Example sentences of "seems [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To start with , none of the themes seem to link in with a previous theme or rheme ; each sentence seems to stand on its own in a sort of vacuum . |
| 2 | Berowne almost seems to revel in his own discomfiture here , in his desperate last stand for freedom -he clearly enjoys the sensation of falling in love , even though he presents the experience as a disaster ! |
| 3 | ‘ Sexuality ’ has in many ways been most resistant to this challenge , precisely because its power seems to derive from our biological being , but there have recently been several sustained challenges to sexual essentialism , from quite different theoretical approaches : the interactionist ( associated particularly with the work of Gagnon and Simon , and in Britain Kenneth Plummer ) ; the psychoanalytic ( associated with the reinterpretation of Freud initiated by Jacques Lacan , and taken up by feminist writers such as Juliet Mitchell ) ; and the discursive , taking as its starting point the work of Michel Foucault . |
| 4 | And although she seems to disagree with its overall drift , she tells me she 's in complete accord with my views on what she called my ‘ blasted reconstruction ’ . ’ |
| 5 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 6 | Guitarist Donita Sparks , at No 33 with Monster , says : ‘ We wanted to do something because no one in the music industry seems to care about our vanishing civil rights . ’ |
| 7 | Whether the picture is seen as a staircase viewed from above or a staircase viewed from below seems to depend on something other than the image on the retina of the viewer . |
| 8 | Besides which it 's a heck of a time for Noorda to be discussing succession — when so much of what can be accomplished with Unix seems to depend on his personal touch . |
| 9 | In contrast , other metaphors make reference to an animacy which seems to threaten by its very absence . |
| 10 | Now the door seems to move of its own accord . |
| 11 | The focus of his gaze has a startlingly piercing quality ; an intensity that seems to strike at your very core . |