Example sentences of "[pron] seemed the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only time I took off was the last week of June and the first week in July to watch Wimbledon — yes , we finally bought a TV , and a coloured one to boot , which seemed the height of posh . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that Napoleon III 's Italian policy , which seemed the prelude to a new era of French expansion , had alarmed the other European powers . |
| 3 | There seemed the suspicion of an implied threat here that Mr Crumwallis did not at all like . |
| 4 | In America he seemed the embodiment of the new age , ‘ the Bolshevik pianist ’ who played as if he had ‘ steel fingers , steel biceps , steel triceps ’ . |
| 5 | At one point , it seemed the Middlesbrough game might not go ahead because fire had badly damaged a stand and shotgun cartridges were found buried in the pitch . |
| 6 | There had recently been a very bad storm , leaving mud everywhere , and it seemed the sewers had overflowed in Saffron Hill , for the filth was worse than she had ever seen it . |
| 7 | It seemed the prince would not have a witness influenced , even by his own daughter . |
| 8 | She had expected to return home with full payment for the shoes she 'd made , but it seemed the theatre people were not too quick in settling bills , a practice they shared with the gentry . |
| 9 | The Poles filled every available truck and train with Silesian coal and sent it north ; for weeks a fine drifting cloud of coal-dust hung over Danzig and it seemed the port was to become a coal-opolis fit to rival Cardiff , the coal capital of the world . |
| 10 | It seemed the water of Undersea did n't mingle with it or wash it away . |
| 11 | At one stage , it seemed the Kuwaitis would accept no compromise by insisting that they were allowed to go on rebuilding their production to 2 million bpd . |
| 12 | ‘ Between 1987 and 1990 it seemed the sky was the limit . |
| 13 | In those early days it seemed the sky was the limit ! |
| 14 | Starting at the Cow and Calf you climbed through a Khyber Pass of crags from one ling-and-bracken horizon to another until it seemed the sky could not be far off . |
| 15 | The book described it as ‘ remote ’ , but at this distance it seemed the centre of the world ; the eye of a ferocious storm whose outer edges could never pull free ; the heart of a titan , beating like thunder ; an energy so awesome that it was dragging the very edges of the forest ever closer . |
| 16 | It seemed the kind of place in which people grew embittered . |
| 17 | So when it seemed the conversation was nearly over and , for the first time since he had known her , she appeared to have called for no reason , he was almost relieved to hear her ask , ‘ Now then , David , have you heard from him ? ’ |
| 18 | It seemed the aroma of him was growing all around her , damp and masculine , the smell of rain in a forest . |
| 19 | But it seemed the educators in question had simply failed to understand the structural rules of nonstandard grammars , and as linguists success-fully argued , their claims were meaningless . |
| 20 | Then , one week , the quietest woman in the group said : ‘ This is the only place where I can afford to be honest , ’ and somehow it seemed the healing process had begun . |
| 21 | Gordon Brown , the shadow chancellor and Labour MP for Dunfermline East , said that it seemed the decision might now be as late as May . |
| 22 | Then a green light would stab through the gloom and he 'd be roaring down the narrow concrete strip , faster and faster , holding Sugar back until it seemed the boundary fence was hurtling to meet them . |
| 23 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |
| 24 | He added that it seemed the Government had been pushed into making the decision by the major chain bookmakers , such as Ladbrokes and William Hill . |
| 25 | Thanks to Sybille two local women were hired to do extra cooking and cleaning on these occasions , when it seemed the concept of the extended family had turned the Ashleys into hoteliers . |
| 26 | It seemed the season would start happily when Mick Harford kept up the habit of scoring on his debut with a superb 84th minute strike from 20 yards which went in off the underside of the bar . |
| 27 | It seemed the family had the same feeling because a week later I had a pleasant letter from the mother . |
| 28 | It seemed the family found husbands here , and brides . |
| 29 | It seemed the weather had beaten me and that I was wasting my time . |
| 30 | Within a matter of hours it seemed the weather had changed . |