Example sentences of "it seems [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point it parodies Richardson , at another it seems to realize the ambition to compose a satirical work called The Marylandiad of Ebenezer Cook , the author of another of Barth 's proto-texts , the poem ‘ The Sot-Weed Factor ’ . |
| 2 | But because the conception of the Certificate did not originate within the recognized schools examination boards , indeed had nothing to do with the DES , it is now thought of as suitable more for further education than for schools , and it seems to invoke all over again the old distinction between ‘ education ’ and ‘ training ’ . |
| 3 | The precise meaning of this formulation is unclear — does it mean ‘ lose self-control and kill ’ , or ‘ lose self-control and kill in the way D did ’ — but it seems to derive from the notion that there are degrees of loss of self-control . |
| 4 | It seems to open up all the disturbing conflicts and inconsistencies which have been at the heart of their problems . |
| 5 | We are offering the experience of a lifetime , and it seems to appeal to people from all over the world . |
| 6 | It seems to inhibit the attention that can be paid to the needs and natures of different young people living in different communities . |
| 7 | Or a great space hulk might be reported drifting in the void or in the warp , harbouring suspected pirates or , worse , those fierce cunning invasive Genestealers which could infest a human world just as termites infest a house — so that it seems to remain firm timber until it crumbles apart . |
| 8 | It seems to remain unduly descriptive and obsessed with detailed case studies . |
| 9 | and it seems to carry on up the stairs |
| 10 | When it is not expelled it seems to backfill so the tubes get coated in thick white mucus . |
| 11 | It seems to arouse expectations they ca n't meet , it makes demands on their freedom , they want life to be simpler . |
| 12 | In fact it seems to talk about almost every kind of animal there is apart from the bee , and , for someone like myself , a total newcomer to Islam , this is , I have to say in all honesty , deeply confusing . |
| 13 | It seems to relieve wind and discomfort gently and soothingly without any stress on the baby . |
| 14 | It seems to hang threateningly over the village , with massive detached boulders of slate ready to topple if you put a foot wrong , and great heaps of rubble lie where they were detached from the rock face by gunpowder , which was also made in the vicinity . |
| 15 | It seems to go against common-sense notions that individuals would want to hide any misdemeanours or crimes . |
| 16 | But that 's as far as it seems to go . |
| 17 | Although it seems to go against the ‘ golden rule ’ of covering an honour with an honour in this situation it ca n't be right . |
| 18 | It 's of course only to be expected that people should moan about the tax they 've got to pay and people always complain that it seems to go up every year . |
| 19 | Can I just say colleagues before you , you second the motion , there is this hubbub again that 's growing , I mean it seems to go down and I do n't know perhaps it 's like the tide but can we try and keep it a bit lower , especially when colleagues are trying to make a speech from the rostrum . |
| 20 | It seems knew the previous owner who had adapted his mother 's former whole house . |
| 21 | When the duties involve Irene Charial , it seems to take a little longer . ’ |
| 22 | Subscribers may have noticed the scepticism with which we have tended to greet analysts ' forecasts for IBM Corp 's earnings , and invariably their forecasts have proved too optimistic — but it seems to take time for the true awfulness of the situation to sink in with them . |
| 23 | And it is you know it seems to take up quite a bit of time for members of staff and we do as many as we can but sometimes we have to say sorry we we ca n't do any more this week . |
| 24 | This , of course , changes our perception of it , and it seems to take on characteristics such as ‘ temperamental ’ , ‘ dangerous when roused ’ , ‘ difficult to control ’ , and so on . |
| 25 | It seems to take ages to get them back from the printers . |
| 26 | There are so many sick in the village , February is a wicked month , and it seems to take me all my time to get round the cottages and then when I am back , I am extremely tired and I fear I 'm not as patient as I should be , poor little creatures and the baby still in his petticoats . |
| 27 | ‘ No — it 's just Christmas — a family get-together , you know — it seems to take more out of me than it used to — so I thought I 'd come and have a quiet minute or two with you . |
| 28 | So these people are important to you , so it 's vitally important that you do n't let them down , because initially this business has a strange effect on you in as much as it seems to take over your mind , does n't it ? |
| 29 | The paint , so thick in places that it seems to exist independent of the canvas , becomes an integral part of this annual cycle . |
| 30 | It is a natural barrier , not unlike the man-made Iron Curtain or the Berlin Wall ; but it seems to divide men as fiercely . |