Example sentences of "[noun sg] seem [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pitch dark everywhere , and the whirr of the ceiling fan seemed to fill the silent bedroom . |
| 2 | The headline seemed to fill the stormy horizon . |
| 3 | Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces . |
| 4 | Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings . |
| 5 | Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings . |
| 6 | Rev. Levitt 's antipathy sprang from the fact that when he was ill or needed a break in the non-stop Day of Atonement services it was Percy Lovitch who deputised for him , his tall corpulent figure seeming to fill the small pulpit and his exquisite tenor voice quite outshining Rev. Levitt 's pedestrian baritone . |
| 7 | He pointed at Blossom , and in truth the unkind description seemed to fit the bony creature standing between her sleek neighbours . |
| 8 | FitzAlan shifted one hand to the nape of her neck , holding her still , while that probing gaze seemed to penetrate the very depths of her soul . |
| 9 | This augmentation seemed to give the right behaviour on the texts that SPAR processed . |
| 10 | Methodism seemed to encircle the little town before it entered it . |
| 11 | Einstein 's general theory of relativity seems to govern the large-scale structure of the universe . |
| 12 | Bureaucracy seems to block the Chinese sources , which with their huge mule farms must have a great deal of information . |
| 13 | The whole Soviet record seemed to confirm the undemocratic origins of Bolshevik power in Russia : glasnost and perestroika suggest that the regime itself is on the point of admitting as much . |
| 14 | But my ignorance was not only mental torture , but my body seemed to suffer the intensest agony . |
| 15 | The stern words and punishment seemed to have the desired effect . |
| 16 | Even though he may pay lip service to the idea that there are probably many breaks not yet discovered , nevertheless almost every geologist seems to accept the above doctrine , albeit subconsciously . |
| 17 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 18 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
| 19 | Largely as a result of Wedd 's enthusiasm , I found myself becoming irresistibly attracted to the Scots pine — the solitary tree as well as the clump — not just as a potential ley mark point , but as something in its own right , I was not alone : legend seems to confirm the special nature of the pine . |
| 20 | Unlike grommets , adenoidectomy seems to modify the underlying pathophysiology of chronic otitis media with effusion — making it our initial surgical procedure of choice in cases of severe , persistent effusion . |
| 21 | Also , the drug seems to inhibit the viral DNA polymerase enzyme much more effectively than it does the DNA polymerase used by the cell to copy its own DNA . |
| 22 | Antiarrhythmic drugs — Among type 1a antiarrhythmic drugs , quinidine seems to have the greatest potential for causing torsades de pointes and is estimated to produce syncope in 0.5–4.0% of patients as a result of this tachyarrhythmia . |
| 23 | Terror seemed to permeate the very air . |
| 24 | One of them squeaked but neither woman seemed to notice the irritating sound . |
| 25 | The strategy seems to ignore the Open Software Foundation 's RPC-based Distributed Computing Environment , which opts for the Mach microkernel . |
| 26 | This flaw seems to explain the odd network in the crucial option A — the one Serpell says should make a profit . |
| 27 | The Pill seemed to symbolise the free woman — sexy and single , and so it seemed to prefigure the women 's liberation movement 's quest for pleasure and independence . |
| 28 | As the bikes bowled down the dark lane , so the circle of the sky seemed to wheel the other way . |
| 29 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 30 | His voice seemed to fill the few inches ' space between them , bringing them even closer . |