Example sentences of "seems [to-vb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , whatever else it may be , Lighthouses is a cornucopia of virtuoso orchestral effects , a continuously shifting , shimmering kaleidoscope of sonority by a composer who seems to know just about every effect in the book , plus many he 's discovered for himself , and who knows just how to use them . |
| 2 | In Porter , an Australian ex-patriate who knows more about European culture than almost anyone , the old creative-writing nag about ‘ No ideas but in things ’ becomes ‘ No things but in ideas ’ — in The Chair of Babel ( Oxford , £6.99 ) it seems to work just as well . |
| 3 | There 's no string tree on the Classic S , since the string posts are staggered — not staggered individually , like Sperzels , but in a ‘ three high , three low ’ formation , which seems to work just as well . |
| 4 | Now a Greek team , headed by Professor Cesar Alexopoulos , of Athens University , has developed a technique which seems to provide just that much warning — at least for earthquakes that have hit Greece repeatedly over the past two years . |
| 5 | ‘ Why , ’ exclaimed Carol , ‘ it seems to do just as I wish ! ’ |
| 6 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 7 | David Speedy 's goal for Leicester in the first half and with the wind behind Nottingham Forest now ironically is often happens in these cases it seems to have just calmed a little . |
| 8 | He seems to have just as strong a case . |
| 9 | But in ( 5 ) there is no " and then " sense ; and here seems to mean just what the standard truth table for & would have it mean — namely that the whole is true just in case both conjuncts are true ; hence the reversal of the conjuncts in ( 7 ) does not affect the conceptual import at all . |