Example sentences of "[conj] seem [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the mood of despondency that seemed to shroud the whole idea of European unity in the mid-1950s , there was nevertheless a wide array of cooperative bodies in which the European democracies were involved to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 2 | But then she thought again of that motherly , homely face that seemed to radiate a simple gentleness and warmth , and she felt sure that she was being over-cautious , perhaps even slightly prejudiced in her feelings about Janice . |
| 3 | It was MGM that seemed to take the whole business most seriously . |
| 4 | He was standing in the doorway , his lean frame clad in a loose-fitting tawny-coloured suit that seemed to emphasise the taut muscle that lay beneath it . |
| 5 | Turning back to look at the door , he could see no manual locking mechanism — only a circular brass inset that seemed to need a special key . |
| 6 | Below the streets were alive with people , all of them bathed in the neon glow that seemed to fill the very air itself with multi-coloured energy . |
| 7 | The first sign that something was happening came when the interminable drumming from the countryside began to break up into two distinct and separate cadences , one deep and threatening , the other a nerve-jangling collection of notes that seemed to have no coherent structure , but somehow managed to sound rhythmic . |
| 8 | It was this manner of his , more than anything else , that seemed to have a therapeutic benefit . |
| 9 | Instead of her more bellicose approach , the somewhat more neutralist stance of the West Germans loomed larger in NATO , and indeed it was Bonn rather than London that seemed to have the closer relationship with Washington in 1989 . |
| 10 | It was inevitable that the actor that seemed to epitomise the new Hollywood of the late sixties should work with one of the most fashionable filmmakers attuned to young audiences . |
| 11 | Narcotic drugs were introduced into Colombia by foreigners , and its illegal trafficking is sustained by an ever-increasing demand in developed countries that seem to lack the political will to combat abuse . |
| 12 | At one extreme , we have theories that take the form of bold , risky conjectures , while at the other , we have theories that are cautious conjectures , making claims that seem to involve no significant risks . |
| 13 | His body expands with his height and his head overhangs his feet in a manner that seems to deny the natural laws of equilibrium . |
| 14 | All I knew about Waugh was that he was the son of the famous Evelyn , and has a reputation for the sort of scathing wit that seems to epitomise the self-appointed arbiters of literary , and more generally , artistic taste and standards . |
| 15 | Darwin is thus treated as a major figure in the history of science because he both popularized the general theory of evolution and discovered the mechanism that seems to offer the best prospect of explaining how the process works . |
| 16 | When touched by an adult mouse , a young mouse emits a special ultrasonic call that seems to have a soothing effect on the adult . |
| 17 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 18 | This went smoothly and is a great improvement but in order to create the compressed drive and double the hard disk capacity the SuperStor program took my hard disk ( drive C : ) and seemed to create a compressed drive D : it then swaps drive D and drive C so that the compressed drive is now C : The result is that I seem to be locked out of my old drive D in Rom which has one or two useful bits on — like a hardware check program . |
| 19 | Besides , they said , he could n't punch , did not like to get hit and seemed to lack a sufficient amount of killer adrenalin . |
| 20 | This architecture was adopted because it was simple to build , fitted the theoretical preconceptions of early computer scientists , and seemed to offer the greatest reliability . |
| 21 | Other Jewish families living in the warren of neighbouring streets where the rows of cramped houses confronted their twins at almost arm-stretching distance had no such suggestion of exclusiveness and seemed to encourage the natural ebullience of their inhabitants as well as confirming their more straitened circumstances . |
| 22 | The images in its head were confusing and seemed to hasten the dying feeling inside . |
| 23 | This mechanism ended in total failure when , after lengthy and various attempts to persuade several female life preparation students to give up wearing white ankle socks in favour of tights , short socks , mostly white , suddenly became very fashionable and seemed to adorn every other pair of ankles in the building . |
| 24 | However , Kenneth Clark , who replied for the government , was not encouraging and seemed to accept the pessimistic view of Neville Trotter , Conservative MP for Tyne mouth , who blamed all the problems on Korean labour costs which were only 20% of those in the UK . |
| 25 | Support for the aged warrior extended as far north as Angouleme and seemed to present a serious threat to Frankish rule in Aquitaine . |
| 26 | ‘ It was an amazing first set and winning it gave me a big boost and seemed to have the opposite effect on David , ’ said Corsie later . |
| 27 | These two assumptions , when combined with Contrast , become equivalent to Markman 's ( 1984 ) principle of Mutual Exclusivity , and seem to reflect a fundamental factor in the organization of conceptual categories — namely , categories should be organized , at least initially , in non-overlapping fashion at the same level ( see also Shipley and Kuhn , 1983 , and Clark , in preparation ) . |
| 28 | These concentrations always present a clear decrease however and seem to contradict the apparent lack of a mutant phenotype . |
| 29 | Recently-hatched dogwhelks ( plate 1b ) are found at the same level as their capsules and seem to prefer the empty cases of barnacles to the shells of living or dead mussels . |
| 30 | The bulk of this chapter has been taken up with a discussion of the relationship between the undergraduate curriculum and just two of Lawton 's eight ‘ cultural sub-systems ’ — the social and the economic although the latter has led us into areas which are a long way from the purely economic , and seems to yield a useful typology of undergraduate courses . |