Example sentences of "[noun] seem [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she knew the answer , and the memory of his kiss burned with the exquisite mixture of pleasure and pain , wrenching her soul from its customary place , changing all things , so that her glance seemed to rest on a changed universe . |
| 2 | The apparition seemed to disperse into a million pieces and disappear like a killer wave in a storm . |
| 3 | Ringing the woman 's number again , she found her in , and more than ready to offer her somewhat trenchant views on the House of Commons and the way that seminal institution seemed to cling to the outmoded notion that women were an inferior breed . |
| 4 | Starkisser 's midnight-blue hull had metalflake embedded in its fibreglass so that the sleek boat seemed to scintillate with an internal and infernal dark blue light . |
| 5 | Case 2b — where none of the candidate words seem to fit with the syntactic processing of the sentence . |
| 6 | Ice creams and lollies seem to benefit from the sharp wit of its frosting . |
| 7 | After joining , the Liberals and even the Labour supporters seem to drift into the Conservative way of thinking . |
| 8 | When Batty comes back , why not preserve the current formation and make him the fifth defender , seeing as Speed seems to revel in the central midfield . |
| 9 | His olive skin seemed to glint in the soft light of the hallway ; the flat behind him was almost totally dark . |
| 10 | The sentence seemed to hang in the still air with the thin grey smoke escaping from his lips . |
| 11 | The sentence seemed to hang in the cold morning air with the whisp of vapour it had left behind . |
| 12 | The Scottish accent seemed to come from the other side of the crowd . |
| 13 | Apparently he was quite charming , but as the basis of his charm seemed to rest upon the un-startling stratagem of addressing every female he encountered by the fullest possible version of her name ( so that every Julie became a Juliana , every Dot extended to a Dorothea , all Marys became Mariana , Sues Susanna , etc . |
| 14 | A wave of cold seemed to emanate through the funereal drapery . |
| 15 | Whetton seemed to move into the All Black position more or less on the grounds of seniority and his experience of captaining Auckland . |
| 16 | A shudder seemed to run through the various sections of Legion 's disconnected bulk . |
| 17 | The wood panelling echoes slightly ; Lord Aldington 's counsel , Charles Gray QC , has a voice like a bumble-bee : a moment 's inattention and his even , well-modulated and comforting tones seem to embark on an erratic , heavy flight around the room . |
| 18 | Although the author pays lip-service to the idea of climbing as a form of meditation and the reward lying in the process rather than the achievement , the main thrust seems to lie in the opposite direction , in the acquisition of things . |
| 19 | Two broad groups seem to emerge from the known evidence ( fig. 8 ) , each with a different level of impact on the defended area itself and on the extra-mural suburbs . |
| 20 | Figure 3 shows that the highest frequency of intolerances seem to occur in the first eight weeks after completing the course of elemental diet . |
| 21 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 22 | The past few days seemed to hang like a heavy stormcloud over the room , seething with half-truths and suspicion , misunderstandings and mistakes . |
| 23 | I find that many new writers ' stories and poems seem to occur in a spatial and social vacuum : the writer launches straight into an account of action , ideas , thoughts , feelings , without giving any clear sense of where all this is taking place . |
| 24 | One thing that , that we did spend , I mean , I do n't know the Festival seems to come in an awful rush this time I suppose cos , cos |
| 25 | Morel hunters in-the-know rarely reveal the locations of good hunting grounds , and the abundance of any year 's crop seems to depend upon a great many variables such as : how cold a winter preceded , how gradually did temperatures warm from winter to spring , does the soil have adequate moisture ? |
| 26 | We could look down towards the sea , where the blue water seemed to scatter into a harmless white spray against the shore . |
| 27 | The stones in a wall seemed to ripen in the hot sunshine . |
| 28 | Because , on this occasion , the other four Great Powers seemed to agree with the Russian Foreign Minister , the crisis promised to be short-lived . |
| 29 | The phone seemed to ring for a long time . |
| 30 | But the main reason why the tide of Thatcherism seemed to ebb after the 1987 election was that its main claim to popular support , the apparent revival of the economy and the stimulus to productive growth , was beginning to lose credibility . |