Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [art] same [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 | Indeed western European governments in general seemed to take the same view . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We seem to think the same way . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such |
| 14 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 15 | Interestingly , Eysenck ( 1977 ) seems to encounter the same kind of problem . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No one else seems to have the same criticism . |
| 19 | What Mr Birchall noticed was that a diet lacking in silicon seems to have the same effect as one rich in aluminium . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | The to infinitive in sentences such as ( 21 ) — ( 25 ) above seems to involve the same mechanism of representation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They would seem to have the same purpose . |
| 24 | ‘ English dancers do n't seem to have the same enthusiasm ’ |
| 25 | English dancers do n't seem to have the same enthusiasm as Americans . |
| 26 | Surely , such practices should be condemned , especially as many companies , such as EMI , do not seem to have the same problem . |
| 27 | But I have been quite fascinated to see that the youngsters today do not seem to have the same interest in reading the paper . |
| 28 | still in , in one way , in European and North American situations women do seem to have the same sort of job opportunities as men do what about somewhere like Africa what about the West Coast of Africa , we talked about Nigeria and West Africa quite a lot , what about women involved in there ? |
| 29 | They are also relatively stable across contexts : for instance , a topless swim-suit would seem to exemplify the same sense of topless as ( a ) , and a topless barmaid the same as ( b ) . |
| 30 | Violence again propelled Northern Ireland into the national news headlines , but it did not seem to make the same impact at Stormont Castle , RUC headquarters at Brooklyn or Army headquarters in Lisburn . |