Example sentences of "would seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
| 2 | The truth of this conjecture would seem to be confirmed by Agatha Christie 's choice of titles for the 1938 volume , Hercule Poirot 's Christmas and the 1960 collection , The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a selection of Entrees . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It would seem to be a truism that the mind is a representing device . |
| 5 | This may look like an easy knock-down argument against a silly theory which nobody has ever seriously held : but what is true of mental pictures would seem to be true of any kind of mental representing process which encodes sensations in some determinate form . |
| 6 | Well , if a thesis that it is difficult to make sense of allows a conclusion that is repugnant , then the rational course would seem to be to take this as another reason for distrusting the thesis : not as a reason for admitting the repugnant conclusion . |
| 7 | But when we turn to the input systems there would seem to be no choice but to use the language of ‘ representations ’ . |
| 8 | In short , a representational theory of the input systems would seem to be a necessity , whereas a representational theory of the central systems would seem to be a non-starter . |
| 9 | In short , a representational theory of the input systems would seem to be a necessity , whereas a representational theory of the central systems would seem to be a non-starter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | a short trunk route between two major conurbations , electrification already in place at either end , that would seem to be the absolute classic next stage . |
| 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 | Another thing , sociology would seem to be saying that those who have wealth and do well do so at the expense of the poor unfortunate . |
| 15 | Rimbaud would seem to be especially culpable since ‘ the deconstructions of semantic forms , the destabilizations of meaning , as we have known them during the past decades , derive from Rimbaud 's dissolution of the self ’ . |
| 16 | In the case of the work of the Mexican Alberto Gironella , the reason would seem to be precisely because of his insistent concentration on art of a very different category — that of Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , particularly court portraiture . |
| 17 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 18 | She will need to go if she is to take what would seem to be a deserved place in the record books . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One lab , one set of engineers and a worldwide sales force would seem to be all that is needed if it is true that companies and markets are becoming more global . |
| 21 | In such a state , driven by the worst fear of all , that of sudden death , and given that they are all approximately equal in power , it would seem to be in men 's interests that they reach some agreement , each to have only as much liberty as he is prepared to allow to others . |
| 22 | Usually Aunt Louise would seem to be asleep , or not to realize I was there . |
| 23 | This view would seem to be supported by the Sunday census of March 1851 , when it was found that in London only 37% of the inhabitants attended any form of divine service , whilst in eight other cities with populations in excess of 100,000 the figure was only 42% . |
| 24 | It would seem to be all over . |
| 25 | Abraham would seem to be dealing with a God who has his own cruelty , and who can not be relied upon to keep his promises . |
| 26 | Yet in another respect the story would seem to be running still true to plot . |
| 27 | That would seem to be the case here , where we must remember that the storyteller had as his raw material a tale about a demon far , far removed from the mainstream of Israel 's talk about her God . |
| 28 | The penultimate story of the series ( 20.2–1 3 ) would seem to be the only one to break the pattern . |
| 29 | Therefore red fish would seem to be the best major source of vitamin D , although vegetarians who do not eat fish need to rely on the other sources mentioned . |
| 30 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |