Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stewart 's departure , after an incident that left Paul Roberts holding his face , did not seem to affect Spurs unduly . |
| 2 | But Horsley did not seem to see things like that , and he had cheered them up mightily with a little speech congratulating them all and insisting ‘ the team ’ must stay together . |
| 3 | At first sight , man-made artefacts like computers and cars will seem to provide exceptions . |
| 4 | Poorer working-class groups do not seem to perceive lawyers as providing a service for them . |
| 5 | Although the Act ( sec. 25 , 1944 Education Act ) would seem to give parents and pupils the right to practise a religion other than that ( Christianity ) , in general there is little or no provision made in school for any kind of peripatetic Muslim teacher to give lessons in Islam . |
| 6 | here they do n't seem to keep horses/mules/donkeys , but one sees water-buffalo ponderously and patiently pulling ploughs through the ooze of the paddy-fields . |
| 7 | Sadly , population planners and contraceptive manufacturers do not seem to share women 's concerns . |
| 8 | I think there 's something that we have n't discussed , and that 's that , doctors do n't seem to prescribe tranquillizers to men , it 's women , and they do wrongly prescribe them to women . |
| 9 | ‘ This would seem to clear matters up , ’ said the coroner ; ‘ we will adjourn until tomorrow when I will sum up . ’ |
| 10 | The story is much the same in all four cities : social conservatives trying to push their ideas through school boards , parents frustrated that schools have fancy ideas but do n't seem to teach children to figure , write or read . |
| 11 | Such stories would also seem to offer girls fewer opportunities for association and empathy with the characters in a novel , with negative implications , according to Squire for the development of their literary judgment . |
| 12 | I know jackets protect your arms from thorns and falls but you do n't seem to get brambles or stony ground in show rings . |
| 13 | People who as babies were handled with love and delight , whose perfect little bodies were so much admired , and who did not acquire ‘ hang-ups ’ from later unfortunate experiences , do not seem to have problems with sexual intercourse . |
| 14 | She also remembers her own answer ( we do seem to have words to remember ) , ‘ The world , mama , will say what you tell it ; it always has . ’ |
| 15 | Most animals today do seem to have bodies that accord well with the functions they have to carry out to survive : flyers are aerodynamically efficient , active swimmers have suitable streamlining , herbivorous mammals have teeth appropriate for grinding plant food , and so on . |
| 16 | This result would seem to have implications for clinical practice . |
| 17 | Perhaps there is scope here for future study , since notating our movement consistently and comprehensibly does seem to present difficulties . |
| 18 | I think what they mean is that they appear so intent on their work that they do n't seem to notice onlookers . |
| 19 | I now have a hell of a lot more time for people but at the same time I do n't seem to tolerate fools as well as I used to . |
| 20 | In such cases , we do indeed seem to take decisions and choices as having required conditions . |
| 21 | It is a pity that Britain , now supposed to be a fully paid-up part of Europe , can not seem to produce auteurs of anything like this calibre . |