Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railfreight said all the physical difficulties could be overcome with investment , but all the options seemed to start at about £100,000 . |
| 2 | Every house seemed to have at least one , sometimes several , of the distinctive mud-baked nests under its eaves . |
| 3 | It all seemed to happen at once . |
| 4 | ‘ All seemed to happen at once . |
| 5 | It was in 1918 , the last year of the war , when everything seemed to happen at once . |
| 6 | Jack nodded and took a step towards Steve where he lay surrounded by his family , and then everything seemed to happen at once . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you seem to know at least one of them , ’ I say . |
| 8 | If you look through the components lists of a few recent projects you will no doubt find some that only use common components , but most seem to use at least one or two ‘ specials ’ . |
| 9 | Estimates of actual job reductions seem to run at about 30 per cent . |
| 10 | I have been unemployed for seven months now and all the people I meet in the Job Club seem to have at least one bad experience of these so-called training schemes . |
| 11 | More specifically , we have found that there are adaptive reasons that seem to explain at least part of the variation that Lewontin cites in each of his examples . |
| 12 | Every offering seems to contain at least four separate songs — so there 's rarely any danger of things descending into the kind of tedium often purveyed by dreadlocked squat-dwellers . |
| 13 | It is to be admitted that any particular conscious episode , in the moment of experiencing of it , seems to consist at least largely in but one thing — as , say , when the address " 4 Keats Grove " comes to mind . |
| 14 | Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches . |
| 15 | HP seems to have at least a couple of options : an immediate Thunderbird response , levelling the playing field with Sun right now — with ships in October — or a big splash in the Autumn , with immediate deliveries . |
| 16 | The London Road End always seems to have at least one organizer , and usually two . |
| 17 | He seems to have at least gained some contact with his thought-penetration circuits and this is confirmed by the smelly fumes of wood smoke and melting plastic that wriggle their way into the atmosphere of the carriage . |
| 18 | Everybody seems to have at least one baby , suddenly . |
| 19 | But whoever pays the bill , most of us still regularly visit the hairdresser , whether it 's once a week or once a year and as each town seems to have at least 20 salons , this is an entirely random list . |
| 20 | B : There 's a yellow VW outside Sue 's house Here B 's contribution , taken literally , fails to answer A's question , and thus seems to violate at least the maxims of Quantity and Relevance . |