Example sentences of "[noun] seems [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings . |
| 2 | Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings . |
| 3 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 4 | MORE THAN any other county , Derbyshire seems to have the sharpest contrasts between urban and rural surroundings . |
| 5 | Statement B seems to admit the greatest amount of contingency into the determination of outcomes , but nevertheless still falls back on a tendential law to explain how racism is reproduced . |
| 6 | Einstein 's general theory of relativity seems to govern the large-scale structure of the universe . |
| 7 | Given the Drawing Center 's success in attracting first-rate exhibitions — and in attracting corporate money — Beck seems to have the best chance for success of the three . |
| 8 | Bureaucracy seems to block the Chinese sources , which with their huge mule farms must have a great deal of information . |
| 9 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 10 | Even though he may pay lip service to the idea that there are probably many breaks not yet discovered , nevertheless almost every geologist seems to accept the above doctrine , albeit subconsciously . |
| 11 | Editor , — Robert Bluglass seems to bypass the essential problem in community care of mentally ill people — namely , chronic schizophrenia in which insight is lost . |
| 12 | Largely as a result of Wedd 's enthusiasm , I found myself becoming irresistibly attracted to the Scots pine — the solitary tree as well as the clump — not just as a potential ley mark point , but as something in its own right , I was not alone : legend seems to confirm the special nature of the pine . |
| 13 | Unlike grommets , adenoidectomy seems to modify the underlying pathophysiology of chronic otitis media with effusion — making it our initial surgical procedure of choice in cases of severe , persistent effusion . |
| 14 | I suspect it is no accident the politics of the times seems to parallel the growing toughness of the police image , or that the police have taken on an increasing resemblance to the black-clothed enemies of goodness who sprinkle the popular science fantasy films such as Star Wars , Superman , and the like . |
| 15 | Love and honour , the pivotal themes of the Hornblower books , and essential to their success , are held in a balance which at times seems to hamper the essential directness of Forester 's narrative technique . |
| 16 | Also , the drug seems to inhibit the viral DNA polymerase enzyme much more effectively than it does the DNA polymerase used by the cell to copy its own DNA . |
| 17 | Antiarrhythmic drugs — Among type 1a antiarrhythmic drugs , quinidine seems to have the greatest potential for causing torsades de pointes and is estimated to produce syncope in 0.5–4.0% of patients as a result of this tachyarrhythmia . |
| 18 | A gold ornament found in the Knossos Labyrinth seems to represent the Cretan skaros or parrot wrasse , which is now quite rare in Cretan waters but still highly regarded as a dish ( Figure 36c ) . |
| 19 | The strategy seems to ignore the Open Software Foundation 's RPC-based Distributed Computing Environment , which opts for the Mach microkernel . |
| 20 | This flaw seems to explain the odd network in the crucial option A — the one Serpell says should make a profit . |
| 21 | Much of the technical literature on the subject seems to confuse the two sets of questions distinguished in this section . |
| 22 | ’ Typically , Morrissey seems to cherish the very constraints and despondency of a now disappearing England , fetishize the lost limits . |
| 23 | Its beating a path to Hewlett-Packard Co 's door seems to indicate the final demise of Intel 's 80860 as a mainstream system-level CPU . |
| 24 | Though Cutler seems to regard the three modes as , in the end , ideal types , in practice his discussion of the relationships between reproductive media and musical practices — which is genuinely important — is presented as an abstract schema . |
| 25 | Th th the trouble is the government seems to go the other way , and er , when when it should be learning my opinion , lowering the age at which you receive your pension , they want to extend the age into which you have to work . |
| 26 | Local government seems to have the upper hand on matters of censorship in libraries at the moment , and national Government often intervenes decisively on major professional issues in professional medicine . |
| 27 | Any notion of the Government playing a role in increasing the provision of child care seems to escape the Prime Minister . |
| 28 | The more so at Augusta , the arrival of which each year seems to signal the happy end of winter hibernation . |
| 29 | I 've talked about miocenia gravis ; there is it 's rarer cousin , the syndrome , which sometimes associates with carcinoma of the lung , and we have shown that this too is an auto-immune disease in which the lung cancer seems to precipitate the immune system into making an antibody against it , the tumour , and the because the tumour has on its surface the same thing as the nerve terminal , the antibody also binds to the nerve terminal and causes trouble there . |
| 30 | The adopted position seems to reflect the current situation in countries such as France and Germany . |