Example sentences of "seems [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I like , usually I like three out of the four and then nobody seems to like the fourth |
| 2 | That 's what It seems that you do n't It seems to affect the immediate folk and not many other folks nowadays . |
| 3 | The more so at Augusta , the arrival of which each year seems to signal the happy end of winter hibernation . |
| 4 | Th th the trouble is the government seems to go the other way , and er , when when it should be learning my opinion , lowering the age at which you receive your pension , they want to extend the age into which you have to work . |
| 5 | Also , the drug seems to inhibit the viral DNA polymerase enzyme much more effectively than it does the DNA polymerase used by the cell to copy its own DNA . |
| 6 | He seems to treat the whole incident almost like a scientific experiment , albeit a deadly serious one , with great precision and planning and a kind of coldness . |
| 7 | ’ Typically , Morrissey seems to cherish the very constraints and despondency of a now disappearing England , fetishize the lost limits . |
| 8 | However , the key distinctions between quality-of-working-life techniques of the 1960s and 1970s , and the high-performance approach of the 1980s and 1990s , seems to include the following : The early quality-of-working-life techniques did not substantially increase worker control and have been criticized for making only cosmetic alterations to the experience of work , increasing discretion in superficial ways at best . |
| 9 | Today , if we pose the difficult question of the relation of poststructuralism to postmodernism , one distinction between them that might be drawn would be that whereas postmodernism seems to include the problematic of the place of Western culture in relation to non-Western cultures , poststructuralism as a category seems not to imply such a perspective . |
| 10 | It only seems to include the experimental model drawn from the natural sciences . |
| 11 | Largely as a result of Wedd 's enthusiasm , I found myself becoming irresistibly attracted to the Scots pine — the solitary tree as well as the clump — not just as a potential ley mark point , but as something in its own right , I was not alone : legend seems to confirm the special nature of the pine . |
| 12 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 13 | Unlike grommets , adenoidectomy seems to modify the underlying pathophysiology of chronic otitis media with effusion — making it our initial surgical procedure of choice in cases of severe , persistent effusion . |
| 14 | The idea of the super-ego seems to encompass the Christian concept of the conscience , and describes those moments when we feel restrained in our actions ( ‘ I am letting myself down ’ or ‘ I am letting my ideal person down ’ kinds of feelings ) . |
| 15 | Just try and remember what we were doing but the pig about resistance is it 's one over and think ooh we 're all into weird fractions and everything seems to work the opposite way round to the way you 'd expect it . |
| 16 | Even though he may pay lip service to the idea that there are probably many breaks not yet discovered , nevertheless almost every geologist seems to accept the above doctrine , albeit subconsciously . |
| 17 | Its beating a path to Hewlett-Packard Co 's door seems to indicate the final demise of Intel 's 80860 as a mainstream system-level CPU . |
| 18 | Policy-making in this area is deliberately pluralist , mopping up political energies , providing a reassuring appearance of controversy and popular influence , and sustaining a needs-orientated ideology which seems to indicate the social neutrality of state policy . |
| 19 | There is thus a gap between rapid acquisition of complex and highly abstract knowledge by individuals with very limited cognitive resources and the degenerate information , in the form of spoken language , which seems to provide the only source of information the child has to work on . |
| 20 | In other words , the intervention of consciousness in either a developed form ( Wigner 's friend ) or at a more rudimentary level ( Schrödinger 's cat ) seems to provide the latest link in the chain at which the matter could be settled . |
| 21 | I suspect it is no accident the politics of the times seems to parallel the growing toughness of the police image , or that the police have taken on an increasing resemblance to the black-clothed enemies of goodness who sprinkle the popular science fantasy films such as Star Wars , Superman , and the like . |
| 22 | The adopted position seems to reflect the current situation in countries such as France and Germany . |
| 23 | He copes well in situations involving Lennie and invariably seems to pick the best of a bad lot of consequences . |
| 24 | Astral travel seems to mimic the sudden disappearance of Philip after baptising the Ethiopian eunuch and his reappearance at Azotus ( Acts 8:39,40 ) . |
| 25 | Wright was absent on Saturday , but Souness now seems to prefer the central defensive pairing of Steve Nicol and Torben Piechnik . |
| 26 | This kind of no-strings-attached use of sex seems to combine the best of both worlds , leaving a woman free to pursue her career and a man unshackled by the commitments of a heavy mortgage and all the other responsibilities that go with a family . |
| 27 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 28 | They do n't think it 's what they call ‘ right ’ for women to do jobs like castrations , and it seems to embarrass the poor dears to talk of putting heifers to the bull and dealing with calving cases , or to discuss the sexual behaviour of their animals . ’ |
| 29 | Editor , — Robert Bluglass seems to bypass the essential problem in community care of mentally ill people — namely , chronic schizophrenia in which insight is lost . |
| 30 | The argument as I have presented it seems to require the first reading of this crucial sentence ; on the second reading we get , not a regress of justification , but a demonstration of justification which is only successful in certain conditions . |