Example sentences of "[noun] seems [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that after four long , very long , years , a little light seems at last to be discernible through the gloom . |
| 2 | In those families with a clear genetic link hypertrophic cardiomyopathy seems in many to be inherited as a dominant gene with a high degree of penetrance . |
| 3 | If filmed destruction to draw attention to expendability seems to hard to bear , there was one other radical solution canvassed at Eindhoven and that was terminal neglect . |
| 4 | Since then the condition of housing in rural areas seems on average to have reached a higher standard than that in many urban areas , even where renovation or renewal policies have been conducted . |
| 5 | Whether these analysts commit or escape the individualistic fallacy is of little consequence because an exclusively therapeutic orientation has meant that the cultural , phylogenetic dimension of Freud 's work seems of little relevance to them . |
| 6 | To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles . |
| 7 | At the age of 63 , Friedman seems in better technical shape than ever , and to many of the younger members of his substantial audience , these performances must have come as a revelation . |
| 8 | Body seems in fair condition , own hair , not thinning . |
| 9 | However , there has been much change in the importance of individual waters , and the present concentration at Chichester and Rye seems of recent origin . |
| 10 | The poem ‘ Futility ’ by Wilfred Owen seems at first glance to be simple and relatively straightforward , but , as with many of Owen 's poems , it is well structured and very clever . |
| 11 | This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure . |
| 12 | This might occur for example where an elderly person seems to those around to be failing to cope in daily life , and the situation has to be explored . |
| 13 | For the abrupt , hasty manner of Pound 's criticism seems to some readers to carry the implication ( to which Pound in fact did not subscribe ) that no critic is worth listening to unless he has laboured at the maker 's workbench ; that all worthwhile criticism of stories comes from story-tellers , that only poets are worth listening to about poems . |
| 14 | The function of early Anglo-Saxon pottery seems at first glance to be obvious . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , there is a risk that the insurer ought to anticipate if the case seems at all likely to throw up difficulties in relation to quantification of future loss . |
| 16 | Newton seems at that time to have accepted a variant of the ethereal vortices that Descartes had set rotating around the Sun to carry the Earth and the planets in orbital motion . |
| 17 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 18 | Even as recession seems at last to be easing , the strains that recession has helped to create between booksellers and publishers were brought quickly to the fore at the Booksellers Association annual conference in Torquay this week . |
| 19 | Resentments may persist between members of staff who belonged to different unions , and in particular the goodwill between headteacher and staff seems in some places to have been almost irreparably damaged . |
| 20 | Trade theory seems of little help , for the advances in recent years of understanding how trade might affect national welfare are offset by limits to the theories in their capacity to yield policy advice that can work in practice ( see , for example , Baldwin , 1988 ; Helpman and Krugman , 1989 ) . |
| 21 | Freud 's theory seems from this perspective to need firmer grounding in time and space . |
| 22 | The volume seems about right but the shape is quite wrong . |
| 23 | In modern life astrology seems in any case to have taken over from dream interpretation as the soothsayer 's preferred technique . |
| 24 | Mary seems at first sight to have carried still further the process of reversion : ‘ numbers cause great confusion , ’ remarked Count Feria , Charles V 's ambassador . |
| 25 | As a result , as Hobsbawm points out , Marx seems to half suggest the existence of yet another mode of production — the Slavonic . |
| 26 | ( It is interesting , however , that the tsar seems at first to have intended to give the college some jurisdiction over aspects of Russia 's internal administration ; and for a considerable time it did in fact handle quasi-internal issues such as relations with the Kalmuck tribes and with the Cossack hetman in the Ukraine . |
| 27 | The wealth of feminist literature which theorises violence in society seems of little interest to either the police or the popular press . |
| 28 | Grappelli 's swinging , fluid style seems at first to be leaving his young guitar/bass duo behind , however well before half-distance they are fully warmed-up ( say by Just one of those things ) and thenceforth come into their own with sympathetic accompaniment and youthful aplomb . |
| 29 | In comparison with the BCG matrix , the McKinsey-GE matrix seems at first to be less explicit about building some ‘ problem children ’ into ‘ stars ’ and identifying ‘ cash cows ’ and ‘ dogs ’ , but the implications are present , as indicated by figure 4.3 . |
| 30 | If Engles 's book seems in many important ways to follow the lead of Marx 's later works there are also some differences . |