Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 2 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 3 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 4 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 5 | Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock . |
| 6 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 7 | And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did . |
| 8 | And Selvey 's summing-up was worthy of a high court judge : very frivolous , and most them marginal , but only five of the 34 wickets were leg-before and even those were of an apparently arbitrary nature : those given seemed to have no more merit than many that were not . ’ |
| 9 | Indeed western European governments in general seemed to take the same view . |
| 10 | The unexpected development seemed to make no more sense than the feather and the note ; or , for that matter , the glass ball . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Most importantly , the people who will have to implement the community care reforms seem to share the same vision and , despite certain reservations , the same enthusiasm . |
| 13 | We seem to think the same way . ’ |
| 14 | The laws of cause and effect , which appear to operate so consistently in the physical world , seem to have no such application in the world of metaphysics . |
| 15 | Those who most confidently claim to speak for British interests sometimes seem to have the least confidence that those interests are likely to prevail . |
| 16 | An early temple in Sicily had a huge terracotta Gorgon-mask in the gable-centre ; and groups of fighting animals , which seem to have the same function , adorn other early pediments . |
| 17 | Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such |
| 18 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 19 | Interestingly , Eysenck ( 1977 ) seems to encounter the same kind of problem . |
| 20 | Over the last five years , Martin Millar has stood alone as the one London novelist who seems to inhabit the same city as the rest of us . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | No one else seems to have the same criticism . |
| 24 | What Mr Birchall noticed was that a diet lacking in silicon seems to have the same effect as one rich in aluminium . |
| 25 | President Clinton 's plans to bolster US industry — particularly the high tech sector , begin to look disturbingly corporatist , and the chief executive of the Baby Bells ' Bell Communications Research , George Heilmeier , seems to feel the same way : he told Reuter that the government should certainly spur industry to construct a national information highway but it should not build it itself : ‘ I do n't think the public sector should operate or control networks that are commercial , ’ he said , ‘ I am not in favour of the government building the national information infrastructure . ’ |
| 26 | The to infinitive in sentences such as ( 21 ) — ( 25 ) above seems to involve the same mechanism of representation . |
| 27 | I did n't ever seem to get the same sort of satisfaction out of getting something to balance properly as I did out of seeing a patient recover , which was something you 'd helped them to do . |
| 28 | They would seem to have the same purpose . |
| 29 | ‘ English dancers do n't seem to have the same enthusiasm ’ |
| 30 | English dancers do n't seem to have the same enthusiasm as Americans . |