Example sentences of "[noun pl] seem [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lower , parochial clergy seem often to have had wives and children ; but the ladies and children of the close , of whom Heloise herself had been one , become a thing of the past . |
| 2 | ( Visits seem only to take place at the stage of formulating proposals . ) |
| 3 | The fruits seem almost to jump into his hands and mouth , just dying to serve mankind , and , as with Marlowe , there is no sign of work to be seen behind this fertility . |
| 4 | In Calcutta the railway companies seem almost to have been overawed by the classical splendour of the Viceroy s palace and the great secretariat buildings dating from the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 5 | The intervals seem proportionately to increase . |
| 6 | Jefferson is one of those people upon whom Church youth groups seem often to depend . |
| 7 | It might also be argued that the treatment of language in terms of sentences has been quite successful in revealing how language works , that within the sentence we can establish rules and constraints concerning what is and is not allowed , whereas beyond the sentence , such rules seem either to disintegrate or turn into rules of a different kind — social rules or psychological rules , which are not within the area of linguistic study at all . |
| 8 | After many years when some ensembles seemed hesitant to apply them to appropriate passages of slow and moderate conjunct movement , thus depriving such movements of the vitality their composers surely intended , some performers seem now to apply inequality at all tempos , including the recklessly fast . |
| 9 | The trademarks seem increasingly to wear the player . |
| 10 | Fairs and fights seem always to go hand in hand . |
| 11 | Continuous re-assessment and new modifications and calculations seem never to have conveyed complete confidence , even to Teller . |
| 12 | Other than at Oxford and Cambridge , educational buildings seem generally to have become disappointing . |
| 13 | Aside from a passing interest in the impact of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme on future tax burdens , economists seem generally to have ignored the issues of elderly people and of ageing . |
| 14 | In fact and in fiction , not only in the Regency but in the eighteenth century as well , the upper classes seem rarely to have ventured beneath an impoverished roof , much less imagined what it would be like to live beneath one . |
| 15 | And her shrunk features seem again to live ; |
| 16 | This explains , says the professor , why all Archer 's characters seem never to have been through the growing-up process . |
| 17 | Opposition Members seem constantly to forget that parents , not teachers , are the primary educators of children . |
| 18 | Territorial boundaries seem also to have been tacitly adhered to , and it was usual , especially in London , for funeral furnishers to limit their operations to the confines of the parish in which they were situated , and though many of the late eighteenth-century trade cards include the words ‘ Funerals performed to all parts of Great Britain' , it is doubtful that this offer was ever taken up . |
| 19 | There are , however , instances where parish boundaries seem clearly to pre-date Roman roads . |
| 20 | But that is the position which some of the Government 's critics seem now to occupy . |
| 21 | But that is the position which some of the Government 's critics seem now to occupy . |
| 22 | The Americans seem now to have taken this aboard . |
| 23 | The figures of the Levites seem consistently to have collected an extra nought . |
| 24 | Other attempts to restrict preferences of voters seem equally to have had limited success . |
| 25 | The two men seem genuinely to like one another . |
| 26 | How well these grants reflect the amount of exchange activity in the landscape is not clear , since some grants seem never to have been taken up and others clearly did not persist . |
| 27 | Many of the same factors seem also to have occurred in the childhood histories of adults developing different disorders , suggesting that , as illustrated by Figure 3.1 ( page 36 ) , in different combinations the same factors may play an aetiological role in different disorders . |
| 28 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 29 | Yorkshire pitmen seem usually to have worked eight hours and sometimes only six . |
| 30 | Others seem increasingly to have thronged the court hoping to have a chance of pressing their suit upon the Queen or a courtier . |