Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also liked Rufus 's occasional sensitivity , which did n't seem to go with the other aspects of his personality . |
| 2 | The Touchmaster does n't seem to suffer from the major problem faced by its nearest equivalent , the Koala-pad in this respect . |
| 3 | SMALL businesses do not seem to know about the industrial building allowances introduced last November , and the uptake has been very disappointing , David Wilson , chairman of Wilson Bowden , the Midlands house-builder and developer , said yesterday . |
| 4 | If it is to be regarded as a genuine composition from the court of Cadwallon , it would seem to belong to the very eve of Hatfield . |
| 5 | There can be an oblique or " dog-leg " approach in which the short-term objective may not seem to fit with the long-term objective . |
| 6 | Without engaging in the details of this debate , and having presented what is an admittedly brief over-simplification of Bernstein 's work , I would nevertheless venture to say that the different response patterns of working-class and middle-class women in the present sample do seem to fit into the broad outlines of Bernstein 's scheme . |
| 7 | After Tomkins had served the second glass , Robins looked at me almost quizzically , and said , ‘ I 've seen a few doctors come and go in the islands , but you do n't seem to fit into the usual pattern . ’ |
| 8 | So far , however , this link does not seem to apply to the mitochondrial genome and available data do not suggest that green algal and plant mtDNAs share a common ancestor . |
| 9 | This would seem to accord with the dissenting judgment of Lord Denning MR in Re King , Robinson v Gray [ 1963 ] Ch 459 where the majority of the Court of Appeal decided that a tenant who had insured in the joint names of the landlord and tenant should be entitled to the whole of the proceeds . |
| 10 | The water area itself should also seem to merge with the surrounding garden . |
| 11 | The date of construction of the wall , which has not been established with any precision , would seem to lie in the third century . |
| 12 | The basis of these unities does not seem to lie within the nervous system as it is currently conceived . |
| 13 | It would seem to follow from the proposed provision that he would certainly not be guilty unless the woman had a reasonable fear of immediate harm . |
| 14 | The authors claim that ‘ traditional acupuncture points ’ were used , and the hand point does seem to correspond to the Chinese acupuncture point Hegu ( LI4 ) . |