Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paxton 's remarks in the above passage seem to support this supposition . |
| 2 | The findings from the sentence completion study seem to support this argument , in that performance was better on item ( 1 ) than on item ( 2 ) , and performance on item ( 2 ) was better than on ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 3 | The pain of the body and the greatness of the soul are equally balanced throughout the composition of the figure and seem to cancel each other out . |
| 4 | Simple answers like this seem to delight younger kids , who demand a reason for everything . |
| 5 | Most writings seem to agree that leadership vision , or ‘ visioning ’ , as the process has sometimes been called , can be broken down into three distinct stages : ( 1 ) the envisioning of ‘ an image of a desired future organizational state ’ ( Bass , 1987 : 51 ) which ( 2 ) when effectively articulated and communicated to followers ( Bennis and Nanus , 1985 ; Tichy and Devanna , 1986 ; Gluck , 1984 ) serves ( 3 ) to empower those followers so that they can enact the vision ( Sashkin , 1987 ; Srivastva , 1983 ; Conger and Kanungo , 1987 ; Robbins and Duncan , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Local studies , too , seem to confirm this finding . |
| 7 | The figures in the table above seem to confirm this point of view . |
| 8 | Some areas of study are so hard of definition that they seem to evade all attempts to summarise them . |
| 9 | In this matter , I seem to miss those issues to which you contribute articles : I have not seen one for many months now . |
| 10 | Even when applied to the novel , as in Leavis 's writings on novelists or Lodge 's own early critical book , Language of Fiction , the New Criticism looked for passages of quasi-authorial description , or the exploration of consciousnesses that seem to carry authorial support . |
| 11 | Nor does cran — seem to carry any meaning into newly coined forms : we can make sense , for instance , of billy-giraffe and nanny-giraffe by analogy with billy-goat and nanny-goat , and also of foot the fees ; but creations like cranbeads and bilbeads convey nothing , although one might have expected some interpretation such as ‘ small round red beads ’ and ‘ small round purple beads ’ . |
| 12 | Anglers always seem to carry large amounts of equipment . |
| 13 | Now they seem to lose all interest . |
| 14 | Paradoxically , both dominant and subordinate seem to sustain each other in a reciprocal fashion . |
| 15 | Erm , you seem to like modern furniture |
| 16 | " She and Mrs Mott seem to like each other . " |
| 17 | If you have players who are obsessed with mapping detail , they will have a very tough time inside the Castle , but in describing the outside of it , when their characters seem to see slight differences each time they look at the buildings , add the disorientating detail that the characters can not remember exactly what the Castle looked like at any time prior to the present moment . |
| 18 | Often , too , they seem to see social influences as qualifying and controlling a biologically given potential . |
| 19 | W we still seem to debate certain things three , four and five times they creep their way through to the main committee and full council and I have to say that the point in para B about the report we 've been sent not recognising the reduction in local er government responsibilities it it is it 's a bit rich , because our response to that report does n't recognise that when I first arrived here Chairman we had the education department which was responsible for all the schools , six colleges of further education , college of art , college of agriculture , the teacher training college at and a major polytechnic . |
| 20 | We have already suggested that theories of motivation seem to indicate that money is only one of many factors that have a bearing upon motivation and morale . |
| 21 | At first sight , the data in table 6.4 seem to indicate that decision-making is roughly balanced . |
| 22 | A number of articles I have read all seem to indicate that rail freight will decline , for example the report that French Railways might sue for damages because of loss of freight revenue ( The Times , 30 Jan . ) . |
| 23 | Mintzberg , who studied five chief executives in the USA and reviewed previous research , gives the best account of the importance of informal information and argues that : the manager 's advantage lies , not in the documented information that is widely available , and which takes time to process , but in the current non-documented information transmitted largely by word of mouth … managers seem to indicate strong preference for current information , much of which is necessarily unsubstantiated ( gossip ) , and for information on events rather than trends … |
| 24 | These results seem to indicate some consistency in the relation between birth weight and lung function , but there is less consensus concerning the relation between birth weight and respiratory symptoms . |
| 25 | Some of them hardly seem to know one end of a horse from another . |
| 26 | The most visible and vocal theorists have high energy and intelligence ; they also seem to find imaginative writing rather boring before it is processed into theory . |
| 27 | The emerging treaty proposals on economic and monetary union seem to meet British requirements in full , but I will address some of the critical issues . |
| 28 | With regard to methodology , audio-lingual techniques ( A-LM ) seem to meet this situation as they provide plenty of opportunity for the student to use foreign language responses in the classroom situation and to receive the reinforcement of acceptance and comprehension . |
| 29 | Although biofeedback and hypnotism seem to benefit some patients , such services are not often readily available . |
| 30 | A few of the more peculiar large meteorites also seem to contain cosmic dust . |