Example sentences of "seem [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this relaxed , sun-dappled atmosphere of banyan trees , velvet sand and wide horizons , the Maldives seem like a lost corner of the globe , waiting to be stumbled across by some shipwrecked mariner . |
| 2 | You seem like a nice guy . |
| 3 | ‘ This helps make the gallery seem like a friendly place to them , rather than just somewhere other people go . ’ |
| 4 | The question really was , did being alone with me on a boat seem like a good idea or not ? " |
| 5 | Sitting up , he was overcome with one of those slow yawns that seem like a prolonged agony , which he stopped with his hand , murmuring , when sufficient oxygen had been inhaled , that he was not yet properly awake . |
| 6 | As early as 1950 Norbert Weiner had predicted that automation would result , within twenty-five years , in a depression that would make that of the 1930s seem like a pleasant joke , and in 1965 an Oxford University professor was quoted as saying at one of the OECD conferences : |
| 7 | You seem like a respectable sort of a lady , really , but I ca n't have people laughing like that and screaming and abusing in my pub . |
| 8 | They seem like a private club of legal beings with a special language and their own incomprehensible codes of behaviour ; a body of disinterested arguers , thriving like malevolen parasites on human tragedy and avarice . |
| 9 | Side Two 's opener , ‘ The Slim ’ , typifies Sugar 's ability to slow things down , with a grinding , winding melody that backs Mould as he tumbles through a drawn-out flashback nightmare , which makes temporary amnesia seem like a healthy option . |
| 10 | It 's dated flailing and useless , hardly crucial or fresh , but the real problem is : how can you conceivably make trudging through the wet leaves and puddles to your local primary school , in order to tick a piece of paper in a polling booth , seem like a glamorous and dynamic act of self-realization , or even solidarity ? |
| 11 | Under Stephen and his successor , Djuradj Branković ( 1427–56 ) , Serbia enjoyed a ‘ silver age ’ , in which Serbian national culture displayed a vigour and intensity which seem like a brave defiance in the face of the overwhelming pressures from all sides which led in 1459 to the extinction of the Serbian state . |
| 12 | Her contribution to the Conservative cause , which handed Major his victory , was to make John Major seem like a social democrat . |
| 13 | ‘ Even as angels go , these seem a little unconvincing , airborne cherubs which seem like a bad special effect or a funerary monument that 's suddenly taken flight ’ . |
| 14 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |
| 15 | How different things seem with a little light on the subject , I mused . |