Example sentences of "seem to be [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I if I could just come in there you mentioned this er if you changed your mind on goods , and you seemed to be defining the legal position . |
| 2 | When Speelman seemed to be getting the better of it , Timman suddenly sacrificed two pieces to expose his opponent 's king . |
| 3 | The Germans , he reckoned , were trying to wipe out the docks , yet somehow the city centre seemed to be getting the worst of it — and all the shops and offices and streets of little houses . |
| 4 | The agitation mentioned just two months earlier now seemed to be consuming the whole Moslem world . |
| 5 | His objective seemed to be to save the Radical party 's electoral chances by matching promise for promise the prospectus of the rival Justicialist party . |
| 6 | A group of ragged children and some idle women were watching him with amusement rather than disapproval , half applauding him with their cruel laughter , and although one woman boldly cried , ‘ Shame , ’ most seemed to be enjoying the unequal struggle . |
| 7 | There were a few startled shrieks , but for the most part the patrons seemed to be enjoying the sudden element of adventure that had been added to their evening . |
| 8 | At first , no doubt , it was in the nature of an exercise just to see if he could still write : he was working very closely to the structure of " Burnt Norton " and seemed to be using the earlier poem as a model from which to draw inspiration . |
| 9 | The only viable tactic seemed to be to surround the tribal hosts , forcing them to give hostages and cattle in exchange for leniency . |
| 10 | Donald seemed to be describing the bad old days before Mrs Thatcher , as far as Henry could see . |
| 11 | Men like Prior , Gilmour , Pym , Walker , and perhaps Heseltine seemed to be challenging the very premisses of monetarism . |
| 12 | The railway seemed to be continuing the classical tradition of the East India Company capital itself . |
| 13 | Everyone else who was not engaged in either survey data collection or ship handling seemed to be doing the same . |
| 14 | That afternoon there was a voice among us that seemed to be leading the whole thing — anything he say is what we thinking , but before . |
| 15 | One of the most disgraceful international aspects of what is going on in Bosnia is that Western leaders , including our own , seem to be accepting the escalating Serbian brutality , and its consequences of carnage , rape , starvation and terror as if it were inevitable and beyond their combined capacities for effective reaction or remedy . |
| 16 | And tonight , three hours south in San Jos de Penuelas , the seasonal labourers who are talking by candlelight around a table seem to be taking the first steps towards the same kind of self-determination . |
| 17 | ‘ Now they seem to be taking the same supine approach to the milk and potato marketing boards , where the Government is in the process of selling out the interests of farmers . |
| 18 | Quoting Bertrand Russell 's dictum that if you hold unorthodox opinions in England you will be disregarded at first , persecuted if you persist , but finally canonised if you live long enough , he comments : ‘ having experienced the first two stages , I seem to be approaching the third . ’ |
| 19 | Their cars seem to be going the same way , with Daihatsu contriving to build a diesel engine of a mere 993cc for the little Charade four-seater hatchback . |
| 20 | New 8088 based computers have virtually disappeared from the scene , and now 80286 based PCs seem to be going the same way . |
| 21 | In the case of both /Ε/; and /a/ it is the persons for whom the vowel has less significance as a network marker who seem to be leading the linguistic change . |
| 22 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 23 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 24 | In rejecting the " fallacy of objectivity " in stylistics , we may have seemed to be labouring the obvious . |
| 25 | This seems to be pushing the linguistic analogy too far , and to be taking too literally the structuralist tenet that literature is ‘ the essential manifestation ’ of language , and that ‘ the writer does nothing more than read language ’ ( p.84 ) . |
| 26 | When he refers to the ‘ discourse ’ Barthes seems to be evoking the flowing character of the text , suggesting its dynamic , alive nature rather than its stolid , object nature as a text ( e.g. Barthes 1975 : 44 , 51 , 58 , 178 , etc . ) . |
| 27 | ‘ We thought everyone would be against the development , but opinion seems to be moving the other way , mainly thanks to Calder himself . |
| 28 | As we have already said , the practice seems to be to use the Optional Procedure for relatively simple cases , the only known refusal of an Optional Procedure action being an attempt to pursue a claim for asbestosis thereunder . |
| 29 | One faction seems to have abandoned the crude racist message and concentrates on antisemitism , whilst the other seems to be taking the opposite position . |
| 30 | It is this sense which seems to be given the clearest possible confirmation in those moments of the portrait of the artist , where the brooding Stephen , Stephen Daedalus , suddenly emerges from his vigilance in a lightening display of strength . |