Example sentences of "seems [to-vb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , Eysenck ( 1977 ) seems to encounter the same kind of problem . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps the one big glaring example where natural predation can have a significant effect , quite astonishing on occasions , is with greenfly , and no doubt the most familiar example — it seems to get the most publicity — is the ladybird . |
| 5 | No one else seems to have the same criticism . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | What Mr Birchall noticed was that a diet lacking in silicon seems to have the same effect as one rich in aluminium . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | The to infinitive in sentences such as ( 21 ) — ( 25 ) above seems to involve the same mechanism of representation . |