Example sentences of "[conj] seemed [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was MGM that seemed to take the whole business most seriously . |
| 4 | Maria shuddered convulsively as she felt her nipple rolled between diabolically skilled finger and thumb , the mini-spasm of ecstasy gratifying and tormenting all at once , and ultimately cruelly deceptive because it brought no resolution or peace , only an even deeper hunger that seemed to plumb the deeps of the most secret levels of self . |
| 5 | Sharpe felt the anger then ; the cold anger that seemed to slow the passage of time itself and make everything appear so very distinctly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Back on the storm-front , lightning flashed and thunder exploded in long runs that seemed to envelop the length of the mountain chain as if spread by a giant paint-roller . |
| 8 | Rather they appeared as a selection — and a selection that seemed to reflect the interests of the powerful . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was uncomfortable , and it was particularly uncomfortable in light of the faint dislike that seemed to shade the depths of those denim-dark eyes . |
| 11 | As we struggled up the hill with brambles and goose-grass snatching at our clothes there was an almighty clap of thunder together with a flash of lightning that seemed to strike the Jubilee Tower . |
| 12 | The only ball that seemed to find the pocket was the white , in a bad dream of in-offs and in-withs — plus , from Julian , a world-class in-instead , the cue-ball struck with such prodigious unintentional sidespin that after a deadened impact it ambled on grimly into the corner bag . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All irritation seemingly forgotten , he leant forward in his chair and smiled at James Grierson — one of his most stunning smiles that seemed to wipe the cruelly from his face at a stroke . |
| 16 | These highly professional artists presented popular programmes of light opera and semi-classical works that seemed to please the thousands who flocked to hear the concerts . |
| 17 | But his run-out reprieve was only one element of a pervasive suspicion that seemed to saturate the Pakistan camp . |
| 18 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 19 | She moved in a way that seemed to emphasize the body beneath the clothes , to hint at the purposes to which it might be put . |
| 20 | Nevertheless it was out of his own immediate sense of the renewal of life , his very own good news that seemed to match the eternal Good News out of Bethlehem , that Frere spoke to his congregation that Christmas . |
| 21 | Soviet and American tests with animals also found a decline in the production of red blood cells that seemed to worsen the longer the animals were in orbit . |
| 22 | He was such a strange combination , sitting there so still and enigmatic , giving absolutely nothing away , yet managing to exude a raw and infinitely disturbing male power that seemed to threaten the female in her . |
| 23 | Pamela also appeared angry and seemed to wish the therapist to speak for her , which the therapist resisted . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had duly entered the army from school , and seemed to enjoy the life . |
| 26 | The sound was louder now and seemed to fill the box . |
| 27 | As the coach swung around the mountain 's impressive edge , directly below the vast height , I looked up and seemed to see the grimly laughing face of one of the woodcarver 's gods . |
| 28 | Most of Rory 's pals in London were in the International Marxist Croup , but here he was ; wandering the hills with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister and who lived for huntin' , shootin' and fishin' ( and seemed to spend the absolute minimum amount of time in his castle with his wife ) , and who had just last year rationalised half the work force in the glass factory out of a job . |
| 29 | It put England 2-0 up and seemed to break the spirit of the world bronze medallists . |
| 30 | 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 . |