Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be right but some people seem to dramatize a commonplace misfortune and turn it into a cult . |
| 2 | However , there are also two general principles which seem to signal a particular emphasis in the public sector . |
| 3 | I take two examples which I find seem to embrace the fateful aspects of my life in the Service . |
| 4 | Taken together , even with this small sample , these results seem to indicate a significant correlation between readers ' familiarity with the SF genre and their likely perception of the meaning and coherence of the text . |
| 5 | Some of the four million annual visitors seem to find the mere ascent insufficiently fulfilling . |
| 6 | They seem to find the sexual promenading of the warriors amusing . |
| 7 | I know how much you two enjoy a good tiff , and I seem to provide a convenient topic for it . |
| 8 | So far as desktop publishing goes the dominant range here is supplied by Bitstream , indeed most packages seem to provide the basic Dutch ( Times ) and Swiss ( Helvetica ) faces free of charge . |
| 9 | ‘ Since most experts seem to preclude a major upturn in energy prices before the end of the century , we may have to develop a combination of policies and taxes to stimulate the market for improvements in efficiency now as insurance against disruptions from climate change later . ’ |
| 10 | It is an elegant way to travel , much better than waiting for the buses which , at this time of year , seem to come every other Tuesday . |
| 11 | Developer conferences these days seem to harbour a deep-seated resentment of Microsoft and , unfortunately , Allchin is not the most charismatic senior executive that Microsoft could have fielded — frankly he killed himself by an overlong demo ( and let us not forget that Gates himself is probably the only competitor to Jobs ’ title of demo king ) that crashed a couple of times . |
| 12 | I seem to remember an American thesis writer who crashed to the ground over this contorted problem , and I am sure that both Worsley and Sir John Summerson ( who contributes an elegant introduction to Mansbridge 's book ) would concur that mystery still surrounds the problem of Nash the draughtsman . |
| 13 | I seem to remember the Labour Party being dragged down what proved to be a very long dark road indeed by the trade unions . |
| 14 | I seem to remember the other evening — ’ |
| 15 | As for Miss Kenton , I seem to remember the mounting tension of those days having a noticeable effect upon her . |
| 16 | Thus the archaeocyathids ( or Pleospogia ) of the Cambrian , certain brachiopods and forams in the Permian and the rudistid bivalves in the Cretaceous all seem to parallel the present equator . |
| 17 | These two assumptions , when combined with Contrast , become equivalent to Markman 's ( 1984 ) principle of Mutual Exclusivity , and seem to reflect a fundamental factor in the organization of conceptual categories — namely , categories should be organized , at least initially , in non-overlapping fashion at the same level ( see also Shipley and Kuhn , 1983 , and Clark , in preparation ) . |
| 18 | Simplicity and ceremonial seem to express the changing pattern of Nonconformist worship but that worship was only part of a wider search for dignity , a dignity which was mainly realized in the new and improved buildings Nonconformity was erecting up and down the country . |
| 19 | Delia Marr graphically demonstrates her sincere affection for dogs of all kinds through paintings which seem to express the very soul of her subjects |
| 20 | JD says that for some reason the rails also seem to amplify the high frequencies , but ca n't say why . |
| 21 | On the other hand the loss of heather has meant a contraction of the breeding-grounds for birds like golden plover , dunlin , and perhaps whimbrel , although the post-breeding flocks of these species seem to favour the re-seeded grassland . |
| 22 | Previous work has used this characteristic to suggest a sub-lithospheric component that is more akin to MORB than to OIB , whereas the Os isotope data seem to favour an OIB-like component . |
| 23 | I seem to hear the stuck pig shriek |
| 24 | The words " receiving " " undertaking " and " arranging " all seem to suggest a positive act , but " assisting " covers omissions , provided that there is a legal duty to act : Brown [ 1970 ] 1 QB 105 ( CA ) — allowing another to place stolen goods on his property . |
| 25 | ‘ I seem to expect the whole happiness and sweetness to come from you ’ , he wrote as he warned Helen that she should find a real need for patience with him . |
| 26 | At night , when faced with a choice between an unnecessary operation and repeated clinical review with the possibility of a perforated appendix later , junior doctors seem to prefer an uninflamed appendix as the lesser of two evils . |
| 27 | Busy industry bosses seem to prefer the cosmopolitan chaos of Paris to the charms of Birmingham . |
| 28 | This morning a rat poked his nose in , but they usually seem to prefer the main hold . |
| 29 | Recently-hatched dogwhelks ( plate 1b ) are found at the same level as their capsules and seem to prefer the empty cases of barnacles to the shells of living or dead mussels . |
| 30 | Users also seem to play an important role in silicon based semi-conductors and electronic sub-assemblies on printed circuits . |