Example sentences of "[noun] seem [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Bahia Paraiso tragedy seemed of little consequence compared with the disaster which occurred in northern polar waters only weeks later . |
| 2 | The young men she rustled up as marriage candidates seemed to Algy to be all one person with different haircuts , well-born dullards on their way into industry who exclaimed ‘ I say , how jolly enterprising ! ’ when they heard that Algy was a scene painter , and who surprised her by still dancing foxtrots and rumbas that she thought extinct . |
| 3 | At the time his outspokenness seemed like refreshing honesty . |
| 4 | He did n't pause to admire the car ( the car seemed like new : great ! ) but hurried inside , flinging off his coat with a hot gasp and making a lunge for the phone . |
| 5 | The ‘ winter of discontent ’ and the subsequent return of the Conservatives for what proved to be a very lengthy period of rule seemed to most observers to mark a profound watershed . |
| 6 | Today 's recession , and many banks ' multibillion pound provisions , make Crocker 's losses seem like small change . |
| 7 | It 's just that after four long , very long , years , a little light seems at last to be discernible through the gloom . |
| 8 | In those families with a clear genetic link hypertrophic cardiomyopathy seems in many to be inherited as a dominant gene with a high degree of penetrance . |
| 9 | He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires . |
| 10 | By the last two or three decades of the nineteenth century the railway stations of the Eastern states were analogous to those of the imperial metropoles in Europe , while those of the West seemed like colonial stations . |
| 11 | The ability to quantify androgyny on the BSRI seemed to some 1970s North American feminists to suggest and even to facilitate an escape from oppressive aspects of dominant discourses of femininity and masculinity , like guilt and dependency , and violence and insensitivity , which would at the same time retain femininity 's positive social , emotional characteristics , and the valuable self-confidence and achievement motivation commonly associated with masculinity . |
| 12 | Panama seemed to many like a re-enactment of Hawaiian history : the States had needed a reason to take over and it had found one . |
| 13 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 14 | British companies had to build their lines between revolutions and had to be prepared to accept the damage to bridges , track , and stations caused by civil war and insurgency , but the opportunities presented in the wheat-growing and stock-rearing of Argentina , the coffee , rubber , and minerals of Brazil , the gold , silver , copper , nitrates , and sheep-farming of Chile , the cattle of Uruguay , and the sugar , coffee , cocoa , tobacco , cotton , and cattle of Venezuela seemed at that time limitless . |
| 15 | The question seemed of great importance to her . |
| 16 | Knocking the arrow seemed after all not to have been the ultimate disaster . |
| 17 | Ultranationalist thinking on the rural sector seemed in many ways only a more radical version of official views . |
| 18 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 19 | The diaries of a twenty-two-year-old French Second Lieutenant , Roger Campana , who had already had one spell at Verdun , provide one glimpse of how the savage formlessness of the battle seemed to those caught up in it . |
| 20 | They appeared twenty-four hours after the event , but then no one back in England seemed in much of a hurry for results . |
| 21 | But even the problems of these companies seem to pale into insignificance compared with those of Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG . |
| 22 | If filmed destruction to draw attention to expendability seems to hard to bear , there was one other radical solution canvassed at Eindhoven and that was terminal neglect . |
| 23 | Since then the condition of housing in rural areas seems on average to have reached a higher standard than that in many urban areas , even where renovation or renewal policies have been conducted . |
| 24 | Whether these analysts commit or escape the individualistic fallacy is of little consequence because an exclusively therapeutic orientation has meant that the cultural , phylogenetic dimension of Freud 's work seems of little relevance to them . |
| 25 | To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles . |
| 26 | ( This may indeed reflect the fact that such adjectives seem in some way to constitute a more sophisticated manipulation of language than any we have seen in the adjectives discussed before ) . |
| 27 | Not of course that the comparisons seemed in any way apposite at the time . |
| 28 | The boulders which God had flung about at the time of the creation had , to Lydia 's eyes , a patriarchal air , and the pebbles which littered the stream seemed like little children confidently at rest in this fatherly presence . |
| 29 | The coroner seemed in good spirits . |
| 30 | Curtis ' incipiently multiracial ideas seemed at first rather startling to some other members of the Round . |