Example sentences of "seemed [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electroencephalogram ( EEG ) seemed for a while to carry the secret of the soul in its multiple waveforms . |
| 2 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 3 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 4 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 5 | During the long ministry of Lord North ( 1770–82 ) he seemed for a time to have achieved this objective . |
| 6 | The County Associations which were then formed to demand a widening of the suffrage and a redistribution of Parliamentary seats , and the General Association , a substitute Parliament , or anti-Parliament , in which some of them proposed to combine , seemed for a time to threaten drastic and violent constitutional changes . |
| 7 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |
| 8 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 9 | It almost seemed for a moment as if he would come over to the table and speak , but then he turned away , looking rather puzzled and began to order his tea . |
| 10 | They might have exchanged , again , the people of their two schools , but to Kate these people seemed for the moment irrelevant . |
| 11 | Ashenden shrugged , and seemed for the moment somewhat less at ease . |
| 12 | ‘ He was almost certainly lying , ’ Sergei said , ‘ but it seemed worth a try . ’ |
| 13 | A friend of a friend had recently married through Dateline so she thought it seemed worth a try . |
| 14 | Luce debated stopping and having a showdown but , chickening out , she told herself it hardly seemed worth the hassle . |
| 15 | So essential did this communication seem to the West Midlands survey respondents , that the repetition that it would inevitably entail for the manager , as different volunteers come in each day , still seemed worth the effort . |
| 16 | Corman 's ALP had already turned it down because although they liked the idea of another biker film , the prospect of Hopper — bearing in mind his recent reputation — bringing in the picture without problems hardly seemed worth the gamble . |
| 17 | All the 30-something women we knew then seemed about the limit beyond which you went into suits and Burberry raincoats . |
| 18 | Somehow time , which in the Europe I had left was always being talked about as ‘ of the essence ’ , seemed of no account in this part of the world . |
| 19 | It was a quaint and arcane gesture , and seemed of a piece with Ace 's sometimes archaic and obscure phrases . |
| 20 | Darwin seemed near a solution in the first edition of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex , but by the second edition he had decided that it was a problem best left ‘ for the future ’ . |
| 21 | I decided not to , when you seemed against the idea . |
| 22 | For a start , Matthew had not slept well , lying awake in his bed with what seemed like every pulse in his body hammering away with the insistence of a drumbeat . |
| 23 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 24 | Our day out to the beach now seemed like a dream . |
| 25 | In the morning , as I walked again among the modest , secluded women in the town bazaars , the vision of the night seemed like a dream . |
| 26 | The solitude seemed like a release and a blessing . |
| 27 | It seemed like a sea change . |
| 28 | ‘ It seemed like a message from a man . ’ |
| 29 | I would go out of my way to crunch on crisp , mustardy jellyfish ; an oily , tissuey-textured sea-slug , slipped into a congee of boiled rice , was my idea of a hearty breakfast ; and the pig , from the brains to the balls ( of the feet ) seemed like a gourmet 's theme-park . |
| 30 | To me the mist seemed like a veil of a moslem bride that is used not to hide but to reveal a subtler beauty to the lover . |