Example sentences of "[pers pn] seems [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However Troilus shows little interest in Cressida once the morning light has revealed her features and their bed ; and she seems to realise this : |
| 2 | She seems to spend all day asleep , I do n't know what she does at night ? |
| 3 | Now she seems to have little pain , and little hunger , although she takes what the boy gives her , and today , we have improved upon that . |
| 4 | She seems to have all the symptoms of an adult-type stiff neck . |
| 5 | ( She always used to , of course , when I was n't here , but she seems to forget that . |
| 6 | Right , the examiners at A Level expect , an A Level student to be able to use the apostrophe reliably and correctly , so let's just erm , go back to basics , with the apostrophe , as it seems to cause more confusion than , practically anything else . |
| 7 | It seems to need some attention . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Not really because it seems to do any good but just because the thinking is that it 's better for him than other commercial products , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 9 | It seems to allow that , although we must begin and end with appearances , we might find it possible and advantageous in doing so to interpose conjectures about their hidden causes . |
| 10 | I also like the area because of its prehistoric relics , abundance of wildflowers and , on a more mundane level , because in my experience it seems to get more than its fair share of decent weather . |
| 11 | But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ? |
| 12 | Having looked at the draft Memorandum to the Presidency I can only say it seems to cover most of the key points . |
| 13 | It seems to speak this most loudly to those supporters of Protestant prophecy and millenarianism , those who were , like the Ranters , among the most radical supporters of the revolution . |
| 14 | This would seem to run counter to the idea that receptor activation initiates a cascade of diverging biochemical pathways that conspire to produce an effect ( cell division , in this case ) ; and it seems to require that multiple kinases phosphorylate a small number of substrates , which , in turn , feed signals into a smaller number of Ras activators . |
| 15 | For example , it would appear that substituting in a simple formula expressed in words is too difficult for lower attainers , although superficially it seems to require little more than following simple instructions . |
| 16 | It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context . |
| 17 | The point about [ 20 ] is that it seems to achieve most of its relevance through this range of weak implicatures . |
| 18 | My practice has not encountered serious practical problems different from those of other fundholders and it seems to remove some of the difficulties of the existing scheme in that it resolves the problem of what referrals are within the range of services that can be purchased . |
| 19 | Often a change of publisher does wonders for an author , but it seems to make little difference to this man 's sales . |
| 20 | I 'm particularly interested in the shipping side because it seems to provide most of the group 's cash flow at the moment . " |
| 21 | It seems to work that way . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't spend to much time on it unless it seems to have more relevanace to the case . |
| 23 | It seems to offer some promise of being both well-founded and contentful . |
| 24 | It seems to meet some deep need to atone for modern materialism , by saving some of the materials from the rubbish bin . |
| 25 | Unfortunately the Muddletonians erm seems to contradict the point I 'm wanting to make , because erm frankly it seems to belong more to the world of historical novels . |
| 26 | Not while the old man was here anyway , and he seems to spend most of his time sitting on the wall doing nothing in particular . ’ |
| 27 | He seems to spend most of his day doing little other than occasionally walking to the pub ( usually in the middle of a row ) where he can spend up to 3 hours . |
| 28 | He seems to spend most of his day doing little other than occasionally walking to the pub ( usually in the middle of a row ) where he can spend up to 3 hours . |
| 29 | He seems to spend most of his spare time keeping an eye on your house . ’ |
| 30 | He seems to say that Tory councils equal good , Labour councils equal bad . |