Example sentences of "they seem [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These words recur so often in Wordsworth 's work that they seem to represent an unwavering core of faith . |
| 2 | But the danger in some ‘ deconstructionist ’ theories , however , is that they seem to leave no space for the material struggles or ordinary aspirations of women . |
| 3 | They seem to let the soul of the other person — or the animal — communicate by the way it expresses itself , in the look and in the bearing , in the tone and in the voice . |
| 4 | If they seem to cause no problems , you can include them in the child 's diet . |
| 5 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ They seem to like the taste of rubber . |
| 7 | But above all they seem to like an eyrie just beneath the eaves of the barn roof . |
| 8 | These suggestions may be considered dated in that they seem to presuppose a somewhat static teaching situation with pupils amenable to being told where to sit , rather than the modern classroom with its active learning , and mobile , enquiring pupils . |
| 9 | They seem to set the tone . ’ |
| 10 | When the two subsections are juxtaposed , however , they seem to create a difficulty . |
| 11 | They seem to lead a totally charmed life , the family : ‘ I do inspire envy , ’ says Pat , with resignation . |
| 12 | In part they seem to be societal — you score no points if you ditch your spouse — but largely they seem to concern the very basic matter of pair-bonding . |
| 13 | Even affable John , one of nature 's gentlemen , can only take so much and has now stopped being polite because when the police recognize him , as they do , they seem to take a particular delight in grilling someone famous . |
| 14 | They seem to take the level from the amps without breaking up or sounding too middley . |
| 15 | But they seem to carry the implication that society exists as a fixed structure , with slots into which school-leavers ( or university-leavers ) must be fitted . |
| 16 | A Yes , they seem to form a pattern of defiance . |
| 17 | It is an indication of the anachronism of Chesney Wold that , until the final pages of the novel , it is accessible to casual visitors — sometimes very casual , for they seem to form a category much less exclusive than Jane Austen 's . |
| 18 | They seem to ignore the caves in their tank and they lie on the open gravel at night . |
| 19 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 20 | They seem to involve a highly personal spiritual search for an idyllic free space for women which is ultimately compromised by latent elements of patriarchal oppression of women . |
| 21 | Montag is astonished by the off-hand way in which they seem to regard the case . |
| 22 | With a paucity of effects they seem to piece the cool of a Julian Cope/Teardrops sensitivity with a certain vigour that only us young ones can adopt . |
| 23 | They seem to run the gamut from what you might call the ‘ tabloid television ’ of Top of the Pops and The Hit Man and Her , via the ‘ serious ’ ‘ quality ’ programmes like Rock Steady or Big World Café , to the more lefty ‘ alternative ’ programmes , of which The Tube was the prototype , like Channel 4 's Club X . |
| 24 | They seem to find the sexual promenading of the warriors amusing . |
| 25 | When his characters make love — or perform Mr. Lawrence 's equivalent for love-making — and they do nothing else — they not only lose all the amenities , refinements and graces which many centuries have built up in order to make love-making tolerable ; they seem to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution , passing backward beyond ape and fish to some hideous coitus of protoplasm . |
| 26 | In it he described how , if chicks are trained on the passive avoidance task and immediately afterwards given a mild electric shock across their heads , they seem to forget the association of taste and bead , for when offered a bead later they peck at it enthusiastically once more . |
| 27 | In fact , they seem to get a good price for their equity , because they only sell when they sense that investors feel lucky . |
| 28 | I mean there have been the usual number of pollution incidents and they seem to increase every year , er and a lot of those to deal with er as you say , I think one of the things which is , which is good is that public consciousness has been raised and people are much more aware of what they drink and what 's in their rivers . |
| 29 | Conversely we are not sensitised to the possibility of sociocultural differences between the sexes , because they seem to share a culture and a history in common , living as they do in close proximity . |
| 30 | They seem to have no colour , although yesterday afternoon 's image is still strong — the canyon glowing deep red in reflected light from the walls , the interior an inferno in the midday sun . |