Example sentences of "seems [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The sense of rescue undoubtedly gives a special strain of idealization to these comments , but this seems to go back to the childhood experience rather than to be a retrospective gloss .
2 Seems to go back to the start again .
3 and it seems to carry on up the stairs
4 It 's strange , but since being diagnosed the word CANCER seems to leap out of every magazine and newspaper .
5 Nobody who has ever taken the trouble to visit General Gouraud 's observation post on a cold , dank winter 's day , could ever escape the hell-hole ambiance of such a deathly place which seems to reach out over the decades of time to shame and sicken the human race .
6 And that is , that it seems to look back to the writings of Darwin .
7 His body always seems to bulk up after a day like this : he can see increased sponginess around his waist and chest .
8 The water seems to dry up on the road without getting too far .
9 Sin and sex do somehow go together and this seems to tie in with the distinction I made much earlier on between the scientific view that man differs from other animals only in degree and the religious view that there is an essential difference in kind .
10 The view that has found favour amongst those involved with Earth Mysteries , and one which seems to spring out of the page when these legends are brought together , is that most folklore associated with ancient sites can best be interpreted in terms of the survival of the old pagan religion and , one of its wellsprings , the existence of some form of energy which the ancient people were sensitive to and which they used for healing and in their rituals .
11 The article as a whole is strangely lopsided but seems to follow on from the logic of this position , embodying the agreement made between clergy and politicians towards the end of the nineteenth century outlined in Chapter 3 .
12 I agree Macca seems to step out of the limelight somewhat … but AS LONG AS WE WIN WHO CARES ?
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