Example sentences of "[adv] seem [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite often when a pair have shown all the signs of wanting to breed in the community aquarium and they are then moved into a breeding tank , they suddenly seem to go off the idea , Their new home is strange to them , and the male will want to establish his territory , move the decor , and generally prepare the tank to his satisfaction . |
| 2 | Much seems to depend upon the circumstances of the particular case . |
| 3 | She stared at the people in the pool , who had all seemed to respond to the whistle and were looking at someone who stood at the poolside , someone obscured from Rachel 's vision by the attendant 's tall chair . |
| 4 | That only seems to apply in the Highfields area . |
| 5 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |
| 6 | Circadian ( twenty-four hour ) fluctuations in performance thus seem to combine with the effects of a cumulative sleep loss in a cycle of degradation of efficiency on the night shift . |
| 7 | All the narrow streets eventually seem to lead to the harbour . |
| 8 | Despite their attractive style , Luton always seemed to languish near the bottom . |
| 9 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 10 | I think I need a man older than myself because I always seem to see through the boys I meet . |
| 11 | ‘ Distribution always seems to improve during the Christmas period , ’ he said , ‘ but then we bypass inefficient distributors by going direct to the excellent wholesalers . ’ |
| 12 | Safly and hardle are both in the -ly suffix group ; but the child who misspells safly seems to understand about the suffix -ly and so is potentially a better speller than the one who has n't understood the suffix and produces hardle . |
| 13 | The number of rows that you can tuck for successfully seems to depend upon the design . |
| 14 | And the smell , which at first had been tentative , elusive , no more than an alien tincture on the air , now seemed to seep into the passage with the strong effluvium of death . |
| 15 | Plans for global communications now often seem to rest on the semantics of international standards . |
| 16 | BA 's biggest competition so far seems to come from the Germans , who are already at work refurbishing Moscow 's existing international airport , Sheremtyero . |
| 17 | Thus the principle of indiscernibles now seems to reduce to the thesis that if there were duplicate monads and duplicate worlds , we ourselves , relying on our own cognitive resources , would not be in a position to distinguish them . |
| 18 | Mimesis has been one of the great seminal works for the study of literary style , and on that ground I am discussing it here ; for a number of reasons , however , it now seems to stand on the margins of modern approaches to literature . |
| 19 | Nobody seems to have put astronomy near chemistry ; and the trouble with all series is that progress often seems to happen on the frontiers of sciences that on the philosopher 's map seem as far apart as Finland and Portugal . |
| 20 | Above the Griffon Gate a towering griffon five hundred feet high seemed to leap from the mountain . |
| 21 | In a similar way the Desert Fathers , whose ascetical practices frequently seem to pass into the range of farce , are regarded at least with affection and more often with deep admiration , partly of course because of the delightful anecdotery that has collected around them , and is known to us through the works of writers like Helen Waddell . |
| 22 | The fault or flaw here seems to lie in the woman 's original dissatisfaction . |
| 23 | She turned , then seemed to disappear behind the waterfall . |
| 24 | We keep on reading about these , but they never quite seem to get onto the market . |
| 25 | It is partly cut from the mountain and almost seems to melt into the rock . |
| 26 | All these observations are true , and crucial , but they do not quite seem to get to the root of things . |
| 27 | On either side were slender pine trees , almost seeming to meet over the roadway . |
| 28 | In a matter of seconds , nothing else seemed to matter save the urgency of their need for each other , not even the child they had created . |
| 29 | The Doctor 's voice , which had briefly seemed to come from the air all around , returned to a cheerier norm . |
| 30 | And most of them were blind , even the decent ones , for they never seemed to see below the skin . |