Example sentences of "[noun sg] seem [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that after four long , very long , years , a little light seems at last to be discernible through the gloom . |
| 2 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure . |
| 5 | The function of early Anglo-Saxon pottery seems at first glance to be obvious . |
| 6 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The central part of the island seemed at first to belong to another and less dramatic world . |
| 9 | ( It is interesting , however , that the tsar seems at first to have intended to give the college some jurisdiction over aspects of Russia 's internal administration ; and for a considerable time it did in fact handle quasi-internal issues such as relations with the Kalmuck tribes and with the Cossack hetman in the Ukraine . |
| 10 | Grappelli 's swinging , fluid style seems at first to be leaving his young guitar/bass duo behind , however well before half-distance they are fully warmed-up ( say by Just one of those things ) and thenceforth come into their own with sympathetic accompaniment and youthful aplomb . |
| 11 | In comparison with the BCG matrix , the McKinsey-GE matrix seems at first to be less explicit about building some ‘ problem children ’ into ‘ stars ’ and identifying ‘ cash cows ’ and ‘ dogs ’ , but the implications are present , as indicated by figure 4.3 . |
| 12 | But in Kendall , City seem at last to have hired a manager with the credentials to match the club 's aspirations . |
| 13 | For once in his life , Leopold must have been truly happy : his hopes and prayers for his beloved son seemed at last to have come to fruition . |