Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THE 1960s a mystique surrounded hallucinogenic drugs like LSD because they seemed to enable users to alter their perceptions of reality , and explore their ‘ inner minds ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I sit in Lancaster , ’ Newton wrote in that heavy copper-plate hand which seemed to plant sarcasm and doubt on the page by the very nature of its forceful , butting lettering , ‘ like a hen on eggs gone cold . |
| 3 | She seemed to sense Lucy 's presence , and turned her head to look ; then she smiled , and Lucy 's uncertainty diminished . |
| 4 | After a few minutes , Blanche seemed to sense Dexter 's baleful mood , checked her watch and stood up to go . |
| 5 | John seemed to sense death approaching . |
| 6 | The suggestion seemed to agitate Juliette still further . |
| 7 | This seemed to confirm Watkins ' findings in Herefordshire and the Welsh border of the particular significance of Scots pine as a ley mark point . |
| 8 | During a brief visit on Oct. 12 , 1989 , as part of a tour of Latin America , President François Mitterrand of France stated that the break up of the International Coffee Agreement ( ICA — see above ) " seemed to confirm Colombia 's isolation in its fight against drug trafficking " . |
| 9 | Somehow Steen 's voice seemed to confirm Jacqui 's view . |
| 10 | Lady Monmouth was amusing and clever , and seemed to like Dorian Gray very much . |
| 11 | Oh oh oh not really , but it was when this chanting came in that the young fellas seemed to like gangs in the crowd and this when all the trouble started |
| 12 | Isobel seemed to like danger at second hand , he thought , and wondered again why she should come . |
| 13 | Everyone seemed to like Fergie ; she was so natural , so unspoilt , and she brought a breath of fresh air wafting through the corridors of Court . |
| 14 | Professor Robin Murray , of the Institute of Psychiatry and King 's College Hospital , London , told the annual British Association Science Festival , at Keele University , Staffordshire , the flu risk to unborn babies seemed to affect girls rather that boys following four studies he had carried out in England . |
| 15 | However , it was not so much the fact that his life had ended which seemed to affect Maxine . |
| 16 | Its slightly more liberal ethos seemed to affect Krupskaia , for when she first went to work in the People 's Commissariat of Education ( Narkompros ) after the revolution , she stressed the need for independence from central management by intellectuals . |
| 17 | None of these symptoms seemed to affect Malpass . |
| 18 | Just as important , it seemed to galvanise John Major . |
| 19 | The realisation finally seemed to hit Fairham . |
| 20 | Although Lagrange seemed to cherish hopes that his work would show the way to the solution of the general quintic the results obtained indicated a distinct possibility that there might be no corresponding formula in the case of equations of degree greater than 4 , and a supposed proof of this was given by Ruffini in 1799 . |
| 21 | A classic study on short term verbal recall seemed to show that reading highly emotional words impairs memory , a finding which at the time seemed to support notions of repression . |
| 22 | People whove seen the previous few matches all seemed to agree Rocky faded badly and as a result was exposing Kelly a little too much . |
| 23 | Having played his last major card without success , de Gaulle 's strategy seemed to lose coherence . |
| 24 | In the face of the self-confident panache of the new monetarists , the Policy Studies group , and the apostles of the market-place , significant numbers of British intellectuals seemed to lose heart . |
| 25 | ‘ The first set was incredible — it was like a final — but after I got that set David seemed to lose heart a bit , ’ said Corsie later . |
| 26 | Without Samson 's monumental strength , the smiths seemed to lose ground . |
| 27 | Miss Harker seemed to lose height . |
| 28 | Once she realised what you were up to and told you where to go , you seemed to lose interest in her career . |
| 29 | His robot attacker fled away , and seemed to lose interest in Lexandro . |
| 30 | He seemed to lose interest after that . |