Example sentences of "[noun sg] seem [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Written in days before his present broken state , that last entry seemed to bear the marks of a flourish of self-satisfaction . |
| 2 | In the St George , Westminster , by-election in March 1931 the Empire Crusade candidacy seemed to exacerbate the divisions in the Conservative party which the press proprietors had initiated . |
| 3 | An attempt was also made to take the vacuum pump body , but its weight and bulk seemed to defeat the thief , who nevertheless hid it in nearby bushes . |
| 4 | It is clear that each Command had a basis for judging tour length ; for example , Bomber Command seemed to feature the number of sorties to establish this . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , tension seemed to tighten the air between them . |
| 6 | Then an icy wind seemed to fill the dining-room , and at the same time Mrs Hampton 's macaws began to scream . |
| 7 | The deliberate action seemed to pacify the German too . |
| 8 | It was pitch dark everywhere , and the whirr of the ceiling fan seemed to fill the silent bedroom . |
| 9 | The research programme seemed to provide the stimulus for improvement around the country , particularly in academic libraries where many working parties were set up to deal with the problem . |
| 10 | The headline seemed to fill the stormy horizon . |
| 11 | Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces . |
| 12 | These two systems working in opposition seem to give the locust very fine speed control . |
| 13 | And because education is thought by some people to be unique , its very isolation seems to justify the fact that its management should not be evaluated on lines comparable to the management of business , industry or other spheres of large-scale public work . |
| 14 | This study seems to refute the hypothesis that CLO is an end stage disease occurring in old patients with longer histories of reflux because of age , sex ratio , and duration of symptoms is similar to the severe reflus oesophagitis group . |
| 15 | Human beings as we know are sexually dimorphic and tha that figure seems to fit the er the , the pattern , but erm women have a lot of characteristics that are peculiar to them , like for example erm more youthful looks , women will retain more youthful looks longer than men do and it is normally regarded as important and a lot of women spend an awful lot of money in the modern society on trying to remain erm looking er looking youthful . |
| 16 | Will she therefore welcome the repeal last week of section 2 of the Kenyan constitution , as that action seems to pave the way for the introduction of multi-party democracy ? |
| 17 | Finally , the wording of the sub-section seems to invite the defence to argue that the complainant 's submission did not occur by reason of the factors mentioned . |
| 18 | Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings . |
| 19 | Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings . |
| 20 | This is where Zwingli preached the message which swung the Zurichers to his line of thinking , and its grave facade seems to reflect the severity of his teaching . |
| 21 | As articulated forcefully by Trotsky in Their Morality and Ours , this imperative seems to permit the liquidation of counter-revolutionary social classes , of one generation for another , and a whole range of outrageous Machiavellian manoeuvres , provided the ends of the proletariat or communism are advanced . |
| 22 | The one in the photograph seems to lack the bits of tube I have seen in others . |
| 23 | Thus Wittgenstein 's notion of a criterion seems to provide the sort of compromise we are looking for . |
| 24 | Rev. Levitt 's antipathy sprang from the fact that when he was ill or needed a break in the non-stop Day of Atonement services it was Percy Lovitch who deputised for him , his tall corpulent figure seeming to fill the small pulpit and his exquisite tenor voice quite outshining Rev. Levitt 's pedestrian baritone . |
| 25 | Once , the fight against communism seemed to unite the nation beneath the Black Madonna of Czestochowa , the Polish white eagle , and the memory of the martyrs of World War II and Stalinism . |
| 26 | After further discussion it was agreed that , due to the complexities of the regulations surrounding financial transactions , and the obligation to make regular returns to the headquarters about financial matters , investigation of the FI category seemed to offer the most potential for improvement . |
| 27 | Even her skin seemed to recall the touch of his hands , strong but tender . |
| 28 | The thunder seemed to shake the foundations of the building . |
| 29 | The lashing rain had just started and as she spoke a great roll of thunder seemed to shake the house . |
| 30 | Even when the noise of his entry had subsided , his very presence seemed to alter the atmosphere in the room in some way . |