Example sentences of "[pers pn] seems [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seems to confuse the royal family with God — capital letters surge across her pages , even for the definite article when it 's in proximity with royalty — as in ‘ The Queen and The Prince ’ . |
| 2 | I mean she seems to fill the bloody house with people every day of the week . |
| 3 | Well yes , but I mean it 's she seems to do the opposite thing to Charlotte , cos she used to sleep in the morning and fidget around in the afternoons and this one fidgets all morning and then sleeps in the afternoon . |
| 4 | But she seems to understand the basic priciples of pool . |
| 5 | That 's what It seems that you do n't It seems to affect the immediate folk and not many other folks nowadays . |
| 6 | Ritual mourning for the divine son of a mother-goddess is very common throughout ancient polytheism — not to mention modern polytheisms like Catholicism — where it seems to represent the same situation as the self-inflicted mutilations but at one remove . |
| 7 | Beautifully scented by fragrant olive and lemon groves , slender cypress and exotic palm trees , for many it seems to represent the exact dream they have of Italy . |
| 8 | The dissociation of the Muftilik from a kadilik is thus important in that it seems to represent the further definition of a chiefly " religious ' authority , the representative of the more spiritual aspect of the Seriat as opposed to its practical application which was to some degree tainted , in the eyes of the pious , by its close association with secular government . |
| 9 | Moreover , rather as substance dualism tends to do , it seems to undermine the causal role of consciousness in , for example , bringing about or influencing actions . |
| 10 | Perhaps the one big glaring example where natural predation can have a significant effect , quite astonishing on occasions , is with greenfly , and no doubt the most familiar example — it seems to get the most publicity — is the ladybird . |
| 11 | Immanuel Yelikovsky 's idea that the Earth stopped rotating in Old Testament times is attractive , as Martin Gardner points out in his recent Science , Good , Bad and Bogus , because it seems to verify the Old Testament . |
| 12 | The argument as I have presented it seems to require the first reading of this crucial sentence ; on the second reading we get , not a regress of justification , but a demonstration of justification which is only successful in certain conditions . |
| 13 | They do n't think it 's what they call ‘ right ’ for women to do jobs like castrations , and it seems to embarrass the poor dears to talk of putting heifers to the bull and dealing with calving cases , or to discuss the sexual behaviour of their animals . ’ |
| 14 | Outside it , it seems to have the opposite effect . |
| 15 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |
| 16 | He seems to treat the whole incident almost like a scientific experiment , albeit a deadly serious one , with great precision and planning and a kind of coldness . |