Example sentences of "[pron] seem [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she sent Molly into a shadowy room which seemed at first to be empty . |
| 2 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 3 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
| 4 | The art of task analysis always is to select what does matter , reject what does not matter and separate into categories or stages something which seems at first sight to have no internal boundaries . |
| 5 | Within this simple framework of social resentment it was soon possible for him to nurture an obsessive anti-Semitism , which seems at first to have no specific origin in his emotional experience . |
| 6 | A hushed audience listened to quality singing star Joan Regan , who seemed at first a little nervous but relaxed with what must be one of her own favourites , May You Always . |
| 7 | However , things are not as simple as they seemed at first . |
| 8 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 9 | Outrageous they seem at first . |
| 10 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 11 | He seemed at first to be hyper-critical — if not disbelieving . |
| 12 | ‘ Every man 's death diminishes us , Robert , ’ he observed , ‘ and I 'm sorry that he should die now when he seemed at last to be recovering his dignity . ’ |
| 13 | It seemed at first that Hepworth , too , might make a telling contribution when he began with three maidens , in the course of which he comprehensively bowled Pearson . |
| 14 | But when Felicity arrived , three days later , it seemed at first glance as if she had lost every atom of her old charm . |
| 15 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 16 | It seemed at first glance that Louise was wearing a turban ; she had saved her day 's ration of flour and had made a poultice of it for a boil which had erupted on her temple ; her other boils seemed to be growing slightly better . |
| 17 | At the end of a quarter of a mile of rough track it seems on first sight to be a typically humble and remote farmhouse , with its low and unobtrusive policies almost growing around it . |
| 18 | Copiously furnished with crammed bookcases , shelves stacked with cassettes and 19th century lithographs tastefully dispersed across the walls , it seems at first glance to be a richly cultured environment . |
| 19 | Neither judgment is quite the epitaph it seems at first sight . |
| 20 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 21 | It seems at first sight strange that in a disposition essentially formless so much time should be spent by the jurists on questions of wording . |
| 22 | The text needs to be watched closely for all may not be as it seems at first . |
| 23 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 24 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 25 | Mr Lingham 's grandfather came to Hailing from Luddesdowne as tenant to Court Farm in the 1860's , it seems at first it was run jointly with a Mr Davis , but in October 1895 the farming stock of Court Farm was auctioned off , the property of Messrs Lingham & Davis . |
| 26 | It seems at first difficult to proceed with this debate . |
| 27 | However , although it seems at first sight that prospects for prevention associated with life events are bleak , there are nevertheless a number of realistic possibilities , and it is important to go through these . |
| 28 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 29 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 30 | But while it seems at first quite normal that this should happen at an inquest involving the opera 's central character one soon notices that the process is in fact highly artificial , like the narrations which open several of Britten 's later operas , designed in this instance to have the dramatis personae stand up and be recognised but in a context which fits the story . |