Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again the space between them seemed solid . |
| 2 | Only the flowers in the vase on the table in front of me seemed real . |
| 3 | None of them seemed keen to be involved with the police . |
| 4 | They were elicited by my questions about his earlier career , and most of them seemed new to Laura for she laughed with unfeignable gaiety , her head at moments in helpless tears against his chest . |
| 5 | None of them seemed anxious to comply and Trent doubted his strength would last long enough to haul Gomez against the weight of the Zodiac . |
| 6 | He believed the nurses all fancied him , but none of them seemed willing to do anything about it . |
| 7 | In December I was interviewed on a dark evening at Trinity by a group of Fellows , one of whom wore enormous boots and all of them seemed amused by my belief that there were no good books on eighteenth-century English history . |
| 8 | So many small rivalries existed between different cliques in the camp and so many of them seemed synthetic that it looked sometimes as if antagonism was essential to human beings as a form of self-expression . |
| 9 | The pair of them seemed pompous , arrogant and vain to the point of caricature . |
| 10 | Her duties were many , and none of them seemed onerous to her . |
| 11 | Contrary to rumour our Clubreps are not Masters of the Universe , although even we admit that one or two of them seem superhuman . |
| 12 | Most of them seem apprehensive at the prospect of a possible loss of authority , failing to see that , on the contrary , their grip on matters would be greatly strengthened . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of them seem content to sit in the Royal Box at Wembley and shake hands . |
| 14 | The Willses ' modesty about their own achievements has amounted to selfdisparagement , and their preference for understatement has made some of them seem uncommunicative , especially at large gatherings , and has masked their underlying good humour and quiet sense of fun . |
| 15 | These are simply different powers , but only one of them seems connected with consciousness , and not the one Minsky opted for . |
| 16 | See all the houses on your shortlist first , consider them all carefully , go through the checklist again , and then if one of them seems suitable and you feel in your bones that you would like it , then make a further appointment to view it again . |
| 17 | What culture tries to make out of them seems attainable only at the cost of a sensible loss of pleasure ; the persistence of the impulses that are not enrolled in adult sexual activity makes itself felt in an absence of satisfaction . |
| 18 | The senior magistrate was a large and imposing man with a round face and a bald head ; the man and woman on either side of him seemed dried-out and lifeless by comparison , as if most of their energy had been diverted to sustain their companion . |
| 19 | Much of it seems realistic and sensible : ‘ Do not threaten to call the police . |
| 20 | Haemoglobin is doing an important job in the blood , and its details really matter ; but several alternative variants of it seem capable of doing the job equally well . |
| 21 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 22 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 23 | Something about him seemed absent ‘ They knocked him silly ’ , old people said , in the dockers ' strike . ’ |
| 24 | There 's another reason for him to seem dated . |
| 25 | Everything about her seemed elongated : her fingers , her face . |
| 26 | By its nature , metaphysics almost never provides us with certainties ; so rather than bother with it , most people ’ believe ’ what to them seems most plausible . |
| 27 | Although at first sight the answers to them seem obvious , they become much more complex and contestable when subjected to closer examination , and they have never been systematically brought together , or the questions definitively resolved . |
| 28 | What to me seems surprising is that M. Oliver , who presumably supplied the recipes for the Le Creuset leaflet , does not give what is said to be the old and traditional fondue of Franche-Comté , a dish in every respect superior to its primitive Swiss counterpart , having both greater finesse of flavour and texture and far less brutally indigestible qualities . |
| 29 | With × 7 or × 8.5 , M42 is in the same field as the Belt , making up a spectacle which to me seems unrivalled in the whole of the sky . |
| 30 | ‘ He remarked on me seeming worried about it and asked if I might be pregnant . ’ |