Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] seem [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from wanting students to challenge and think about the important issues that affect patients and the community , the course tutors simply seemed to want compliant students who would not answer back . |
| 2 | A few of the more peculiar large meteorites also seem to contain cosmic dust . |
| 3 | Viruses often seem to enter bacterial cells by a completely different process in which the viral protein remains on the outside of the bacterial membrane while the genetic material is ‘ injected ’ into the cell . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , as soon as we begin to probe beneath the surface of the contemporary debate , political concerns sometimes seem to outweigh educational ones . |
| 5 | At ward level , managerial changes often seem to have little impact or significance on clinical practice , and experience suggests many nurses are unaware of or uninterested in the implications of such reforms . |
| 6 | Supermarkets themselves say they 're catering for increasing customer demand , customers too seem to reinforce that attitude . |
| 7 | As regards size , to come to the second point , the Government amendments still seem to contemplate that sixteen should be the norm er but in practice , I would expect a great many exceptions to be made where for example there are number of constituent authorities er as in Greater Manchester er where there 's er a combination of urban areas and large rural areas , or where the authority tends to function through a lot of sub-committees each of which have to be manned as in Greater Man as in Merseyside . |
| 8 | The French and Spanish critics rarely seem to have firm convictions about matters of performance practice ( although they usually feel strongly about the character and quality of the performance ) , and we may suppose that they would regard such convictions as an impediment to the essentially journalistic nature of their enterprise . |
| 9 | Many economists are inclined to think that static welfare losses are outweighed by dynamic welfare gains from technological progress , and policy-makers generally seem to share this presumption . |
| 10 | She says girls nowadays seem to want mixed education . |
| 11 | Though theoretically useful to library planners and funding authorities , standards rarely seem to have much influence upon events , which are determined by political factors or chance . |
| 12 | In many important ways , men still seem to have great advantages over women . |
| 13 | Anglers always seem to carry large amounts of equipment . |
| 14 | Horses always seem to prefer good green pasture to hay , and it is in fact higher in vitamins and protein than all hays except for lucerne . |
| 15 | Boys also seem to suffer more than girls when family discord and family disruption occur . |
| 16 | Exercise based rehabilitation programmes therefore seem to have some prognostic value , perhaps in part due to risk factor modification , increased patient surveillance , and exercise training . |