Example sentences of "[pron] seem more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After all — you seem more than preoccupied with the sultry Domino . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose I was trying to make you seem more human . |
| 3 | And though not a leaf or outline moved , there seemed more air , and a fresh little welcome breath from time to time near one 's skin . |
| 4 | They seemed more than content to skip the final episode — the half-mile procession on foot to inter the king 's body in the death-cliffs . |
| 5 | Women in tweed overcoats , men in dark melton overcoats — they seemed more overcoats than people ; the sort of people whose personalities are not large enough to dominate their outdoor clothes . |
| 6 | I saw him once in his State robes ; then , to his highly impressionable nephew , he seemed more than human . |
| 7 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 8 | No disrespect to Philip Young , the conductor , or to any of the performers , but I have to agree with the member of the audience sitting behind me who commented that it seemed more of a damp squib than a big band ! |
| 9 | Perhaps it was only that the hot climb had tired her but it seemed more than that . |
| 10 | We 've just gone through Armistice Day and I was and it 's always made , made me feel there 's something a little bit wrong about Armistice , it seemed more of a glorification in the way |
| 11 | With nostrils at the end of a proboscis-like beak , conspicuous ears and unable to fly , it seemed more mammal than bird . |
| 12 | ‘ It seemed more than that from where I was sitting . ’ |
| 13 | And as the years from retirement lengthen , it seems more and more tenuous to group men in terms of long-past work , let alone women who since marriage may never have been in paid work at all . |
| 14 | It seems more than likely that with parishes concentrating on basic food needs , the other kinds of discretionary payments , which had been a feature of the eighteenth-century poor , were made less often and with declining generosity . |
| 15 | Given the massive contribution made daily by dedicated staff at the DMH it seems more than a touch insensitive to expect them to dip into their own pockets for the place as well . |