Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another splendid fellow was A.C.K. Kermode who taught " Theory of Flight " which seemed to embrace in a single formula , at least to me , the entire majesty of flight . |
| 2 | He crossed the room then slowly lowered himself to his knees before the great tablet , conscious of how the gold leaf of the Ywe Lung seemed to flow in the wavering light of the candles ; how the red lacquer of the background seemed to burn . |
| 3 | The moon was high overhead — a bright , full moon that seemed to float in the dark mirror of the water . |
| 4 | He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species . |
| 5 | He seemed to engage in a continuous carezza with himself . |
| 6 | While Vincente was there , glowering over you , radiating fitness and willpower , the ball seemed to behave in a dramatic way , as though fitted with miniature jet rockets . |
| 7 | They seemed to glow in the flickering green-gold gold light , as if embraced by a holy nimbus . |
| 8 | Kenilworth was very different from Warwick ; a great red sandstone ruin that almost seemed to glow in the curious half-light as the storm clouds rolled nearer . |
| 9 | Her long blonde hair , freshly washed , seemed to glow in the dull light from the chandeliers . |
| 10 | Around her neck , the white-on-white semi-circle of scar tissue seemed to glow in the dim light , like something itself luminous . |
| 11 | The sentence seemed to hang in the still air with the thin grey smoke escaping from his lips . |
| 12 | That last dangerous statement seemed to hang in the sunlit air between them for a very long time . |
| 13 | The sentence seemed to hang in the cold morning air with the whisp of vapour it had left behind . |
| 14 | His olive skin seemed to glint in the soft light of the hallway ; the flat behind him was almost totally dark . |
| 15 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 16 | The stones in a wall seemed to ripen in the hot sunshine . |
| 17 | Although she showed little interest in my academic life — her energies were spent in the pursuit of foxes and Guards officers — she was always brimful of common sense on every subject under the sun , not to mention having constant contact with a string of eligible young men who seemed to arrive in a never-ending convoy at the front door of 97 Chelsea Terrace . |
| 18 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 19 | Every muscle on his great wide beefy back seemed to move in a different direction . |
| 20 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 21 | In contrast , lack of public concern , the absence of legislation and departmental procedures , and a general lack of professional concern seemed to conspire in the opposite direction with regard to this elderly woman . |
| 22 | " You never seem to appear in the same gown twice running . |
| 23 | Mozart 's work is exquisitely crafted : the instruments seem to engage in a continuous dialogue by turns thoughtful and considered , passionately enraptured ( as in the hauntingly beautiful C minor slow movement ) , and — in the rondo finale — playful , each soloist spurring the other on to more daring feats of imitation . |
| 24 | Fundamentally however , all objects such as ‘ chapters ’ , ‘ sections ’ , ‘ entries ’ , ‘ acts ’ and ‘ scenes ’ , ‘ cantos ’ etc. seem to behave in the same way : they are incomplete in themselves , and often nest hierarchically . |
| 25 | Every other group produces more sophisticated results than yours , your own results seem to vanish in the general feedback , and to cap it all she then shows you work which is more sophisticated than any of yours , probably containing a result which is on the A level further mathematics syllabus , and declares that it is work from mixed-ability 13 year olds ! |
| 26 | Moreover the provisions of section 2(1) ( a ) also seem to point in the same direction . |
| 27 | When Batty comes back , why not preserve the current formation and make him the fifth defender , seeing as Speed seems to revel in the central midfield . |
| 28 | One thing that , that we did spend , I mean , I do n't know the Festival seems to come in an awful rush this time I suppose cos , cos |
| 29 | Nobody , but nobody , had ever seemed to live in a boring house in the suburbs with a swing in the back garden . |
| 30 | part of that explanation seems to lie in an essential inequality between people in different places , between the ‘ hard-to-employ ’ of inner cities and the sparkling entrepreneurs of Cambridge and the M4 corridor , for instance . |