Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 2 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock . |
| 7 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 8 | And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did . |
| 9 | Furthermore the resulting " socialist man " seemed to have the same needs as his capitalist counterpart for material goods , especially those based on energy and materially intensive technologies . |
| 10 | Indeed western European governments in general seemed to take the same view . |
| 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 | Now that we have looked at Wharram Percy deserted village and seen something of the 30-year long excavations there , we should look at other studies and excavations on village sites which seem to suggest the same developments implied at Wharram Percy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You and he seem to share the same ideas ! |
| 15 | We seem to think the same way . ’ |
| 16 | Seeing as you only like bands who seem to have the same attitudes as you , I 'm sure you will be pleased to know there is a band called Guns N' Roses who have this same attitude . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such |
| 19 | Some of the tense/aspect distinctions of American Black English which have attracted the attention of sociolinguists seem to introduce the same problems of underlying structural non-identity as the Irish English perfect — an example is perfective done , illustrated by 19–21 . |
| 20 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 21 | Interestingly , Eysenck ( 1977 ) seems to encounter the same kind of problem . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | No one else seems to have the same criticism . |
| 25 | This geometric model ( a geometrically constructed system which seems to have the same properties as the Lorenz equations though the connection depends on several global properties of the flow which have not yet been proved ) has an attracting set , for a range of parameter values , which is a strange attractor , but which is a slightly different strange attractor at every parameter value in the range ( see below ) . |
| 26 | What Mr Birchall noticed was that a diet lacking in silicon seems to have the same effect as one rich in aluminium . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | The to infinitive in sentences such as ( 21 ) — ( 25 ) above seems to involve the same mechanism of representation . |
| 29 | They share experiences , but they do n't seem to share the same memories of them . |
| 30 | 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 . |