Example sentences of "[noun pl] seem [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The books seemed never to cease , from Burgundy Vines and Wines and a history of the house of Krug , to Fred , the story of Freddie Trueman , and , together with Sir Neville Cardus , The Noblest Game . |
| 2 | He reads : ’ Not that way , ’ cried his pessimistic friend grasping Toad 's arm and directing him away from the especially grim and oppressive corridor into which his laboured steps seemed automatically to have led him |
| 3 | The lower , parochial clergy seem often to have had wives and children ; but the ladies and children of the close , of whom Heloise herself had been one , become a thing of the past . |
| 4 | One could hear every ‘ tick-tock ’ of the clock , but the hours seemed never to pass . |
| 5 | And now time , which in the last ten minutes seemed mysteriously to have halted , flowed again and he was standing at his bedroom window five days later watching the great ball of the sun rise out of the sea to stain the horizon and spread over the eastern sky the veins and arteries of the new day . |
| 6 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 7 | His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope . |
| 8 | ( Visits seem only to take place at the stage of formulating proposals . ) |
| 9 | The fruits seem almost to jump into his hands and mouth , just dying to serve mankind , and , as with Marlowe , there is no sign of work to be seen behind this fertility . |
| 10 | In Calcutta the railway companies seem almost to have been overawed by the classical splendour of the Viceroy s palace and the great secretariat buildings dating from the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 11 | The intervals seem proportionately to increase . |
| 12 | Thus postmodernist cultural de-differentiation of representations and commodities seems unambiguously to have reactionary political-cultural consequences . |
| 13 | The strange behaviour of systems that exhibit quantum effects seems often to challenge common sense , raising questions as to whether quantum theory provides only an incomplete account of nature and some other theory is needed at a more fundamental level , or even whether our concept of reality needs adjusting . |
| 14 | Even the much-vaunted " Charity School Movement " of the early decades seems only to have helped stop a poor level becoming worse . |
| 15 | Jefferson is one of those people upon whom Church youth groups seem often to depend . |
| 16 | It might also be argued that the treatment of language in terms of sentences has been quite successful in revealing how language works , that within the sentence we can establish rules and constraints concerning what is and is not allowed , whereas beyond the sentence , such rules seem either to disintegrate or turn into rules of a different kind — social rules or psychological rules , which are not within the area of linguistic study at all . |
| 17 | After many years when some ensembles seemed hesitant to apply them to appropriate passages of slow and moderate conjunct movement , thus depriving such movements of the vitality their composers surely intended , some performers seem now to apply inequality at all tempos , including the recklessly fast . |
| 18 | The trademarks seem increasingly to wear the player . |
| 19 | Fairs and fights seem always to go hand in hand . |
| 20 | While the Bush camp exposed Clinton 's sexual peccadilloes in the hope of lowering his public esteem , the revelations seemed actually to increase his sex appeal rating among women voters . |
| 21 | Though the violent fiery colours seemed somehow to suit this ancient volcanic island , to Polly there was something ominous about them . |
| 22 | Continuous re-assessment and new modifications and calculations seem never to have conveyed complete confidence , even to Teller . |
| 23 | Other than at Oxford and Cambridge , educational buildings seem generally to have become disappointing . |
| 24 | Aside from a passing interest in the impact of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme on future tax burdens , economists seem generally to have ignored the issues of elderly people and of ageing . |
| 25 | In fact and in fiction , not only in the Regency but in the eighteenth century as well , the upper classes seem rarely to have ventured beneath an impoverished roof , much less imagined what it would be like to live beneath one . |
| 26 | He observes the prohibition against ‘ talking shop ’ , whereas Pound through his London years seems never to have talked anything else . |
| 27 | A railway hotel dinner in those days seems hardly to have been the dread experience it would be to-day . |
| 28 | Studio conditions seemed particularly to bring out these traits , and the need to repeat 78rpm sides certainly brought out the nervous sides of artists . |
| 29 | We built a simple little device which could administer a mild shock to a chick held briefly in my hand — tested on my finger , the shock is no more than a brief tingle , and the chicks seemed scarcely to notice it — ; and I checked out Benowitz' finding . |
| 30 | Throughout their journey they had felt little of the uneasy fear that smells danger behind every bush but despite the weariness that dulled their senses these half-seen forms of rock among the trees seemed now to imply a threatening human presence . |