Example sentences of "[noun] seem [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Case 2b — where none of the candidate words seem to fit with the syntactic processing of the sentence . |
| 3 | Ice creams and lollies seem to benefit from the sharp wit of its frosting . |
| 4 | After joining , the Liberals and even the Labour supporters seem to drift into the Conservative way of thinking . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His olive skin seemed to glint in the soft light of the hallway ; the flat behind him was almost totally dark . |
| 7 | The sentence seemed to hang in the still air with the thin grey smoke escaping from his lips . |
| 8 | The sentence seemed to hang in the cold morning air with the whisp of vapour it had left behind . |
| 9 | The Scottish accent seemed to come from the other side of the crowd . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A wave of cold seemed to emanate through the funereal drapery . |
| 12 | Whetton seemed to move into the All Black position more or less on the grounds of seniority and his experience of captaining Auckland . |
| 13 | A shudder seemed to run through the various sections of Legion 's disconnected bulk . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Figure 3 shows that the highest frequency of intolerances seem to occur in the first eight weeks after completing the course of elemental diet . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The stones in a wall seemed to ripen in the hot sunshine . |
| 19 | Because , on this occasion , the other four Great Powers seemed to agree with the Russian Foreign Minister , the crisis promised to be short-lived . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The fifth reason was that mixed feelings seemed to exist about the mass media generally and radio in particular . |
| 22 | He crossed the room then slowly lowered himself to his knees before the great tablet , conscious of how the gold leaf of the Ywe Lung seemed to flow in the wavering light of the candles ; how the red lacquer of the background seemed to burn . |
| 23 | The shock seemed to travel through the entire tree , as if that drop , that weight , that terrible dry snap became a tremor in the tap root , as if it bled into the sap . |
| 24 | Moreover , their criticism of the arbitrary nature of the bureaucracy and autocracy seemed to correspond to the widespread dissatisfaction among the provincial nobility . |
| 25 | The next three weeks were one long , continuous workday , weekdays and weekends merging together , one day seeming to flow into the next . |
| 26 | After reading this , one can not help but be puzzled that your politics and current-affairs coverage seems to start from the opposite premise and , unsurprisingly , reaches the opposite conclusions . |
| 27 | The new west seems to live by the three Ds : data , dogma and disputation . |
| 28 | Around her neck , the white-on-white semi-circle of scar tissue seemed to glow in the dim light , like something itself luminous . |
| 29 | The same inactivity seemed to apply on the wider front , with the two armies static , no assault on the fords , where opposing guardians stared at each other across two hundred yards of water . |
| 30 | It was only later when he saw that the comment seemed to centre around the sexual scene that he realized the riot would hurt the picture . |