Example sentences of "seems [prep] be [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client . |
| 2 | ‘ The idea seems to be to blast everything in sight . ’ |
| 3 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 4 | Like the new media , phosphate removal seems to be getting plenty of attention lately . |
| 5 | Since my presence seems to be provoking you to acts of wild aggression , I think it would be best to leave you in peace for a while . |
| 6 | If things have n't been going well at work and success seems to be passing you by talk to colleague and see what they think of your prospects . |
| 7 | The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect . |
| 8 | It is the more remarkable that Pound in his letter to Williams should diagnose himself as suffering from a milder form of Eliot 's disease ; most of the time , alike in his life and his poetry , he seems to be denying it by strenuously over-compensating . |
| 9 | ‘ Lewis seems to be making it in the old alternative comedy scene , does n't he ? ’ |