Example sentences of "[noun] seem [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Primary schools seem to manage with the term ‘ classroom teacher ’ and their cross-curricular approach may have much to offer the secondary curriculum . |
| 2 | You also notice that Sebadoh are n't afraid to improvise live and that they 're so prolific , perfectly-formed new songs seem to drop from the sky . |
| 3 | In Norway in winter the smell of freshly baked bread , and the warmth from the containers , are great attractions , and visitors seem to congregate around the bakery like bees around a honey pot . |
| 4 | Furthermore , we found that the results of the assay seem to depend on the volume of hydrogen peroxide used . |
| 5 | In her more recent works , avalanches of everyday objects seem to fall from the sky . |
| 6 | Publication of research findings as single , small steps leads to individual ‘ knowledge claims ’ , by publication , some of which are incorporated into accepted knowledge ( Gilbert ) , but the largest theoretical advances seem to occur as the result of the application of several small steps , possibly involving different sub-disciplines in the research process . |
| 7 | Opinions in the marketplace seem to point to the likelihood that in 1996 ; when the next stage of legislation is introduced , all small diesel engines will have to use catalysts . |
| 8 | Other ideas seem to operate on the mind with great force , but they are not conscious , nor readily recalled to consciousness ; they are unconscious . |
| 9 | ‘ Statistics seem to point to the fact that Friday 13th is definitely unlucky ’ , said a spokesman . |
| 10 | Some of those who comment on subjects such as the safe disposal of nuclear wastes seem to work on the assumption that the relevant sciences and technologies are standing still . |
| 11 | Equally , while bodies of knowledge seem to exist before the advent of each generation , it is only through what Berger and Luckmann have called the " social construction of reality " that this knowledge is sustained . |
| 12 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 13 | Now I appreciate that some people seem to object to the words public protection , erm I 'm not certain why bearing in mind you have a public protection committee . |
| 14 | If you 're really rocking and rolling in the art department and you 're allowing some of the experiments to see their way into print , even if they 're not so , they do n't have that slick veneer that people seem to want in the marketing department , progress results and the rawness helps and the thing that makes Jack Stoffagers pages so wonderful is that they are unfiltered , you have the feeling that it 's the printer talking to you , determining something that he 's read , you know , he wants you to read . |
| 15 | At first glance some strands of these otherwise opposed political forces seem to agree on the use of censorship to oppose pornography . |
| 16 | Whether or not particular authors take industrialization to be the main engine of change , or whether they include other factors , such as urbanization and bureaucratization , three generally agreed themes seem to emerge from the writings of many sociologists of the family . |
| 17 | In vase-painting the late work of the Pioneers and the formation of a new generation of masters seem to come in the years around 500 . |
| 18 | In The Form the first two degrees of love seem to correspond to the stages in the contemplative 's life that Rolle has addressed in chapters one to six . |
| 19 | This is when pomposity and pedantry seem to get off the leash . |
| 20 | And those who get past the door seem to agree with the policy . |
| 21 | It is the trick one uses to make one 's own answer seem to come from the child . |
| 22 | The rocky heights seem to speak of the presence of the Deity . |
| 23 | Says Mrs Cunningham : ‘ Once they get in the playground the children seem to reel off the jokes non-stop . |
| 24 | Says Mrs Cunningham : ‘ Once they get in the playground the children seem to reel off the jokes non-stop . |
| 25 | Says Mrs Cunningham : ‘ Once they get in the playground the children seem to reel off the jokes non-stop . |
| 26 | Graham Greene sarcastically remarked of the latter that ‘ Both the director and the star seem to labour under the impression that they are producing something important ’ , and the film 's success was enough to assure Wilcox that Hungarian naughtiness should give way to solemn patriotism . |
| 27 | And her spectacles and peaked cap seem to add to the image of a beauty with brains . |
| 28 | In one particular sphere , however , other legal systems seem to disagree with the practicality argument : namely , cases of sexual intercourse with a girl under 16 committed by a person in a position of trust towards her . |
| 29 | The research is still continuing but conclusions to date seem to point to the fact that , although powers of reasoning are not necessarily enhanced , the speed at which the subject is able to reason or recall certainly is . |
| 30 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |