Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] in the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicolo 's words seemed to hang in the silence that suddenly enveloped the room . |
| 2 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 3 | Maturity , at least for me , seems to lie in the discovery that happiness and circumstances do n't have all that much to do with each other ; that happiness is more a matter of choice and habit than we suppose , and less dependent upon the accident of circumstances . |
| 4 | Again , the answer seems to lie in the way that the reformulation draws the hearer 's attention to the differences between just being gone and having vanished . |
| 5 | The solution seems to lie in the fact that the amounts which later become due ( interest ) are consequent on the debt that is being released . |
| 6 | Its attraction would seem to lie in the fact that it gives a formalized account of some of the popularly held impressions concerning the character of science , its explanatory and predictive power , its objectivity and its superior reliability compared with other forms of knowledge . |