Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experiment that Dr Himes and Dr Jelley seem to acknowledge as a potential make-or-break is one being planned by another Oxford physicist , David Wark , who will use a particularly well-understood and trusted magnetic spectrometer at Britain 's national physical laboratory . |
| 2 | Their similarity to the preceding cases is that they seem to fall within an accepted canon of traditional wordings ( one , incidentally , which as Ulpian shows is also subject to extension by analogy ) . |
| 3 | Some run across the moor , apparently randomly , but in fact outlining large areas which seem to relate to the major river valleys . |
| 4 | Things do , of course , indeed they seem to succumb to The Second Law of Thermodynamics at a rate that must occasionally surprise even the most paranoid of entropy theorists . |
| 5 | " You never seem to appear in the same gown twice running . |
| 6 | Ice creams and lollies seem to benefit from the sharp wit of its frosting . |
| 7 | Similarly , it is often the case that senior officials within the civil service all seem to come from the same sort of background . |
| 8 | Mozart 's work is exquisitely crafted : the instruments seem to engage in a continuous dialogue by turns thoughtful and considered , passionately enraptured ( as in the hauntingly beautiful C minor slow movement ) , and — in the rondo finale — playful , each soloist spurring the other on to more daring feats of imitation . |
| 9 | Fundamentally however , all objects such as ‘ chapters ’ , ‘ sections ’ , ‘ entries ’ , ‘ acts ’ and ‘ scenes ’ , ‘ cantos ’ etc. seem to behave in the same way : they are incomplete in themselves , and often nest hierarchically . |
| 10 | Case 2b — where none of the candidate words seem to fit with the syntactic processing of the sentence . |
| 11 | I might then ask him to look at his hands and see whether they are those of someone who does manual work or whether they seem to belong to a well-to-do person . |
| 12 | Every other group produces more sophisticated results than yours , your own results seem to vanish in the general feedback , and to cap it all she then shows you work which is more sophisticated than any of yours , probably containing a result which is on the A level further mathematics syllabus , and declares that it is work from mixed-ability 13 year olds ! |
| 13 | We seem to specialize in the following areas : paperwork , gerontology , maladies of the central nervous system , and what they call talkdown . |
| 14 | Two broad groups seem to emerge from the known evidence ( fig. 8 ) , each with a different level of impact on the defended area itself and on the extra-mural suburbs . |
| 15 | Moreover the provisions of section 2(1) ( a ) also seem to point in the same direction . |
| 16 | After joining , the Liberals and even the Labour supporters seem to drift into the Conservative way of thinking . |
| 17 | Maiolica made in Renaissance Italy was also tin-glazed and painted with such vibrant colours that the ceramics seem to glow with a Mediterranean light . |
| 18 | The great achievements of the seventeenth century seem to testify to a new independence of scientific inquiry . |
| 19 | ‘ With the 715 , ’ John reflects , ‘ Trace have gone for volume in a small box , with no hook-up opportunities — these seem to start on the next model up . |
| 20 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 21 | Even for a practitioner who does not claim to own such expertise , it is important to consider the extent to which items seem to call upon the linguistic abilities at which the test is directed . |
| 22 | And I especially seem to care about the sick ones . |
| 23 | Few academic historians seem to care about the literary elegance that sustains the essay form . |
| 24 | Since school texts so frequently seem to depend upon the received knowledge of at least one intellectual generation before them , children will be condemned for some time to reading about the exploits of men . |
| 25 | Moreover , mutation rates seem to change with the physiological state of the organism . |
| 26 | For example , they seem to survive on a few hours ' sleep ; they will report waking and getting up early ( often to the annoyance of their families ) ; sporting activities include frenetic games ( squash ) and/or strenuous single person sports ( running , swimming ) . |
| 27 | Definitions of torsades de pointes and longQT interval syndromes Torsades de pointes is a ventricular tachycardia characterised by QRS complexes of progressively changing amplitude and contour that seem to revolve around the isoelectric line . |
| 28 | Jordanova suggests that the search to define femininity by recourse to anatomy was a search for aesthetic and moral ideals at the same time ; she says of these models , ‘ The figures of recumbent women seem to convey for the first time the sexual potential of medical anatomy . ’ |
| 29 | A striking feature of the campaign is the firm grasp voters seem to have of the main issues , and the shrewdness and acumen they show in arguing not only for one side or the other but for all sides at once . |
| 30 | Like writing , paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which , so to speak , time 's arrow moves the other way . |