Example sentences of "seem that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that Sophie was best at turning up when his guard was down . |
| 2 | It had n't been the greatest operation anyway , because it seemed that Jenner and Professor Liawski had some big argument around ‘ seventy-nine . ’ |
| 3 | Nutty switched her attention once more to the deep end , where it seemed that Nails was giving Jazz a compulsory lesson in turns . |
| 4 | To environmentalists — and an increasing number of foreign foresters and ecologists — it seemed that Britain too had all the signs of forest decline . |
| 5 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 6 | It seemed that Britain was wealthy enough for some redistribution to be possible , as , arguably , it had not been in the 1830s , and that voluntary effort had achieved little in this respect . |
| 7 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for Labour the Korean War by 1951 was having an adverse effect on the British economy and precipitated another balance of payments of crisis just after it seemed that Britain could dispense with Marshall Aid . |
| 9 | Biograph , it seemed , was giving the public a new social cinema and as the years went by it seemed that D. W. Griffith in particular was just taking the main problems of American society as his subject-matter . |
| 10 | Those insults were virtually meaningless nonsense — yet at least it seemed that d'Arquebus had been stung . |
| 11 | The loss of Dreadnought meant yet another meeting of the boatowners on Lord Jim , more relaxed in atmosphere than the former one , because it seemed that Mrs Blake was away , but hushed by the nature of Willis 's misfortune . |
| 12 | To some observers , it seemed that Laura 's provoking passivity acted as a stimulant for Bernard 's aggression . |
| 13 | It seemed that decades of national decline had been reversed by Conservative government since 1979 . |
| 14 | When he had time to take account of the situation , it seemed that Bill Oldenshaw had fallen under the train at the crossing and been killed outright . |
| 15 | There was a moment when it seemed that General Powell was commanding the crowd . |
| 16 | It seemed that Morrissey was asserting his power over the media in order to make a point . |
| 17 | With players like Stephen Martin , Kenny Morris , Billy McConnell , Alan Roper , Geoff Clarke , Stephen Smyrl and Martin Deery all sidelined for various reasons , it seemed that Holywood would n't seriously test the visitors in the first of their three weekend games against leading Ulster opposition . |
| 18 | When Andy Mutch scored a deserved equaliser for Wolves five minutes from time , it seemed that Ipswich manager John Lyall 's pep talk at the interval had been to no avail . |
| 19 | It seemed that boys were entrusted with the majority of off-task or on-task jobs , including taking absence slips to the office . |
| 20 | So , it seemed that Scotland had got rid of her usurper , after a bare three months . |
| 21 | He did not attempt the removal of the pyjama jacket , but suddenly stood up and began to pull the red trousers down and get them off ; and it seemed that Patrick , shifting very slightly , assisted the operation , his eyes now moving in awareness of what Marcus was doing . |
| 22 | It almost seemed that Karen had a need to know what made Jessica tick , what drove her moods from hilarity to gloom and why . |
| 23 | He suggested that , given the nature of the wounds , it seemed that knuckledusters and razors had been used on members of the public . |
| 24 | When they kissed , it seemed that Tessa had embraced a mirror image very slightly distorted by the glass . |
| 25 | It seemed that Jason was keen to distance himself from the increasing danger of being known as the future Mr Minogue . |
| 26 | It seemed that Sandie Shaw 's emotive handling of the task was fired by an intense and intelligent hatred towards the attitudes of performers involved in modern pop music . |
| 27 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |
| 28 | It seemed that Wilkins , and other Copernicans , allowed certain astronomical discoveries to confirm the truth of Scripture , but they would not let Scripture pronounce on matters of astronomy . |
| 29 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 30 | For a time it seemed that Christie 's had the inside track — they offered the Sharp apartment for sale in the late autumn of 1992 . |