Example sentences of "seemed [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue of naturalization seemed to perplex some Libyans ; this was clear in their discussions at the Kufra Assembly and at the National Assembly which followed it . |
| 2 | But Wagner 's art , so irresistible and so much to the fore in Nietzsche 's thinking , seemed to presuppose some value other than — or in addition to — beauty : and was this not also true of Greek art , on the basis of which the theory of beauty had been largely formed ? |
| 3 | They seemed to go some way towards encapsulating the challenges that the notion of a shift of power to students holds for those immediately Involved . |
| 4 | Health information was broadcast by a much-loved Radio Doctor , whose down-to-earth advice always seemed to contain some reference to bowels . |
| 5 | The presence of United Nations troops seemed to provide some protection to the Hercules crews . |
| 6 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |
| 7 | She wanted to do things for him — it seemed to give some purpose to her life to have somebody depending even a little on her . |
| 8 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 9 | But he was glad to have them because they too seemed to offer some assurance that Amy would stay . |
| 10 | The Catholic Church seemed to offer some hope of resistance to the Nazis . |
| 11 | Furthermore , when considering what information was produced for outside agencies , the aggregation of statistics on such matters as resident dependency levels seemed to offer some potential for improvement . |
| 12 | It was an appealing idea because it at least seemed to offer some sort of progression to the work at a time when there was little or nothing written about coherent development in drama . |
| 13 | Then he seemed to get some sort of control over himself again . |
| 14 | Mind you , Richard Hannay in John Buchan 's The Thirty-Nine Steps planned his route because people were trying both to kill him and lock him up , and he still seemed to have some fun . |
| 15 | Both she and Lucy seemed to have some kind of thing for breasts . |
| 16 | He seemed to have some fellow-feeling with its weariness . |
| 17 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
| 18 | He had joined the Institute in his first year at the Establishment because at that time the organisation seemed to have some sinew to it . |
| 19 | Although the pharmacist seemed to have some trouble deciphering the prescription , and Henry had to go through a nerve-wracking pantomime of ignorance about the nature of the chemicals he required , it was n't long before he was standing once again on the doorstep of 54 Maple Drive . |
| 20 | ‘ You seemed to have some trouble with that mattress downstairs , ’ the housekeeper remarked . |
| 21 | The unit seemed to have some effect . |
| 22 | At last the ‘ special relationship ’ seemed to have some meaning , perhaps for the first time since the days of Macmillan . |
| 23 | She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless … |
| 24 | She seemed to think some kind of explanation was necessary . |
| 25 | And of course it is the sort of thing one would have told people — something special , idiosyncratic and yet not too intimate about you , and a trait in which ( naturally ) you seemed to take some pride … . ’ |
| 26 | It grieves me to say that the committee seemed to spend some time trying to denigrate the authority 's findings and to vindicate the tobacco industry . |
| 27 | In commenting on the media coverage of the Brixton riot of April 1981 , Gordon and Rosenburg ( 1989:18 ) point out that ‘ the editorial responses of most papers as distinct from their news coverage , while condemning the violence , seemed to show some awareness of the underlying causes of the rioting ’ . |
| 28 | He too seemed to feel some sense of strain , for he was too busy avoiding people to talk to her much ; when he trod , helplessly , for the fifth time upon her foot , she stopped still , and said to him , lightly , and with a sense of great daring , |