Example sentences of "seemed [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 2 | They realized dimly that , for the moment at least , the Bolsheviks seemed even keener than the SRs to provoke similar disorder at all levels : and their Land Decree seemed indistinguishable from the old SR demands on behalf of the peasantry . |
| 3 | He also seemed unaware of the great progress in laying fibre optic cable around the country , mainly between cities . |
| 4 | The local authorities who approved such acts seemed unaware of the immense capital sums , not to mention years of work , that had gone into creating these libraries since their foundation in Victorian times , and their complete loss by the simple act of dispersal . |
| 5 | The writer both of that editorial and the weekly Sunday Times TV feature was an expatriate who seemed unaware of the cultural gap between the content of TVZ programmes and the environment of Zambia . |
| 6 | They slept on Amy 's bed , drank indiscriminately from any saucer of milk or tea put down for them , were remarkably docile under Timmy 's boisterous caresses and , happily , seemed content with the cheapest kind of tinned cat food . |
| 7 | His credentials seemed gold-plated for the new face of Toryism . |
| 8 | Her face seemed ageless in the dim light , and she was stifling shivers . |
| 9 | Victoria had on her nice towelling bib with a green frog on it but seemed subdued by the ceremonial atmosphere surrounding the meal : the gong and the shouting ; for she was unusually subdued , thank God . |
| 10 | Printing a section heading as a node name of the semantic net also sometimes seemed inappropriate for the printed form . |
| 11 | By assuming the political economic circumstances of this displacement as given , of course it seemed natural to the colonial administration that the condition of environmental deterioration was the fault of the cultivators themselves . |
| 12 | But it seemed many of the biggest news stories came from the world of industry , most notably , the miners ' strike . |
| 13 | She looked at the grandma , who although willing seemed full of the resigned acceptance of disaster which had ruled the women downstairs . |
| 14 | After the Suez crisis Britain had rebuilt its foreign policy around the US alliance but in 1960 the Americans seemed concerned with the rising power of the Six rather than Britain . |
| 15 | As mentioned before , Mains seemed pleased with the final choice and there have been only muted complaints from about the country — although it would be hard to be too critical 24 hours after a test was won 59–6 . |
| 16 | At the time it seemed one of the better right hands I 've ever thrown — from the shoulder , punching not at but through the target , with half-pivot that threw all my weight behind the blow . |
| 17 | In the 190s it seemed intolerable to the then bishop of Rome , Victor , that the churches in Asia Minor celebrated Easter on a different date , and to the distress of many he threatened excommunication on those who did not adopt the Roman date . |
| 18 | Instead , he developed a concept of the rule of law , drawing on aspects of both the ancient and modern conceptions , which seemed incompatible with the extensive use of these governmental powers . |
| 19 | It took a long time because Louise kept interrupting with questions that Constance could n't answer and which seemed irrelevant beside the tremendous fact that Ludovico was waiting for her and she longed to run to him . |
| 20 | A vast circle of storm clouds hugged the ground and rose towering into the air , so they seemed becalmed on the inside edge of a massive mauve funnel through the swirling walls of which Trent could make out , to the south , a thin line of greater darkness that he knew must be the rain forest bordering the Makaa River . |
| 21 | When we arrived the carp were present all over from our margin to the far bank but as the time went on the fish moved out and only seemed catchable from the far side . |
| 22 | A youth throwing away a crisp packet was fined more than £1,000 , but uncontrollable young people in care seemed immune to the judicial process . |
| 23 | She too seemed unaffected by the snarling posturing of her boy 's hostile and much favoured Canadian opponent Donovan ‘ Razor ’ Ruddock . |
| 24 | The rise in cinema admissions and consolidation of the industry 's structure meant that , when the restrictions on subject matter were lifted at the end of the war , filmmakers could fully stretch their imaginations on stories that seemed relevant to the post-war mood . |
| 25 | She seemed surprised by the new topic , perhaps relieved . |
| 26 | It was the third time the boy had tried to get past him , and , as before , he seemed surprised by the old man 's quickness ; shocked that , whichever way he moved , Tuan Ti Fo was there , blocking his way . |
| 27 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 28 | And the chamber seemed darker beyond the elapsed time . |