Example sentences of "[adj] seem [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying . |
| 2 | There was also an urgency to protect and preserve while it was still possible to do so : the countryside was in change and this seemed to invigorate the various lobbies which fought for their special interest : flora , fauna , landscape , outdoor recreation and protection from development . |
| 3 | Yet of all people the British seem to take the greatest pride in suppression of emotion . |
| 4 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
| 5 | Many would argue that the idea of permissiveness has been overstated , exaggerated or misapplied , but few seem to doubt the underlying reality of this supposedly permissive Britain of the 1960s . |
| 6 | This seems to explain the early prints showing people travelling in what were little better than cattle trucks . |
| 7 | Although the US Joint Chiefs of Staff in March 1946 seemed to regard the Far East as the most likely arena for a Soviet–American collision , they agreed that Soviet expansion from its borders westward or to the south could result in a conflict with Britain into which the United States might finally be drawn . |
| 8 | These seem to have the curious property that , although they can move fairly freely within a hadron , it appears to be impossible to obtain just one quark on its own ; they always come either in groups of three ( like the proton or neutron ) or in pairs consisting of a quark and antiquark ( like the pi meson ) . |
| 9 | Thus the archaeocyathids ( or Pleospogia ) of the Cambrian , certain brachiopods and forams in the Permian and the rudistid bivalves in the Cretaceous all seem to parallel the present equator . |
| 10 | People without any education at all seem to offer the best hope . |
| 11 | Indeed western European governments in general seemed to take the same view . |
| 12 | Unfortunately even today , when people are more aware of the dangers of too much alcohol , it is often socially unacceptable to seem to refuse the convivial offer of a drink . |