Example sentences of "seems to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I mean , I wrote down here what tone of voice — English obsession with newspaper class , which is what I was talking about format which you covered , and I said that I felt that in the States that seems to an outsider only the New York Times , but even that sort of , as you say , covers a whole range of non-quality , from a British point of view non-quality , press . |
| 2 | So far , it seems to the Palestinians that the US listens less to the ‘ moderates ’ of both sides than it does to Israel 's still very powerful , if increasingly defensive , champions , the Jewish lobby , its knee-jerk supporters in the Congress and the media , who are still ready to parrot the Israeli ‘ extremist ’ line that Arafat is , indeed , still Arafat . |
| 3 | It therefore seems to the logical residents of our borough that there was a swing in Southend from the Liberal Democrats to both Conservative and to Labour . |
| 4 | Intuitively , it seems to the authors that ( 9 ) would lead more readily to continuations in which Mary and John are referred to by they or them than would be the case with ( 10 ) . |
| 5 | Scientists have rather a bad press in these lists , as well as tending to drag down the market value of their places of study , or so it seems to the editors . |
| 6 | There seems to the writer little doubt that unemployment due to automation will grow steadily over the next few decades , perhaps centuries , and in the end it is likely to reach a very high figure , say ninety per cent of the labour force , unless radical changes are made in the present pattern of working . |
| 7 | With legs stretched out and with no space to flex a muscle — or so it seems to the beginner — a sneeze might unbalance the boat . |
| 8 | The more difficult case is when theory suggests that a relationship should exist that seems to the researcher to be present in the data , but on a statistical level the relationship is not confirmed . |
| 9 | What seems to the individual to be a free and spontaneous response can be seen from " outside " to be the product of social and ideological conditioning , or even in some instances of a concerted campaign to mould public opinion in such a way as to produce exactly the response which each individual feels and believes to be authentically his or hers alone . |
| 10 | It seems absurd , but it also seems to the law , that a recklessly-made false statement that free insurance will be given with every motor cycle purchased is caught by section 14 ( since it relates to the provision of a ‘ service ’ ) whereas the section does not catch a false statement that a free helmet will be given , Kinchin v. Ashton Park Scooters Ltd. ( 1984 D.C. ) . |
| 11 | It seems to the Senior Management Team that the personal objectives of individual members of the department and institutional and departmental objectives are very largely congruent and that our recommendations are a way of achieving , we hope , both . |
| 12 | Could I also say one thing finally , and that is the fact that we 've tried to run together the alteration and the greenbelt local plan as concurrently er as possible , er it would appear that the timing erm is coming together reasonably satisfactorily erm in that we hope that the report from the greenbelt local plan enquiry , is not to er far distant , erm and we would expect , sir , that you will be reporting on the proceedings at this examination in public er in the not to distant future , well I think I did give an undertaking at the greenbelt local plan enquiry that the County Council , because the two are er interrelated to a degree , that I would expect the County Council would not wish to pursue either report er until er the other er is available , and that seems to the County Council to be entirely sensible , that the two reports , the structure plan alteration and the greenbelt local plan enquiry , erm should be looked at together . |
| 13 | However , it seems to the author that the concept must not be taken too far . |
| 14 | This contrasts with Chapter III where the charge will arise under Case VI of Schedule D. That being so it seems to the author that one must apply the appropriate Case to the particular income — Schedule A , etc . |
| 15 | The words " in relation to " referred to in the third limb do not appear in the section but it seems to the author that the reference to " any benefit to him by contract or otherwise " must relate in some way to the gifted property , and a conclusion along those lines seems to have been drawn in some of the old estate duty cases ( see Chick v Commissioners of Stamp Duties [ 1958 ] AC 435 at 447 ) . |
| 16 | Here the lines of the paintings , it seems to the listener , are reflected in her music for she is a linear composer . |
| 17 | It is so cleverly written that it is impossible to put into my words , everything inside the plot seems to the reader to be perfect . |
| 18 | and as for fortune and as for pain I never invited them in though it seems to the world they were all I desired . |