Example sentences of "[noun pl] seemed [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iranians seemed to represent an increasingly important part of the equation . |
| 2 | Apart from the bike messengers , that was , and these were easy to distinguish because they were young and wiry and bizarrely dressed , and their eyes seemed to have a certain glaze on them from being on a permanent adrenaline high . |
| 3 | The beautiful eyes seemed to have the same dark depths as those of her brother but they did not have his sharp , probing gaze . |
| 4 | He answered the door himself , and she was painfully aware that once again his eyes seemed to study every part of her . |
| 5 | In one of my close acquaintances at B.P. , rationing and shortages seemed to effect an eccentric metamorphosis . |
| 6 | Her lips seemed to speak the words automatically , while her mind raced ahead . |
| 7 | Her words seemed to break a spell . |
| 8 | The way her heart seemed to squeeze inside her chest , the way her pulses seemed to skip a beat whenever Roman watched her like that , was deeply disturbing . |
| 9 | Subjects seemed to provide No responses slower than giving Yes responses initially , but No response reaction time increased at a greater rate tending to converge with reaction time for Yes responses in larger memory sets of about four digits onwards . |
| 10 | When displayed in the great cities of the east , and in the capitals of Europe , the larger dinosaurs seemed to confirm the superiority of modern industrial society by showing how the world had been conquered both in space and time . |
| 11 | All the old delusions seemed to stain the air . |
| 12 | Ones with numerous branches seemed to dominate the earlier rocks , ones with fewer branches were later , while in rocks we would now recognize as Silurian and early Devonian , forms with but a single branch ( or stipe ) were abundant . |
| 13 | Yeah I think they had their own little meetings in various pubs or whatever after our meetings , and certainly the management in one of the quarries seemed to have a lot of information about what went on in our lodge meetings because of various members of this clique , I think we were all fairly sure that they would be returning to work , it was just when that was the crunch . |
| 14 | The Proximity of the factory and its computers seemed to charge the Worm . |
| 15 | And that too seems related to the solidarities of kinship and to the training in respect which comes with belonging to a lineage : in a sense , both cadres and ordinary Libyans seemed to share the assumption that loyalties of descent and domesticity were more important than differences of opinion . |
| 16 | The arenas hired for these meetings seemed to match the modern creed of the new popular movement . |
| 17 | The Pakistanis seemed to find the answers to all these questions a vehement ‘ yes ’ . |
| 18 | In those early days they were expected to go to chapel every morning ; bells seemed to announce every change in the timetable . |
| 19 | Even as the flames seemed to deepen the blackness around them , the light gave comfort and a sense of security . |
| 20 | The gangway lamps seemed to give no light , only add further to the gloom of the dusk . |
| 21 | Yet local authorities seemed to exhibit a universal lack of interest in developing alternative services to the mental hospitals , even when given sizeable subsidies . |
| 22 | The university authorities seemed to trust the students . |
| 23 | The authorities seemed to adopt a dual approach to the anniversary ; on the one hand they launched a massive security operation in the city and detained a number of potential trouble makers , but on the other hand they attempted to portray an image of leniency by releasing groups of pro-democracy activists who had been arrested in 1989 . |
| 24 | The films made from ‘ Angry ’ texts seemed to mark a similarly definitive rejection of the previous orthodoxies , with Brief Encounter acquiring an unenviable figurehead status as the paradigmatic sexless , middle-class , British film — hence the scorn of the audience that contained Raymond Durgnat . |
| 25 | The grounded barges seemed to watch the Waalhaven , as prisoners watch the free . |
| 26 | Although many London pubs seemed to look the same when he first walked in , Dexter enjoyed collating the differences that set one apart from another . |
| 27 | The Austro-Marxists seemed to carry the argument so far into the nationalist camp that only the distinction between the cultural and the economic preserved internationalism . |
| 28 | As she more than once said , our letters over the years seemed to reveal a shockingly high mortality among our friends . |
| 29 | Public choice theory arose from the fact that , although many welfare economists were concerned to examine the phenomenon of ‘ market failure ’ , very few economists seemed to show an interest in applying their techniques to institutions other than the market ; and , in particular , to political institutions . |
| 30 | Many organisations seemed to have an in-built reluctance to defend their actions or even to provide a constructive and forceful image . |