Example sentences of "seems [to-vb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly previous experience shapes present and future conduct but the good teacher or the good manager will not be contented simply with repeating what he or she has already been through without questioning the constraints of the organization which seems to stand in the way . |
| 2 | And the only thing that seems to stand in the way of doing anything commercially sensible with County Farms is that every time we deal with it , somebody says , ah , but it can only exist as an entity , let's keep it as that , let's pass it on to a trust , let's safeguard it , let's do this and that . |
| 3 | He lets the silence linger for ten endless seconds , during which his bulk seems to swell in the room . |
| 4 | Until 27 March at Ronald Feldman , a gallery that seems to specialise in the genre , Todd Siler ( who holds a combined doctoral degree in neuroscience and art and who has written a book called Breaking the Mind Barrier ) has devised a tableau he calls ‘ Radical Futures ’ . |
| 5 | The assumption which seems to prevail in the literature on conduct disorder is that certain disordered personality characteristics are formed which tend to continue , although the data on continuities in adverse social conditions which would confirm this assumption is by and large absent . |
| 6 | Woods seems to assume in the passage cited above that there are only a few regions where high quality accidental word matches take place . |
| 7 | Found in savanna woodland and grassland wherever there is such terrain throughout subsaharan Africa , the warthog is one of the classic wild pigs , an animal whose distinctive countenance seems to stick in the mind of anyone who 's ever seen one or a picture of one . |
| 8 | more ancient seems to hang in the air . |
| 9 | No consensus seems to exist in the literature for the identification of risk factors having the best prognostic value for early mortality after variceal haemorrhage . |
| 10 | The answer seems to lie in the past . |
| 11 | Maturity , at least for me , seems to lie in the discovery that happiness and circumstances do n't have all that much to do with each other ; that happiness is more a matter of choice and habit than we suppose , and less dependent upon the accident of circumstances . |
| 12 | Again , the answer seems to lie in the way that the reformulation draws the hearer 's attention to the differences between just being gone and having vanished . |
| 13 | A greater chance of success seems to lie in the sequel . |
| 14 | The fault or flaw here seems to lie in the woman 's original dissatisfaction . |
| 15 | The solution seems to lie in the fact that the amounts which later become due ( interest ) are consequent on the debt that is being released . |
| 16 | The explanation for this seems to lie in the nature of gardening . |