Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although sentences of the type illustrated by 1 and 2 occur sporadically throughout the data , a number of lexical and syntactic constraints seem to inhibit the co-occurrence of a singular verb with a plural subject . |
| 2 | Our two dogs — Sombro , a black Labrador cross , and Picosso , a white Boxer — also seem to enjoy the easy come easy go existence . |
| 3 | Our girlfriends seem to enjoy the charade , at least to begin with ; they are flirtatious and collusive . |
| 4 | These recently published analyses of the likely impact of the Tunnel seem to confirm the notion that infrastructure improvements do not , of themselves , have much effect outside their immediate locality . |
| 5 | More experiments follow , all , we will suppose , impeccably designed , and the results seem to confirm the persistence of this accuracy order across a wide range of experimental conditions . |
| 6 | The data in Table 14 , which classify percentages of pregnancies that ended in still births by length of preceding pregnancy interval pooled according to country of study , seem to confirm the validity of the Hungarian findings for developing countries . |
| 7 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
| 8 | It 's so successful that many people seem to miss the point . |
| 9 | But they seem to carry the implication that society exists as a fixed structure , with slots into which school-leavers ( or university-leavers ) must be fitted . |
| 10 | But you seem to lose the tan very quickly once you are back at work . |
| 11 | Sum up what the customer has said , ‘ You seem to like the enamel pans best . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ People seem to like the vintage vibe the 555 has . |
| 13 | No matter how much writers protest , non-writers seem to like the idea that writing is easy , not the arduous manual , emotional and intellectual labour writers know it to be . |
| 14 | Now men seem to like the look of long , lean , coltish women and it 's probably inevitable , given our fixation with diet and fitness . |
| 15 | ‘ They seem to like the taste of rubber . |
| 16 | Students , who face paying rent at around £55 a week in the private sector , seem to like the idea . |
| 17 | I do n't know if the ranger 's put any seed down or what , but they all seem to like , they all seem to like the smells round here |
| 18 | How does the height of land seem to affect the choice of areas for wheat ? |
| 19 | How do rainfall and the height of land seem to affect the choice of areas where farmers grow grass ? |
| 20 | Fitzgerald and Sim seem to see the existence of secrecy as a ‘ crisis ’ in itself . |
| 21 | Like the Roman of old , he observed : ‘ I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood . ’ |
| 22 | I take two examples which I find seem to embrace the fateful aspects of my life in the Service . |
| 23 | Despite its popularity , few people seem to know the origin of the term . |
| 24 | Other people say things of this kind enviously , and even unkindly — novelists seem to attract the envy and unkindness of other people ( though so little enviable ) ; it is a pity they are not nicer to one another . |
| 25 | They are a wonderful bunch of men Who seem to find the hard physical work involved therapeutic . |
| 26 | We 're referring mainly to the 500ft or 150 metre brigade who seem to find the cost of a reel prohibitive . |
| 27 | They seem to find the sexual promenading of the warriors amusing . |
| 28 | Secondary schools seem to find the prospect of having to produce a report most threatening ( least , primary ) , with the greatest degree of uncertainty as to the stage reached in presentation : a quarter of secondary school teachers were unsure whether their school report had yet been submitted to the LEA whilst only 5 per cent of middle school teachers and no primary school teachers were unsure about this . |
| 29 | Some of the four million annual visitors seem to find the mere ascent insufficiently fulfilling . |
| 30 | Sometimes they even seem to provoke the trigger actions deliberately . |