Example sentences of "seems to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michelangelo 's works have a strong , peculiar and marked character : they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely , and that mind so rich and abundant , that he never needed , or seems to disdain , to look abroad for foreign help . |
| 2 | Ahmed 's revulsion from Jane sometimes seems to be shared by the writer . |
| 3 | The affair seems to him to belong to the town , to have no future , and they are parted when the town comes under fear and hazard . |
| 4 | But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river . |
| 5 | About these matters it seems to me that he writes really well , in a manner that might suggest the intent translation of a Latin author anxious to tell the truth . |
| 6 | How could there be ? the novel seems to be saying . |
| 7 | Poor Charles brings him to life again , however , for some further plagiarisms : a nest of antique-dealers , of antic disposition , in Chatterton 's native Bristol , have passed to Charles a cache of papers which , together with the discovery of what seems to be the portrait of an adult Chatterton , persuades him that the poet lived on . |
| 8 | Beyond this , the use of biography , its actual ability to throw light ( rather than just to be entertaining and nice to have around ) , seems to be a fantasy . |
| 9 | They are two of a kind , it seems to me , authors of a paranoid comedy of the dualistic imagination , while also different . |
| 10 | At the same time , the article is tainted by what seems to be a desire to inflict damage on Levi 's reputation , of a kind which may be thought to serve the ideological tendency of the magazine in which it appeared . |
| 11 | He seems to be talking in a series of jumpy thoughts . |
| 12 | Well , the agents and the casting directors are one thing , then there 's an amorphous list of anyone who seems to be connected with theatre , film and television . |
| 13 | For movement and dance , the Pineapple Studios in the same part of town seems to be one of the best there is , though it is not intended primarily for dancers and actors — people from all sorts of professions come along to keep fit . |
| 14 | No actor seems to be . |
| 15 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 16 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 17 | However , it seems to me that there is something a little perverse in leaving me your notes on the making of the Big Glass when you must have known perfectly well that they contained material I would be certain to find offensive . |
| 18 | How the glass seems to be bringing together so many of my old themes , he wrote . |
| 19 | That seems to be the pattern . |
| 20 | ‘ Now then , now then , ’ Sergeant Bramble spoke in reassuring country tones , ‘ what seems to be the problem ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It seems to me , ’ said Henry Tyler , in the last analysis a Ministry man , ‘ that this stuff , whatever it is , is something that ought to be put a stop to . ’ |
| 22 | And film seems to be an art ’ . |
| 23 | In cases of harassment , the law seems to be very much on the side of the landlord . |
| 24 | ‘ You being poor seems to be the immediate problem . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The system seems to be rather inflexible , ’ she said testily . |
| 26 | ‘ Designer ’ seems to be the buzz adjective of the eighties . |
| 27 | If this does happen , the only solution seems to be to disconnect the instruments and to pump air through the system to blow out the water and dry the tubing . |
| 28 | The ideal seems to be to have a down load on the tow bar of 10–15 kg ( 20–301b ) . |
| 29 | Young and old people may be affected and there seems to be no way of knowing who will have this kind of problem . |
| 30 | Discuss it with other parents or schoolteachers if there seems to be a problem locally . |