Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | At the time his outspokenness seemed like refreshing honesty . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's just that after four long , very long , years , a little light seems at last to be discernible through the gloom . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 9 | The question seemed of great importance to her . |
| 10 | Knocking the arrow seemed after all not to have been the ultimate disaster . |
| 11 | Ultranationalist thinking on the rural sector seemed in many ways only a more radical version of official views . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The coroner seemed in good spirits . |
| 17 | In February 1987 it secured only 6.4% — less than the 11.8% won by the Progressive Democrats , a new party whose emergence seemed at that time to betoken the awakening of a new and more specifically political consciousness among Irish voters . |
| 18 | Body seems in fair condition , own hair , not thinning . |
| 19 | With the pile of huge marrows , the whole service seemed like some ancient fertility rite , with Ricky the unattainable corn king whom everyone wanted . |
| 20 | In the glaring light , the racket of cicadas , the events of the night seemed in some way fictional ; as if I must have been slightly drugged . |
| 21 | Individual psychological treatments entailing long sessions with any kind of therapist seem of limited value in general practice and make little economic sense . |
| 22 | The dog-handled pot-lids from Mochlos , for example , seem to show a particular dog relaxing on a particular afternoon in the hot bronze age sunshine ; the crowds in the miniature frescoes seem alive with the excitement of the spectacle they are witnessing , and seem to have been caught mid-shout ; the hoopoes in the Pilgrim Hostel fresco seem at first glance to have fallen from the pages of some bronze age edition of Audubon . |
| 23 | This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure . |
| 24 | This might occur for example where an elderly person seems to those around to be failing to cope in daily life , and the situation has to be explored . |
| 25 | For the abrupt , hasty manner of Pound 's criticism seems to some readers to carry the implication ( to which Pound in fact did not subscribe ) that no critic is worth listening to unless he has laboured at the maker 's workbench ; that all worthwhile criticism of stories comes from story-tellers , that only poets are worth listening to about poems . |
| 26 | The function of early Anglo-Saxon pottery seems at first glance to be obvious . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , there is a risk that the insurer ought to anticipate if the case seems at all likely to throw up difficulties in relation to quantification of future loss . |
| 28 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 29 | Even as recession seems at last to be easing , the strains that recession has helped to create between booksellers and publishers were brought quickly to the fore at the Booksellers Association annual conference in Torquay this week . |
| 30 | It was hoped in this way to reduce the high refusal rate which is a hazard in sociolinguistic surveys , and indeed the method seemed in general to be successful in this respect ; altogether , out of 40 addresses visited , only 8 refusals were recorded . |