Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] seems " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is such a lucid writer — and although he defends himself ably against the charge of superficiality ( which has been levelled since I was a student ) the breadth of his scholarship is so immense that the defence seems unnecessary . |
| 2 | Both linguistic and legal grounds make the second of these hypotheses the more plausible : the response seems to be tailored ( drastically ) to fit the preceding enquiry , in which only subsequent debts are considered ; there is no reason why this trust clause should be thought invalid , as other texts confirm . |
| 3 | Ridley , as an ophthalmologist , might well have followed up this observation with more studies of eye infections , but the opportunity seems not to have been pursued . |
| 4 | The approach of the majority seems to have been that even if there was such a breach the courts would refuse to acknowledge that it existed . |
| 5 | Now you have castles grim towering to heaven ; again , a storm-beat wall of cliff , the mist surgings beneath imitating the motions of the waves of ocean ; now you seem to get a peep of fairyland , and think you see the dwellers in a city of light : again , the veil seems as if hiding a very abode of woes , dark places of gloom . |
| 6 | But the Prince seems to have forgotten his youthful adventures . |
| 7 | The ridge seems massive from the road , and when we tried to tell our driver where we 'd been , he grunted in disbelief . |
| 8 | In one respect the change seems to me to have been for the worse . |
| 9 | By surrounding the adjective " interesting " with two intensifiers — " very " and " indeed " — the writer seems to recognise that the word " interesting " itself is somehow inadequate . |
| 10 | The piano-move seems years ago and in another world . |
| 11 | A common problem when starting in stronger winds is that the board seems constantly to turn into the wind . |
| 12 | ‘ The board seems to have learned nothing about how the people of Arbroath feel for their own hospital . |
| 13 | The flicker seems to be dormant , at least for the moment . ’ |
| 14 | On other occasions , the genome seems to rearrange itself for its own ends . |
| 15 | Very little additional colour can have a dramatically brightening effect : the trick seems to be to reduce the black element to a design of sufficient simplicity to integrate small dabs of colour . |
| 16 | The trick seems to be their enthusiasm . |
| 17 | The winner seems to be determined by how strongly the extension adheres to the wall , and the cell eventually moves to the site where the attachments are strongest . |
| 18 | The alternative is to simplify the statue and interpret it with larger shapes so the technique seems integrated . |
| 19 | The alternative is to simplify the statue and interpret it with larger shapes so the technique seems integrated . |
| 20 | Among the reptiles , the distribution of the technique seems particularly arbitrary . |
| 21 | The technique seems to be refutation by denigration : If you can attach a label to my approach , you do n't have to say what is wrong with it . |
| 22 | The technique seems to offer a form of logical immortality as computer languages used for the simulations become increasingly machine-independent . |
| 23 | But the measure seems likely to pass Congress . |
| 24 | But the measure seems certain to be killed off later in its parliamentary passage as ministers are planning to publish their own proposals for greater openness in government this summer . |
| 25 | Congratulating the lady on the originality of her costume , the Empress added : ‘ I notice that this evening the heart seems slightly lower than usual . ’ |
| 26 | The money seems valueless to him . |
| 27 | The rest of the money seems to have been used to finance a double life . |
| 28 | Although the tone of the narrative seems neutral , empty of feeling , the minute observation of the way A … positions the chairs gradually fills it up , so that it begins to pulsate with energy from a subject that is never once mentioned . |
| 29 | So , although the watch seems to supply a constant and exact reading of time , it is in fact a discontinuous display . |
| 30 | ( The fact that this might have been the case seems to be beyond the imagination of many even of liberal disposition in the church . ) |