Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] seems a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My lord 's sister seems a sweet lady , ’ Ellen chattered on , pouring the warm milk into a goblet . |
| 2 | In any case , Rutter 's ridicule seems a grotesquely inappropriate response to our constructive and it now seems , prescient , suggestion made some six years before he first presented his own distinguished views on the subject of lead pollution . |
| 3 | To such critics , postmodernism 's self-reflexiveness seems a renunciation , in favour of a sterile narcissism , of the novel 's potential to shape and assimilate the world for its readers . |
| 4 | In one session he blissfully sucks the cerebral nipples of his guru ; in another , he becomes restive , greedily biting into his guru 's cortex and association areas , challenging them to yield more than milk ; in a third , offering alternative views of his own , the guru 's breast seems a source of hostility ; in a fourth ( particularly in his contest with Dr Thomas Myth-of-Mental-Illness Szasz ) , his id erupts , and he threatens to tear the errant guru limb from limb . |
| 5 | The Marshal 's daughter seems a fine young woman . |
| 6 | Tom 's world seems a lot nicer — nobody dies , they ‘ pass into spirit ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Today 's figures prove unemployment is still rising and with 29 people chasing every JobCentre vacancy in the region the Government 's promise seems a long way from materialising , ’ he said . |