Example sentences of "seem [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pug people say their club is classless , but the dogs do seem to attract a certain kind of owner . |
| 2 | ‘ That turn of phrase you have … would seem to indicate a good deal of education . ’ |
| 3 | and Torrington and Weightman would seem to indicate a significant emphasis on 1 , 2 3 and 4 with substantially less stress on 5 , 6 and 7 . |
| 4 | Although I do seem to remember a little scene after you 'd carelessly cut your hand at the fountain , when I mentioned a few more personal attributes that were to my liking . ’ |
| 5 | Admittedly , the theology of the end of days is vague enough : Daniel does not seem to expect a universal resurrection of the dead . |
| 6 | Kate did not seem to play a great part in her husband 's political life : she appeared on platforms with him from time to time , but she was by no means an automatic member of his entourage . |
| 7 | However , scent does not seem to play a large part in hunting . |
| 8 | Although Feingold 's theory was not entirely right , he was correct to single out food additives for blame — they do seem to play a disproportionate role in hyperactivity , compared to other types of illness such as asthma or eczema . |
| 9 | Although the time a child spends on task relates to many factors , including some beyond the teacher 's control , the organizational complexity obtaining in many primary classrooms would seem to play a significant part . |
| 10 | Paradoxically however , the breakdown in value consensus that generated the accountability movement might seem to require a new form of consensus if accountability demands are to be satisfied . |
| 11 | But the word ‘ provoked ’ does seem to require a human act rather than a natural event which leads D to lose self-control . |
| 12 | the hypothesis may seem to give a palatable explanation of the emergence of life on Earth , but it merely pushes the problem one stage back : how did life originate on the planet of these putative alien space travellers ? |
| 13 | No one from either DEC or the museum could seem to give a clear idea of how complete the prototypes will be at the end of the research contract in April 1995 . |
| 14 | It would seem to commemorate a humble farmer and his wife , truly two of Thomas Gray 's flowers ‘ born to blush unseen ’ , but that is far from correct for Barbra Gilmor is a character in the story of Ayrshire 's heritage , a woman with a unique claim to fame in the annals of the county . |
| 15 | Nothing but bills as usual — she did n't seem to get a great deal else these days . |
| 16 | James May , who heads an advisory service , says small businesses do seem to get a raw deal . |
| 17 | Monitor theory and reinforcement theory would seem to have a good deal in common . |
| 18 | The British government did n't seem to have a coherent policy for dealing with the hostage situation , they just wanted to teach the kidnappers a lesson . |
| 19 | The latter was more likely ; he did not seem to have a great deal of time for God . |
| 20 | The Conservatives might seem to have a legitimate claim as the largest single party ; but they had failed to obtain a mandate for Protection . |
| 21 | I want us still to go out together , I want him to be my boyfriend , I really need him to confide in , as I do n't seem to have a close girlfriend . |
| 22 | Yeah , we do n't , we do n't seem to have a Vice Chairman , looking at last years |
| 23 | And so far , with our results , it looks as if it does not seem to have a major impact on our patients , so we may be doing something that does n't er particularly help the patients , and this is very important since we spend a lot of time doing these sorts of er procedures in our patients . |
| 24 | Moreover , the best lunar analogue for the Mercurian smooth plains are not the maria , which are the best candidates on the Moon for volcanic activity , but the lunar highland plains , which do not seem to have a volcanic origin . |
| 25 | Mr Benton said : ‘ Read 's did seem to have a bright future as long as they could overcome short term cash difficulties . |
| 26 | He does not seem to have a top trigger . |
| 27 | Across the great divide the hotly coloured landscapes by Evgeni Dybski , from Konsyanza in Romania , and the even larger Fauvist Landscapes by Londonborn Lucy Jones , would seem to have a considerable number of points in common . |
| 28 | The degree of damage by chipping and splitting of the teeth is already greater , of its kind , than has been observed in the predator assemblages ( see Chapter 3 ) , and since it is combined with absence of breakage of the skulls and mandibles it would seem to present a different pattern of modification from the pellet assemblages . |
| 29 | These last points may seem to imply a flagrant disregard of the well-known difficulty , first pointed out by the philosopher David Hume in the Treatise of Human Nature ( 1739 ) , of reasoning from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ ( Selby-Bigge ed. , 1952 , pp. 469–70 ) . |
| 30 | These enactments , particularly when seen alongside pledges in the Conservative Party 's 1987 general election manifesto ( and subsequently presented to Parliament ) to allow schools and council tenants to ‘ opt out ’ of local authority control , would seem to envisage a diminished role for elected local government . |