 billion in 1980 , had reached $30 billion the following year . |
| 7 | Okay right erm , so what seems to emerge is that it 's economic factors that are the most important er determinants affecting the migrant 's decision . |
| 8 | ‘ Nick , ’ he continued with a tone of wry honesty in his voice , ‘ there are some mighty clever people who say I could be President of the United States three years from now , but what no one seems to realise is that I do n't care about that . |
| 9 | The problem Steve seems to have is that he ca n't stop himself asking banal , pretentious , inconsequential questions which produce zero ( sic ) by way of an interesting response . |
| 10 | What seems to happen is that an individual , given his arrival in a situation , reviews it in the context of his own objectives and decides that if he takes certain actions , the situation will change in the direction of his objectives . |
| 11 | What it seems to mean is that if this pump had been required in an emergency , it would not have been immediately available and although , after a lifetime in industry , I know that such errors and failure can and do happen , there is really no room for such occurrences in nuclear generation . |
| 12 | What you do n't seem to know is that I 'm working for Query and not for you . |
| 13 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 14 | What the hon. Gentleman does not seem to understand is that one can have a progressive system with two rates . |
| 15 | What they do n't seem to realise is that we do n't keep spares in the office , so all we can do is send them on to Ablex anyway , so you 'll have longer to wait . |
| 16 | What Mr Patten does n't seem to realise is that most seven to 11-year-old children — and I do n't mean his own privileged daughter Mary Claire — need to be eased and teased into acquiring a reading habit . |
| 17 | What people do n't seem to realise is that families outside still have to support prisoners . |