Example sentences of "seem to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 She could hear ventilators pumping somewhere deeper in the complex , but they did n't seem to be equal to the job .
2 References in three separate contexts in Ali suggest that the lowest kadiliks of which the hierarchy normally took cognizance were those at the 25 -akce level ; and these would thus seem to be equivalent to the 20-akce medreses in being the level at which a fully-trained medrese student would expect to receive his first appointment .
3 Richards created a method of defining vessel shape ( 1982 ) using a fixed set of rules ; the profile of vessels is recorded and normalised to a standard height , a parameter which does not seem to be relevant to the definition of forms .
4 We found no change of practice in our study , but this does not seem to be due to a lack of use of management awareness profiles by the maternity units .
5 They do not seem to be adequate to all the convolutions of gendered subjectivities , however .
6 This on the surface may not seem to be hostile to religion , but it causes severe re-interpretation encouraging many people to regard religion as little more than a culturally derived dressing-up game .
7 On entering the yard through the correct entrance , they would have been met by me , who would then have informed them that the smoke was merely magic smoke to lend atmosphere to the proceedings and that there was no cause for total panic as some pupils would seem to be prone to . ’
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