Example sentences of "seems [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economic climate now seems to affect art as well as the market : susceptible collectors will jump at Alfred Sisley 's ‘ Rue de village — temps gris ’ ( est. $700–900,000 ; £405–525,000 ) . |
| 2 | Psychosis is when there is , at times , such severe distress that someone seems to lose touch with the familiar world altogether . |
| 3 | ‘ OALD 's reputation passes from one generation of students to the next , and also seems to carry authority in a way its rivals do not , perhaps because of its family resemblance to the Oxford English Dictionary . ’ |
| 4 | Much as technology seems to gather pace with the development of more and more sophisticated equipment so do the methods employed by the many users . |
| 5 | Mr Baker seems to see opting-out as the reinvention of the direct-grant schools , while Mrs Thatcher appears to regard it as analogous to selling off council houses or British Gas … |
| 6 | Factors other than hypergastrinaemia may influence gastric endocrine cell populations , these include age in man and female sex , which , in the rat , seems to promote ECL cell proliferation and carcinoid development . |
| 7 | If New Historicism sometimes seems to fall victim to certain formulas , such as subversion and containment , there are others it challenges . |
| 8 | More than ever , video seems to drive reality in America today . |
| 9 | It seems protecting oil supplies comes a lot higher on the priority list . |
| 10 | But Brad seems to find Deacon 's talent for domestic sabotage endearing . |
| 11 | It seems to accept Saint Monday to the extent of being not only general but a " fixed arrangement " which , added to Sunday , made up a " weekend " . |
| 12 | In York , where the brutalists have not been given their head , only one building seems to attract disgust ; the Stonebow shopping and office scheme . |
| 13 | Our data support the trends , however , reported in smaller studies by Taha et al and Avunduk et al that Helicobacter pylori seems to increase PGE 2 concentrations in the presence of NSAIDs . |
| 14 | The size of the largest known structure in the universe seems to increase hand in hand with the scale of the largest maps . |
| 15 | This pattern of results seems to provide support for interpreting these results in terms of attention focusing . |
| 16 | Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach . |
| 17 | For all of these reasons , it hardly seems to offend rationality to assume that , over millennia or billennia , chimps will evolve to become as intelligent as we are now . |
| 18 | Suddenly everything seems to cause cancer or degenerative heart disease or premature loss of memory . |
| 19 | He seems to view life as more complicated and difficult than it really is , and he has the problem of unending frustration , and trying to control his life , and the Government ( look at that SDP broadcast ) , which he clearly never does . |
| 20 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |
| 21 | The in vivo action of TAGH seems to entail recruitment of similar changes in the EGF receptor to those that occur after partial hepatectomy . |
| 22 | Soler argued that the higher altitude of the Guadix area ( 900–1100m above sea level ) had prevented cuckoos from colonizing it in the past , as the species seems to favour lowland below 500m ( but see ref. 9 ) . |
| 23 | The southern king crab seems to prefer dolphin meat to other kinds of flesh also used for bait , such as sea lion , penguin , fur seals and cormorant . |
| 24 | Again , it seems to help performance to reflect consciously about the higher levels of linguistic organisation — how spoken language can be organised to suit audience , topic and purpose . |
| 25 | The temple at Edfu , which we reached on the morning of the third day , was dedicated to Horus , for this was the spot where he was said to have vanquished Seth , and thus to have established the ascendancy of good over evil , This is never a , convincing concept , and the reliefs display the struggle and its happy outcome with an adamancy that seems to betray doubt . |
| 26 | Petrey seems to equate locution with semantics and illocution with pragmatics , but does not say so explicitly . |
| 27 | But the good news is that moderate alcohol consumption ( up to 2 units a day ) seems to lower blood pressure ! |
| 28 | To the man of reason , that as a physically and mentally distinct person he should look after his own interests seems self-evident like a geometrical axiom , that he should care for others seems to require proof like a theorem . |
| 29 | Signora Neroni is very unusual — she has a husband but is not at his side which seems to suggest independence ; however , she seems to have a need to flirt and have men about her , under her spell . |
| 30 | My hair always seems to look lank and lifeless , even though I make sure that I wash and condition it regularly . |