Example sentences of "seem [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hastings ' previous dealings with the Tula tribe would seem rather to diminish the role played by force of personality in this affair , but the traveller and eccentric socialist R.B. Cunninghame Graham , who contributed an introduction to Hastings ' book , did not for that reason forbear to indicate that force of personality was precisely what it showed . |
| 2 | Indeed , one might hope for still more in the way of functional explanation much of the syntactic machinery of a language seems to be concerned with the linear re-organization of material in sentences ( as in passive or topicalized constructions ) , a re-organization which does not seem substantially to affect the ( truth-conditional ) semantic content . |
| 3 | This last headline did not seem fully to express the collective view of the Shadow Cabinet and the next instalments of the Meacher plans for social security never appeared — much to our disappointment . |
| 4 | Why are we putting such huge proportions of our gross national product into schooling when it does n't seem actually to resolve the worst social problems , it does n't seem to erm improve erm greatly the prospects of employment and so on . ’ |
| 5 | If this evidence is taken at face value it would seem spectacularly to support the uncertainty thesis . |