Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Daddy , wisest and kindest of men , seemed to suffer from the same delusion . |
| 2 | He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species . |
| 3 | Stack claim that the gun is balanced for colour as well as brightness of the image but all the games seemed to play with the same degree of accuracy even with a black&white image . |
| 4 | Nick and she , they were proportioned to each other , they seemed to belong to the same tribe . |
| 5 | All the anger she had ever felt seemed to shrink into no more than fits of petty temper in the face of what she was feeling now . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the ordinary and the extraordinary seemed to coincide at the same point . |
| 7 | Life appeared to continue largely as normal in the Libyan capital , and the warning seemed to amount to no more than the routine diplomatic tit-for-tat when countries expel each other 's envoys . |
| 8 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 9 | Whetton seemed to move into the All Black position more or less on the grounds of seniority and his experience of captaining Auckland . |
| 10 | And somehow all her own reservations and objections seemed to evaporate at the same time . |
| 11 | " You never seem to appear in the same gown twice running . |
| 12 | Similarly , it is often the case that senior officials within the civil service all seem to come from the same sort of background . |
| 13 | Fundamentally however , all objects such as ‘ chapters ’ , ‘ sections ’ , ‘ entries ’ , ‘ acts ’ and ‘ scenes ’ , ‘ cantos ’ etc. seem to behave in the same way : they are incomplete in themselves , and often nest hierarchically . |
| 14 | Moreover the provisions of section 2(1) ( a ) also seem to point in the same direction . |
| 15 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 16 | For example , they seem to survive on a few hours ' sleep ; they will report waking and getting up early ( often to the annoyance of their families ) ; sporting activities include frenetic games ( squash ) and/or strenuous single person sports ( running , swimming ) . |
| 17 | Being situated in Farmoor the village is very sought after and residents seem to move within the same village as it is so popular . |
| 18 | Other diarrhoea-causing bacteria seem to operate on the same principle as cholera enterotoxin ie. by blocking sodium and chloride ion reabsorption and causing chloride ion secretion into the gut lumen . |
| 19 | But from what little I do know of it , my understanding is that it basically dramatises the same power relationships , and so seems to appeal to the same inequalities . |
| 20 | ( His view of sex seems to suffer from the same ‘ Pharisaical ’ , constraints that ben Eliezer fought against , when he condemns ‘ Celebration ’ as ‘ a failure of tone , ’ ‘ portentous … imagery and the reality of the blow-job . ’ |
| 21 | The refusal is as understandable as it is naive , but seems to constitute at the same time what amounts to an abnegation of intellectual curiosity about human needs . |
| 22 | Sex actually raises testosterone levels — so perhaps that 's why sexual drive seems to accelerate with the more sex you have , and partly why people who stop having sex forget about it . |