Example sentences of "[noun sg] seem [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevalent analyses of causation seem justifiably only to allow events and possibly agents as causes . |
| 2 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 3 | The victors and villains in this war seem once again to have the outside powers where they most like them : stuck deep and quarrelling among themselves about what to do next . |
| 4 | The Countess of Huntingdon 's Methodist Connexion , founded in the mid-18th century , was yet another Calvinistic organisation , we may note with interest ; what with Robert Titford being baptised at one of their chapels , and his sister Elizabeth having been registered with the Zion congregation in Frome , Calvinism seems once again to have cast its shadow across the family , even into the 19th century . |
| 5 | The area of the theory to which this criticism seems most obviously to apply , and the context in which it has been most discussed , is Poulantzas ' account of the defining characteristics of classes . |
| 6 | Greg had seen the posters around for some days , and on the evening before opening day he made it his business to pass by the warehouse and go in , for he was a paid-up member of the club , and lit seemed easy enough to fake a mistake about the members ' viewing day . |
| 7 | From this time onward , a kind of oscillating magnetism seemed ever more to bind the three brothers of Trazior , attracting each to one , and one to each , yet also — as well — repelling each in a bizarre negative of friendship . |
| 8 | Seen against that double undermining , reason seems no longer to offer its traditional security . |