Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] seem [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On its face , the literal rule seems to forbid this common sense approach to statutory interpretation . |
| 2 | The Iraqi coup seemed to confirm all the Foreign Office 's worst fears about Nasser becoming the Hitler of the Middle East . |
| 3 | Thus , if the historical evidence seems to suggest that meat merged with mate , this can not be a valid interpretation according to this principle , because if it had happened then both meat and mate would subsequently have been eligible for merger with meet : speakers would not have known the difference . |
| 4 | It 's puzzling that the British public seems to share this feeling of worship for Russian dancers , yet does n't extend anything like the same respect to its own . |
| 5 | Social class seems to make little difference . |
| 6 | Ordinary experience seems to indicate that brain position determines experience content : where my head is ( in space and in time ) is the most important determinant of the content of my consciousness . |
| 7 | Never mind the narrow life that he had been born into ; his tiny presence seemed to make all the suffering and pain his birth had caused worthwhile . |
| 8 | Maybe the reason why it 's been so successful in Japan is because the Japanese mind seems to think that way . |
| 9 | But the strength and resilience of those fascist societies , none of which fell because of internal collapse , and their replacement after 1945 by liberal democratic capitalism seemed to refute such interpretations . |
| 10 | Both acute and chronic pancreatitis seemed to cause less need for a stay in hospital in Finnish women than in Finnish men . |
| 11 | Phenylalanine control in early childhood seemed to play little part . |
| 12 | The ever-familiar profile seems to derive more than a smidgeon of alternative inspiration from Aria 's Magna-series , as in fact does the whole bass . |
| 13 | One incredible sensation seemed to pursue another through her consciousness . |
| 14 | The little minx seems to have half the young men in London at her feet . |
| 15 | Reported opioid misuse seems to reflect this trend . |
| 16 | The poor dog seemed to know all about it , for in fear and trembling he waited behind his master , hanging his tail most ignobly . |
| 17 | But when the inner world is frightened of commitment for one reason or another , the external legal authority seems to accentuate that fear , raising feelings of being trapped . |
| 18 | The provision of factual information seems to alleviate some of the initial anxiety on immediate arrival at the ward and many hospitals send to those who are being admitted from the waiting list , some type of preparatory material ranging from a leaflet to an illustrated brochure , the latter in particular for children . |
| 19 | Apart from the face that consideration of scenic impact seems to carry little weight in the decision making process , there is another distressing angle to these applications . |
| 20 | Paxton 's remarks in the above passage seem to support this supposition . |
| 21 | The archaeological record seemed to confirm this , for there was a singular dearth of substantial finds or evidence of major structures in most English towns , including London . |
| 22 | Positivist criminology seemed to represent another example of the misuse of technology — in this case in its application to human beings themselves . |
| 23 | This socio-demographic complexity seems to foreshadow that of man . |
| 24 | Ohmann 's detransforming technique seems to provide some linguistic basis for the idea of stylistic " neutrality " mentioned in 1 3.1 . |
| 25 | The attractiveness of thermally stable structures for buildings that are in a day-long , year-round use seemed to influence most of the submissions . |
| 26 | In January 1989 the Brazilian government seemed to acknowledge this . |
| 27 | Many astronomers have thought that these very distant and powerful sources are simply quasars that we see at a special angle , but the new statistical analysis seems to rule this out . |
| 28 | Common justice seems to require that tax to be repaid , unless special circumstances or some principle of policy require otherwise ; prima facie , the taxpayer should be entitled to repayment as of right . |
| 29 | NOT since 1822 , when a Scottish adventurer called Gregor MacGregor sold £200,000-worth of bonds for the kingdom of Poyais , has a financial instrument seemed to offer such low risk and easy reward . |
| 30 | The skilled sportsman seems to have more time and to do things more slowly than the less skilled one . |