Example sentences of "[adj] seem to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed to be developing into a regular pattern in his dealings with Emily . |
| 2 | This seemed to be confirmed when in October 1951 Egypt unilaterally repudiated the 1936 treaty with Britain . |
| 3 | There had always been a possibility that the telephone call had been a hoax and this seemed to be getting more likely all the time . |
| 4 | This seemed to be falling on deaf ears . |
| 5 | For me , this seemed to be symbolised in the living room of a teenage parent living in one of Coventry 's worst housing estates . |
| 6 | Dean Rusk complained that the British seemed to be making the solution of " any specific problem " dependent upon " the solution of many others " . |
| 7 | I left school in 1942 and got a job at the airport , which at the times we were living in always something exciting seemed to be happening . |
| 8 | This seems to be caused by a powerful muscular spasm in the vagina that locks the erect penis fast and bonds the amorous couple like Siamese twins . |
| 9 | On the basis of the present study , this seems to be caused by two factors . |
| 10 | Safety legislation requires the disclosure of hazardous contents but this seems to be ignored as well . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | This seems to be related to certain features of Japanese lifestyle and working practices , such as shared decision-making , group affiliations , corporate identity , group counselling , etc . |
| 13 | While this seems to be reading more into Quinn 's analysis than is justified , work by Mintzberg ( 1978 ) , Miller and Friesen ( 1982 ) , and Pettigrew ( 1985a , 1985b ) , supports the notion of incrementalism , but in a form of uneven development with long-term gradual change punctuated by bursts of ‘ revolutionary ’ change which may be due to the economic environment , management change or other factors usually , but not necessarily , associated with commercial crisis . |
| 14 | This seems to be pitching things a good deal too high , but the current London Film Festival , which continues until Sunday , tends to confirm the impression that 1989 has been a less than vintage year for the movies . |
| 15 | But this seems to be bowing to convention . |
| 16 | The treatments should be complimentary , laser treatment to give rapid relief of troublesome discharge and obstructive symptoms and radiotherapy to attack the entire tumour bulk , and this seems to be confirmed . |
| 17 | erm so that 's quite helpful , also I believe that er the actual cost of this seems to be servicing met by the |
| 18 | This seems to be carrying things a little too far . |
| 19 | This seems to be attributed to the mechanisation of mankind which he visualises . |
| 20 | Certainly headteachers in schools not included in the project entertained doubts about the openness and justice of the procedures employed , and this seems to be linked to their ignorance of the principles and processes of the project . |
| 21 | This seems to be associated with the development of lipoproteic particles and the resultant material , unlike the ordinary hyphae , are edible . |
| 22 | Often this seems to be taken to unnecessary lengths , since there are relatively few instances where seeing the book helps a selection decision , and even fewer where it is significant . |
| 23 | Thus if the air-hostess announces ( 50 ) You are to fasten your seat-belts now she is the speaker or spokesman , but not the source of the instructions , and this seems to be encoded in the use of the infinitive form . |
| 24 | Of the previously described POU genes only oct-1 seems to be expressed in most tissues . |
| 25 | That seemed to be causing |
| 26 | Small e.p.s.ps were evoked by bipolar wire electrodes placed in the stratum radiatum , with the stimulus strength adjusted to give the smallest e.p.s.p. that seemed to be evoked reliably . |
| 27 | Britain , along with Denmark and Norway , as well as Ireland ( which was not a member of EFTA ) , had lodged applications to join the EEC , and their initial negotiations with the Six seemed to be progressing satisfactorily . |
| 28 | Nothing much seemed to be happening . |
| 29 | From inside , he could keep an eye on his own house where nothing much seemed to be happening . |
| 30 | Editor , — Stephen Brearley 's editorial agreeing with the Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee 's recommendations to increase annual intake of medical students by almost 500 a year and to increase total numbers of NHS doctors by 1000 a year ( 1% ) to 112000 by 2010 seem to be based on no reliable evidence . |