Example sentences of "seem to be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the house no longer seemed to be on the defensive , she realised as she parked the car . |
| 2 | Their idea seemed to be on the right track but the quantities of helium were never going to fill an airship . |
| 3 | During the period between the Fascist ascendancy of 1934 and the collapse of Mosley 's hopes in March 1937 , Joyce 's personal life had undergone a change which seemed to be for the better . |
| 4 | The coverage seemed to be for the exclusive benefit of the Tory Party . |
| 5 | Colonel Peter Young was a popular officer , well liked by everyone , always seemed to be of the same temperament , in action , or sitting at the bar in a country inn . |
| 6 | Both photographs seemed to be of the same occasion . |
| 7 | They always seemed to be beyond the next corner or in the next room . |
| 8 | But pistachios are no longer the sure-fire success they seemed to be in the 1960s , when Aegina 's soil and air produced nuts of a quality nobody appeared to be able to match . |
| 9 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , he was very generous to all his friends , but we always seemed to be in the wrong line . ’ |
| 11 | I cited that Korea seemed to be in the same position as China in 1947–1948 ; that the Chinese officials also continuously stated that they could put a stop to inflation at any time . |
| 12 | He began to wonder if he aught to ring for the police but no one else seemed to be in the slightest bit worried . |
| 13 | Their main pleasure seemed to be in the beautiful garments they made for each other and for their children . |
| 14 | Lesley-Jane Decker had been on stage at the time of the shooting , so , unless she had brought in a hired killer , she seemed to be in the clear . |
| 15 | The transcendental practices of the Australia Aborigines seem to be of the same order as those of the Tibetan practices , even if not so highly developed . |
| 16 | In practice some rifts seem to be of the active type whereas others seem to have been initiated by passive rifting , although in many cases there is no consensus as to whether specific rifts are active or passive . |
| 17 | Both our customers and our prospects are feeling the squeeze , and we generally seem to be at the painful end of it . |
| 18 | These arrangements of Bayezid II's seem to be among the earliest occurrences of , and may well have helped to set the pattern for , a number of joint muderrisliks and muftiliks which appear in the course of the sixteenth century , many of which were at a relatively high level in the hierarchy . |
| 19 | The main differences between Italian Fascism and Nazi Germany seem to be in the greater degree of autonomy of industry and the failure of Mussolini to unite the middle classes and the working classes even superficially . |
| 20 | All his contacts seem to be within the Coptic community . |
| 21 | It seems to be on the same lines do n't it ? |
| 22 | For the best results , exact control of the adhesion seems to be critical but when this is achieved , as it seems to be in the best natural and artificial composite materials , very excellent combinations of strength and toughness are created . |
| 23 | American Julie Parisien , the top-ranked slalom racer , is strong in three events and seems to be in the best condition of her career . |
| 24 | Amer Midani , the Lebanese-born businessman and United director who has a 15 per cent stake , seems to be in the strongest position to take over if Knighton 's bid falls through . |
| 25 | ‘ Everyone else seems to be in the same position . |
| 26 | The tiborium itself is thought to be a masterpiece of Renaissance art , although it hardly seems to be in the same class as that on Santa Maria delle Grazie . |
| 27 | During the 1960s these two sea-adventures were republished for young readers in Penguin 's Puffin division ; there was more confidence then than there seems to be in the eighties that the accessibility of Masefield 's story lines and his energetic prose would justify offering to capable readers in the early and mid-teens novels written for adults . |
| 28 | In the schematic dating we apply to this period it seems to be around the last century of the second millennium that an upward turn becomes traceable , notably in pottery and specifically the pottery of Athens . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , in the last decades is that literary studies , perhaps especially classical studies , which may seem to be at the other extreme of the academic spectrum from the sciences , have shown themselves more self confident in the use of computers than history has done , even though history is closer to the social sciences which have for long been acclimatized to quantification and computerization . |
| 30 | Sellars sadly does n't seem to be in the first team at Newcastle . |