Example sentences of "[noun sg] seems [prep] [num ord] " 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 | This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure . |
| 3 | The function of early Anglo-Saxon pottery seems at first glance to be obvious . |
| 4 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |