Example sentences of "seems [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Maria only seems to get married for the sake of being free . |
| 2 | Currently , the balance of power over these decisions seems to have swung in the artist 's favour . |
| 3 | But will they be able to break the marriage curse that seems to have fallen on the House of Windsor ? |
| 4 | As she seems to have stayed on the island for only three weeks , however , being moved back to Stirling when the English army left Scotland at the end of September , we can only conclude that these are testimony not to Mary as an infant prodigy , but to her fascination as a source of romance and legend . |
| 5 | Subsidy ‘ in a party interest — and particularly by parties — seems to have stopped by the outbreak of World War 2 ’ . |
| 6 | The main thrust of colonial development seems to have followed in the wake of this major rebuilding programme , in the period between 1650 and 1500 BC . |
| 7 | Team meetings and management reviews have already become a way of life and a new breath of fresh air seems to have blown through the company . |
| 8 | Total output seems to have increased in the course of the reign ; the issuing of a larger proportion of half-pennies after 864 implies a growing demand for a smaller denomination of coin , usable for smaller transactions . |
| 9 | Mel Pyatt , the Volvo spokesman said : ‘ It is all very sad ; loyalty seems to have gone by the board . |
| 10 | At Theodore 's urging in 686 , Aldfrith also made an attempt to resolve the outstanding quarrel with Wilfrid and Theodore certainly seems to have prevailed on the king to restore Wilfrid first of all to Hexham ( during a vacancy there , Eata having died , though in 687 John of Beverley , a monk of Whitby , was appointed bishop ) ; then to York ( from which see Bosa , who was still alive in 704 ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 54 ) , was removed ) and Ripon ( from where Eadhaed was also removed ) ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 44 ) . |
| 11 | Subsequently Sidonius seems to have retired from the limelight until the fall of Majorian , and the elevation of Anthemius , for whose first consulship in 468 he also delivered a panegyric . |
| 12 | North wanted the Monimbo seized or sunk ; Poindexter wanted ‘ measures taken to make sure ship does not arrive in Nicaragua ’ ; McFarlane seems to have choked over the legality of piracy , and the ship and the rifles got through . |
| 13 | It seems to have arisen from the report of Levy-Agresti and Sperry ( 1968 ) that in a visuo-tactile matching task the two hemispheres of split-brain patients solved the problems in characteristically different ways . |
| 14 | The author seems to have wandered towards the edge of the plot and fallen overboard himself ; one misses the satisfying smack of resolution . |
| 15 | It is nice to follow the first Conservative Back-Bench Member who seems to have looked at the Bill without blinkers . |
| 16 | Although the name Savoy later developed out of Sapaudia , the area in question seems to have lain to the north of Geneva . |
| 17 | Garway 's learning and his frugality were widely admired , and he seems to have demanded of the government the same standards . |
| 18 | The development of agronomic research into soil conserving practices also ( in four cases where the search discovered projects with this component ) seems to have occurred at the research station , and on the land of a handful of farmers . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , the major infiltration seems to have occurred in the course of the fifteenth century : the Signet Office had a predominantly lay staff from 1437 , the Exchequer from 1500 , if not before . ’ |
| 20 | One of the most remarkable events recorded in the geological record is the major nuclear explosion that seems to have occurred in the vicinity of the Oklo uranium mine in Gabon some 1800 million years ago . |
| 21 | The worst period of their poverty and exploitation in the United States seems to have occurred after the end of our period . |
| 22 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 23 | He seems to have got over the shock pretty quickly . ’ |
| 24 | Finally , the government seems to have got into the habit of treating the Assemblée Nationale with some contempt . |
| 25 | A month ago I did n't give him a dog 's chance , but a funny thing seems to have happened on the way to X-ray . ’ |
| 26 | Something of the kind seems to have happened in the case of the European communist parties ; thus Santiago Carrillo ( 1977 ) , in the passage quoted earlier , says plainly that ‘ the political system established in Western Europe … is in essentials valid ’ , and this is far removed from the outlook of some earlier Marxists — and of the members of a few left-wing groupuscules even today — who talk about ‘ smashing the bourgeois state ’ . |
| 27 | It is an unstructured corpus of independent observations which rarely go beyond what seems to have happened in the past . |
| 28 | In some set-piece frescoes , life-sized figures of men , bulls , and griffins were moulded in low relief ; this seems to have happened in the period 1550–1470 BC , but not later . |
| 29 | To regain the importance of Victorian values , which seems to have slipped off the agenda for most major parties , we will reinstate hedgerows and forested areas in accordance with the Ordnance Survey map of 1848 . |
| 30 | The idea of the Section d'Or seems to have originated in the course of conversations between Gleizes , Metzinger and Jacques Villon at Puteaux and Courbevoie . |