Example sentences of "seemed to be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 2 | Whilst this was not denied there seemed to be general confusion among teachers about the nature of ‘ multicultural education ’ and the nature of the school 's problems with respect to this issue . |
| 3 | There seemed to be little hope for the future , just a mundane job and low pay and fewer prospects for meeting the opposite sex once university days were over . |
| 4 | Following this there was considerable despondency amongst the committee as there seemed to be little hope for the future . |
| 5 | Finally , as summarized in table 4 , there seemed to be little interest in some of the current general matters of concern in education . |
| 6 | In 1940 the United Kingdom , with no defences , faced what seemed to be certain invasion by hostile armed forces . |
| 7 | ‘ I mean , they seemed to be incompetent morons like you . |
| 8 | I remember thinking that there seemed to be one hell of a lot of buttons on the average Mother Christmas costume . |
| 9 | There seemed to be two areas of subject-matter where quadraphonics might have an artistic advantage , drama and wildlife recording , so it seemed very sensible when the first ‘ quadraphonic ’ record of birdsong was announced . |
| 10 | There seemed to be genuine concern in the question . |
| 11 | Many of the projects arose not just because they seemed to be suitable topics for academic research , but at the direct instigation of teachers or sometimes students . |
| 12 | By the 1840s there seemed to be clear evidence for a sequence of development in the history of life on earth . |
| 13 | Me neither , but it seemed to be open season on Angels . |
| 14 | Even the Secret Committee had a reason for allowing the Rescript to be promulgated : by committing itself to a relatively modest programme of reform , the government seemed to be discouraging radicals from pressing their case . |
| 15 | A few weeks earlier , on 10 April 1946 , a circular from General Valluy , at that time d'Argenlieu 's deputy in Saigon , had raised the question of a purely military operation ‘ in the scenario of a coup d'état' ; and for both sides there seemed to be obvious advantages in striking first . |
| 16 | Coming on the heels of the Ashby Report , which had lacked conviction in Tutorials and had recommended that the reference to them in grant regulations be dropped , the Board 's decision seemed to be another blow to what had traditionally been regarded as the apex of WEA work . |
| 17 | The group then recalled their own experiences with children who refused to work and how often there seemed to be another child in the family who ‘ can not do anything wrong ’ . |
| 18 | It seemed to be another fit like the last one , only worse . |
| 19 | ‘ There seemed to be some doubt in your mind about my exact gender , ’ Maggie put in drily , and he cast her an irritated look , his dark eyes running over her again as she sat facing him , her hands in the pockets of the loose shirt . |
| 20 | In all four cases where there seemed to be some knowledge of the victim before the alleged offences were committed , the cases were contested by alleging the woman 's consent . |
| 21 | There seemed to be some kind of a row going on upstairs . |
| 22 | It seemed to be some kind of ferry , because they were being poled across from one side of the canal to the other — while they remained standing , like people on a packed London bus . |
| 23 | The robes were stained and torn , but there still seemed to be some blood on the bones . |
| 24 | Next year , though , she would be twenty-five , and that seemed to be some sort of milestone . |
| 25 | There seemed to be little relation between charge and geographical location , except in Scotland and Northern Ireland , where the cost of water was low . |
| 26 | On average , however , there seemed to be little difference in the time devoted to boys and girls on each occasion . |
| 27 | In the general morass of Trinidadian political life there seemed to be little room for genuine political parties , such as the West Indian National Party , ( 1942 ) and the Caribbean Socialist Party , ( 1947 ) . |
| 28 | At this stage there seemed to be little connection between the vast experience of learning in practice within educational and training systems and learning as conceived by psychologists on the basis of laboratory experiments . |
| 29 | Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus . |
| 30 | For most of those in political life , the existing pattern of local government ( through which numbers of politicians , particularly in the Labour Party , had graduated ) was quite satisfactory and there seemed to be little point in tinkering with it . |