Example sentences of "seem [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , at the start of a relationship it may not seem relevant to use anything as nothing may happen , so it may not seem worth all that trouble to get the Pill . |
| 2 | Ways of trying to increase your bargaining power include delaying negotiations or confrontation until you are in a stronger position , initiating action in another area which raises the costs to your opponent if he disagrees with your offer , linking the issue under discussion with much wider issues which do not seem of much importance at first sight to your opponent but which may be to his long-term disadvantage but to your long-term advantage which will compensate for your short-term loss . |
| 3 | Marshall do provide , as an optional extra , the MPM 4E footswitch ; this will call up patches 1 to 4 , and although this does n't seem like many sounds , most guitarists would probably find that adequate . |
| 4 | Or perhaps it would only seem like that . |
| 5 | But it does n't seem like that to them at the time . |
| 6 | MH : It may seem like that to you , but is does n't seem so to me ! |
| 7 | ‘ Well , she may seem like that now , ’ said Kraal one evening , ‘ but you wait till the autumn comes and the swifts and swallows start flocking before they begin their winter migration . |
| 8 | ‘ He may seem like that to a stranger . |
| 9 | ‘ It must seem like that , Claudia , and I admit I did n't think about your gown . ’ |
| 10 | It did n't really seem like that at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ It does n't seem like that when he 's here . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It may seem like that to you . ’ |
| 13 | I only wish the box 's artwork did n't make it seem like such a hoot . |
| 14 | We never heard the last from Mum about God 's bounty from the vegetable garden ; it made Dad seem like some kind of honorary clergyman . |
| 15 | So , is n't it rather difficult to adapt to what must seem like some of the trivial aches and pains suffered by his patients in England ? |
| 16 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 17 | To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman . |
| 18 | AT first glance a charge for Environmental Tyre Disposal might seem like another way for garages to deprive motorists of cash . |
| 19 | It would seem from all these experiences that coroners , procurators fiscal and examining magistrates very seldom consider that they have a duty to act in a manner which will assist the aircraft accident investigator . |
| 20 | The chain of volcanoes which girdles the Pacific is known appropriately enough as the ‘ Ring of Fire ’ , and although it 's a much more complex , disjointed affair than it may seem from this brief summary , it is unquestionably one of the Earth 's greatest physical features , and contains a large proportion of all the world 's volcanoes . |
| 21 | It may seem from this book that the British have always been in Madeira in large numbers . |
| 22 | It might seem from this at first that Jude , like James , was Jesus 's brother . |
| 23 | In fact , that situation is even more confusing than it may seem from this account because a third cultural trauma , this time representing the change from cultivation ( of plants ) to herding and pastoralism also occurred and brought with it a great intensification , not of weaning as happened with cultivation , nor of the phallic mutilations which accompanied hunting , but of toilet-training . |
| 24 | It would seem from this that the issue of whether the representation has become a term of the contract can not be avoided , especially if the buyer seeks compensation for loss of profits since expectation damages are linked to breach of contract . |
| 25 | It would seem from these comments that Hitler 's association with the solution of the ‘ Jewish problem ’ was regarded as a highly positive attribute in the eyes of mainly the ‘ politically active ’ part of the population which formed the bulk of the film 's viewers , but that among ‘ ordinary ’ Germans there was also a considerable degree of disinterest in the ‘ Jewish Question , . |
| 26 | Finally , and this is a suggestion on my own , although actually I discovered afterwards it was also made by somebody else , erm but it does seem in many ways er erm an obvious interpretation , is this could be the background also to post-natal depression . |
| 27 | Did n't seem in much of a hurry though did it ? |
| 28 | However absurd these may seem in some respects , we have to read them in the light of the knowledge then available . |
| 29 | Thus , surprising though it may seem in some respects , national courts are required to interpret in the light of Community directives even national legislation enacted before the directive was adopted . |
| 30 | If so , Cnut 's power would seem in some sense to have extended into Wales . |