Example sentences of "[noun pl] seem [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of owners have noticed , to their dismay , that their feline pets seem to have a passion for drinking from puddles and pools of water in the garden . |
| 2 | Secondary schools seem to find the prospect of having to produce a report most threatening ( least , primary ) , with the greatest degree of uncertainty as to the stage reached in presentation : a quarter of secondary school teachers were unsure whether their school report had yet been submitted to the LEA whilst only 5 per cent of middle school teachers and no primary school teachers were unsure about this . |
| 3 | These foxes seem to have no instinct to hunt and have little fear of man . |
| 4 | In 1993 , the year that brings an open market to Europe , the European nations seem to take a similar view of Britain , regarding it as a strange and ultimately negligible country . |
| 5 | As Durkheim and others have tried to demonstrate , these relationships seem to have an independent existence over and above the individuals who compose them . |
| 6 | The IMF 's new country weights seem to suggest a GDP of almost $1,000 billion for China in 1992 ( $1,700 per head ) . |
| 7 | The itching , which is worse at night , particularly affects areas where the shin is loose , and the armpits , lower abdomen , buttocks , and thighs seem to suffer the most . |
| 8 | It 's the English that vote Thatcher into power again and again and the Scots seem to take the brunt of it . |
| 9 | The remedies seem to have the power to help harmonize the body 's metabolic processes and to correct imbalances in them . |
| 10 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 11 | ‘ We all know that XR3s and Cossies seem to attract a lot of unwanted attention , but I feel I 'm paying too much insurance on what is a Plain Jane family saloon , ’ he says . |
| 12 | ‘ In fact , you 'll soon find out that three square meals a day is hardly scratching the surface — most kids seem to have an ever-open stomach . ’ |
| 13 | His English was nae good , I 'm thinking , he didnae seem to understand a word I said . ’ |
| 14 | As she silently squirms , I would swear her purpling head is expanding ; dumbly , her eyes seem to bugle the pressure within . |
| 15 | The problem is that welfare pluralists seem to overestimate the capacity of the state to regulate the slice of the welfare market the commercial sector takes … |
| 16 | For most quantities , baby universes seem to introduce a definite , although fairly small , amount of uncertainty in the predicted values . |
| 17 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 18 | ‘ Why is it that pansies seem to run the best restaurants ? ’ |
| 19 | Two particular functions seem to suit the informal interview . |
| 20 | Maintenance labour cost vary somewhat around NZ , just as they do here , but against the UK 's average hourly £15 to £25 or so for single-engine aircraft , NZ engineers seem to charge the equivalent of £12 to £15 on average . |
| 21 | The three offences seem to provide a ‘ ladder ’ but , once again , the distinctions between them vary considerably , with section 23 being more concerned about the result than about D's fault . |
| 22 | Some of the four million annual visitors seem to find the mere ascent insufficiently fulfilling . |
| 23 | Outside of their own milieu , Arabs seem to have a penchant for choosing the hustler as confidant , or the shyster as business companion . |
| 24 | As Einstein says , ‘ The singers seem to snatch the single words from one another 's mouths ’ . |
| 25 | On the whole , algebraists seem to have a slight preference for the latter whilst analysts tend to prefer the former , perhaps because of tradition . |
| 26 | The courts seem to take the view that the minimum mark-up is usually in the region of 50 per cent of the hourly rate , and can rise in personal injury cases to 75 per cent in a very big , difficult case , and could go up as far as 100 per cent or more for cases of the greatest difficulty or where quantum is huge and complex . |
| 27 | All Nettwork artists seem to take the idea of ‘ sparse ’ to new and distant boundaries , but David has replaced those bleeps with a mutant robot voice ordering some lucky conscripts to report to the floor . |
| 28 | EC countries now accept that energy efficiency improvements seem to offer the most promising single policy tool for CO2 reductions . |
| 29 | Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such |
| 30 | ‘ Since most experts seem to preclude a major upturn in energy prices before the end of the century , we may have to develop a combination of policies and taxes to stimulate the market for improvements in efficiency now as insurance against disruptions from climate change later . ’ |