Example sentences of "seem [prep] [be] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apocalyptic visions of monsters seemed to be realized in these terrible eyes and terrible jaws . |
| 2 | Goodness knows what was happening to her , but she seemed to be trapped in some thick mental fog . |
| 3 | Melford , now he had tasted blood , seemed to be revelling in some private joke . |
| 4 | More and more fruits they seemed to be importing in those days , all colours . |
| 5 | His heart seemed to be beating in some huge dry place an echoing cavern . |
| 6 | These seem to be found in all the developed Western societies , though the dating differs |
| 7 | He was vaguely surprised that what sense of loss he did have seemed to be connected in some way with Cyprus . |
| 8 | His smiles , his glances , his gentle intimacies … somehow they had all seemed to be pointing in that direction . |
| 9 | Of the previously described POU genes only oct-1 seems to be expressed in most tissues . |
| 10 | The second is the traditional binary distinction between ‘ sound-change proper ’ and ‘ borrowing ’ : this distinction , or something similar to it , still seems to be assumed in many orthodox accounts . |
| 11 | Indeed , many do , because Giardia , like Candida , seems to be linked in some way to food sensitivity . |
| 12 | One correspondent notes that , having gone through a period of using much folk music and guitar accompaniment , ‘ this phase seems to be declining in some places ’ . |
| 13 | If we can identify style markers , we shall rule out , simply by ignoring them , whole areas of the English language which do not seem to be exploited in any unusual way in a particular text . |