Example sentences of "seems [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DESPITE mounting general election fever political awareness seems to remain at a low ebb in Darlington . |
| 2 | This single example shows how powerful the ideal of collectivism can appear , as it seems to connect in a very real way with commonsense ideas , in this case about Japan as a classless society . |
| 3 | These flashbacks to his past in Texas show him making love to a girl whose family seems to object to him , then ( in an obliquely filmed sequence ) he is gang-raped by a group of yobs . |
| 4 | Jameson seems to object to the fall of modernism and the decline of a critical aesthetic , and fails to learn from the quite genuine failure of modernism itself with regard to its popular acceptability . |
| 5 | Schnitke 's language seems to lunge from outburst to tranquil apology for his own excesses — simple , melodic threads he untangles from demonic cackle and sheer noise . |
| 6 | with imitative activity filling the gap until the child is able to participate meaningfully as a partner in home-centred behaviours , the definition of this aspect of the female sex role [ the domestic one ] seems to proceed without interruption and with continuous reinforcement from the cradle on . |
| 7 | Since methylation of Dcm seems to proceed through binding of SAM to the active site ( see above ) it seemed plausible that this reaction may be stimulated by the presence of DNA . |
| 8 | In this light , all discourse seems to proceed like a dialogue , even if the other voice is only present as a ghost . |
| 9 | But Foucault 's formulation of the ‘ repressive hypothesis ’ seems to slide between the two usages . |
| 10 | She seems to thrive on heretical statements and swimming against the tide : ‘ I look at what the cosmetic trade is doing and walk in the opposite direction , ’ she declares with the kind of outspoken defiance that has made her a retailing legend in the decade it took her to turn The Body Shop into a worldwide phenomenon . |
| 11 | Filho , like Osmiro and many Brazilians , fits several marathons into the year and seems to thrive on it , contrary to we Brits who counsel caution . |
| 12 | Although still classified as a rare breed , the British White has increased considerably in numbers in recent years and has also been exported : it seems to thrive in hot climates and has a good degree of heat tolerance , helped by its pigmented skin and reflecting white coat . |
| 13 | MARK JAMES , the 39-year-old Ryder Cup player who seems to thrive in tournaments on exotic islands , yesterday moved into a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Tenerife Open . |
| 14 | The destruction of the oaks has a poignancy for her that seems to go beyond the aesthetic . |
| 15 | This quality of suffering seems to go beyond any classification of appropriateness or inappropriateness . |
| 16 | Waldock , for example , considered that the ‘ general duty ’ upon States to respect the operation of treaties between other States , ‘ even when limited to treaties not impairing their rights or imposing disabilities upon them seems to go beyond the existing law ’ . |
| 17 | I barely hold back a hurrah , but can not stop myself from doing a backwards roll during which everything seems to go into slomo and clarify like a TV closeup : my backward roll begins , the picture outside the window slowly slips downward . |
| 18 | Well this one seems to go to bed a bit later now , so she goes longer , but she 's feeding all day today , , I 'm at every couple of hours , so with a bit of luck , I 'll finally put her to bed maybe half past nine ten o'clock , she might go through till three or four , which is n't bad . |
| 19 | It 's the mice everyone seems to go for , I mean the children . ’ |
| 20 | He seems to go for plain , quiet women . ’ |
| 21 | In the play , such is the force of the opinion against her that one wonders at her resolution , which increasingly seems to go against common sense , decency , and even the fundamental duties of a parent . |
| 22 | It seems to go against common-sense notions that individuals would want to hide any misdemeanours or crimes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | erm , erm feel like they 're getting the benefit again , again and again , you now make the costs of at every point they take another , they 've got more coming in , erm in terms of cash and er at every point I seem to loose , I loose the first case in ninety one and everything now seems to go against me , it seems as though I do n't stand a chance any more . |
| 25 | She says , ‘ Anything to do with knitting seems to go in my head and stay , buy anything to do with cooking and cleaning goes straight through and out the other side ! ’ |
| 26 | Whatever he tells me seems to go in one ear and out the other . |
| 27 | On the rivers , the fishing seems to go in cycles . |
| 28 | The circulation was a new record and four hundred and eighty five thousand , nine hundred by year end and it just seems to go from strength to strength . |
| 29 | With the aid of a small capital thus amassed , he became first a pedlar in Lincolnshire , then a traveller — but it seems to sit on the surface of his story that the motive for his wider travels was not so much the search for gain as the love of travel itself , and the urge to pilgrimage . |
| 30 | Both in popular accounts and in much social science literature , the image of a peaceful society seems to carry with it a number of associated conceptions : co-operation , communalism , absence of self-interest , and so on . |