Example sentences of "this seems [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late tenth century Sigeric archbishop of Canterbury went to Rome to receive his scarf of office , the pallium of lambs ' wool which was the mark of an archbishop ; and this seems at that time to have been an immemorial custom of very recent origin . |
| 2 | This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true . |
| 3 | However , this seems to be a red herring , since the standard Buck topology uses a pair of inductors ( though not coupled ) and a single transistor switch just as the Cuk topology does , but need no other energy coupling device . |
| 4 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |
| 5 | This seems to be intimately connected with another principle , which is more radical and therefore more important : that of quantity , of syllables as being , in relation to their contiguous syllables , either long or short . |
| 6 | This seems to be the view of Lord Donaldson , that truly sagacious Master of the Rolls , who has just called for a new corps of paralegal ‘ civil justices ’ to get people like me off the hook . |
| 7 | ( Research has suggested that this seems to be the case in many US and UK companies ) . |
| 8 | This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all . |
| 9 | President Roosevelt wired Churchill on 21 November that both sides had compromised , but the UK insisted on restricting the number of aircraft irrespective of the amount of traffic : ‘ This seems to me a form of strangulation , ’ he wrote , and he asked Churchill not to let the conference collapse . |
| 10 | This seems to me to be an enormous change . |
| 11 | Normally ( see Fig. 3.2 ) cortisol is secreted mainly around the time of waking and this seems to be part of dealing with the ‘ stress ’ of waking up and preparing for the new day . |
| 12 | Both the Bishop and the parish ( St Mary 's , Avondale ) in Harare were obviously keen to have us and our visit helped confirm to us that this seems to be the Lord 's next step for us . |
| 13 | This seems to be pitching things a good deal too high , but the current London Film Festival , which continues until Sunday , tends to confirm the impression that 1989 has been a less than vintage year for the movies . |
| 14 | This seems to be the deplorable advice which the image builders are giving to their political clients . |
| 15 | This seems to me to be mostly self-regarding poppycock . |
| 16 | This seems to be an inferior method of identifying the question of the boundaries of permissible conduct , and it is arguable whether this requirement forms part of the criminal law . |
| 17 | This seems to be a major bugbear of some guns , making them harder work than applying the adhesive from a tube . |
| 18 | This seems to be the main process ordering them into ranks . |
| 19 | This seems to me to be a more accurate picture of the nature of religious belief than one which suggests that those who really believe , must confess to an unbridgeable gulf between themselves and ‘ unbelief ‘ . |
| 20 | ’ This seems to be the root of the quarrel between Modigliani and Beatrice , a battle of the egos , her determination to patronize and his fury at her presumption . |
| 21 | This seems to be a speciality of Nice . |
| 22 | This seems to be the way Rawls treats the problem ( though he is sensitive to fallibility concerning applied principles ( see pp. 195–7 ) But quite apart from the fact that by this one assumes that in the original position the parties discount a general fact of human nature , namely its fallibility , this procedure will sanction non-adaptable constitutions — a highly counter-intuitive conclusion . |
| 23 | ‘ This seems to be of interest , sir , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Safety legislation requires the disclosure of hazardous contents but this seems to be ignored as well . |
| 25 | This seems to me to make parody and irony worth understanding more precisely . |
| 26 | This seems to be a restatement of the old law and a rejection of Philips . |
| 27 | Often this seems to be taken to unnecessary lengths , since there are relatively few instances where seeing the book helps a selection decision , and even fewer where it is significant . |
| 28 | It is the initial disposition to comply with which we are concerned , and this seems to be a ‘ natural emergent ’ . |
| 29 | The reason for this seems to be that the opportunity cost of keeping boys at school when they could go out to work is greater than for girls , especially for poor rural families . |
| 30 | This seems to be the case in figure 9.1 , for example , at the point where national assistance changes over to supplementary benefit . |