Example sentences of "seem to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to understand that there are two different ways of approaching this question , one being to consider what the speaker does in producing stressed syllables and the other being to consider what characteristics of sound make a syllable seem to a listener to be stressed . |
| 2 | Peter Rogers knew he had hit a gold mine , even if it did n't always seem to the performers that he was totally on their side . |
| 3 | Allowing that , being feelings , they are , more accurately speaking , in my mind , this use of ‘ perceive ’ , though to us a rather strained one , must seem to the Cartesian to be the paradigm for philosophically responsible talk of what it is to perceive something . |
| 4 | So essential did this communication seem to the West Midlands survey respondents , that the repetition that it would inevitably entail for the manager , as different volunteers come in each day , still seemed worth the effort . |
| 5 | As we have seen in this chapter , however , the newcomers , no matter how monolithic and undifferentiated they may seem to the locals , are composed of a number of identifiably separate urban middle-class groups — commuters , weekend cottagers , holiday-home dwellers , retired couples — among whom the village may vary considerably as a centre of their social activities . |
| 6 | It can hold couples together in a way that may seem to the outsider against all reason . |