Example sentences of "[vb mod] seem [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That might seem to leave the Government in the dark , but they 're confident they know where there going . |
| 2 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |
| 3 | At first glance , the association of holism with their strongly materialist brand of Marxism might seem to prejudice the discussion : the very distinctiveness of its explanatory categories might seem to distract attention from the matter in hand . |
| 4 | In the circumstances , the latter 's preference for Model B was understandable in that it might seem to offer the degree of financial and educational independence which their maturity now merited . |
| 5 | There is virtual unanimity of preference for oral teaching which might seem to overbear the possibility of opposition . |
| 6 | However well suited he might seem to become the patron saint of the IRA , the cap does not fit . |
| 7 | The sharp dualism that is proposed whereby acquisition and learning are two quite distinct processes would seem to force the conclusion that if you think carefully , choose your words , take your time before making your conversational contribution you can not communicate , or at any rate not very effectively , because you are interfering with the natural function of the acquired system . |
| 8 | initially the embryo of any other mammal ( such as a cat ) is hard to distinguish from that of a human being , and only later do the necessary differences appear — this would seem to reflect the processes involved in divergent evolution |
| 9 | Such a theory would seem to support the notion of two distinct orientations of dramatic playing and performing , but Stanislavsky 's theory of acting seems to embrace both modes , leading us to consider the model as dialectic , each mode containing the seed of its opposite . |
| 10 | Lord Lane , the Lord Chief Justice , said a bare recitation of the facts would seem to support the contention the sentence was too lenient . |
| 11 | These studies would seem to support the view of a society in which sexual norms are slowly on the change . |
| 12 | However , recent writings on leadership would seem to support the retention of the skills of the generalist administrator . |
| 13 | The parallelism of greater precision would seem to set the matter beyond doubt : " the ends of the earth " must surely function as specification of the ambiguous . |
| 14 | Where the wrongful conduct of the police is the initiating event , this would seem to justify the citizen in engaging in increasingly spirited acts of resistance . |
| 15 | How haughty it would seem to refuse the aid of a Brother … so that others must inconvenience themselves by fishing him from the void . |
| 16 | The outstanding results they continue to produce would seem to confirm the validity of the first assumption that they are naturally gifted . |
| 17 | The north gate is presumed to lie at the point where modern Northgate Street cuts the line of the wall ; a Roman street underlying the modern one here would seem to confirm the correctness of this assumption . |
| 18 | All we can say is that ceteris paribus we should expect consequences of these kinds and then look at specific developments which would seem to illustrate the possibilities . |
| 19 | ENGLAND 'S first-Test victory in New Zealand would seem to mark the completion of a unique achievement in the history of Test cricket . |
| 20 | They would seem to demonstrate the proposition that a text can only ever designate its own activity , that textuality is inherently narcissistic . |
| 21 | To remove the distinction completely would seem to undermine the insights that had given force to Bakhtin 's earlier criticism . |
| 22 | This new twist , hardly an enticement to any self-respecting software developer , would seem to open the door for Unix SVR4.2 to make a move at the next Apache pow-wow in August . |
| 23 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 24 | This would seem to require the ability to reconstruct from each other 's behaviour the probable goal that the behaviour was intended to achieve ( otherwise , the interdependent actions would not be likely to culminate in the achievement of the joint task ) . |
| 25 | Although this would seem to fulfil the requirements of the regulations , my application to have this experience recognised for just six months of higher training was rejected by the college without explanation . |
| 26 | In fact , the Caldwell definition of recklessness has not been followed in rape cases , even though that offence would seem to fulfil the criterion of being a modern statute in which the term ‘ reckless ’ is used . |
| 27 | The plans would seem to have the merit both of broadening the spectrum of judges and giving the consumer greater choice . |
| 28 | Out wide , the Bath duo of Tony Swift and Jim Fallon would seem to have the edge on Andy Harriman , if he recovers from injury , and Mike Wedderburn . |
| 29 | In ( 2 ) , on the other hand , we would seem to have the equivalent of He managed to get free , that is , a use where the to infinitive evokes a subsequent actualization ( i.e. a realized event ) . |
| 30 | Confucians ever since Mencius ( fl. 320 BC ) were very much concerned with the problem that if , as seems evident , there is evil in the nature which man receives from Heaven , to do evil in accordance with one 's nature would seem to have the authority of Heaven . |