Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was standing in the doorway , his lean frame clad in a loose-fitting tawny-coloured suit that seemed to emphasise the taut muscle that lay beneath it . |
| 2 | The later theory of instincts , which included the death instincts , as well as the sexual instincts which were retained from the first formulation , seemed to solve the theoretical difficulties that arose with the first theory of instincts . |
| 3 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 4 | Claudine suddenly seemed to notice the flustered looks that Jenna still had , although Alain was as cool as if his heated lovemaking had never happened . |
| 5 | Those who most confidently claim to speak for British interests sometimes seem to have the least confidence that those interests are likely to prevail . |
| 6 | These seem to have the curious property that , although they can move fairly freely within a hadron , it appears to be impossible to obtain just one quark on its own ; they always come either in groups of three ( like the proton or neutron ) or in pairs consisting of a quark and antiquark ( like the pi meson ) . |
| 7 | So here is mystery with a vengeance — we seem to have the attractive idea that Christ died for you and me , he went to the utmost limit for us , he gave everything away , and in some mysterious and tantalizing fashion he took my sin and yours upon himself , but we can not say to whom the price was paid ! |
| 8 | This ahistorical theory of confirmation would seem to have the unappealing consequence that innumerable observations made on falling stones , planetary positions , etc. will constitute worthwhile scientific activity insofar as they will lead to increases in the estimate of the probability of the truth of the law of gravitation . |