Example sentences of "[pers pn] now seem [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They now seemed enormous , with the swell surging up their black , shining sides . |
| 2 | Her love for him now seemed shameful and foolish ; she imagined Marjorie saying to him , ‘ That silly kid 's crazy about you ’ and could almost hear his laughter in her ears . |
| 3 | Because of a mild affection for a tart he now seemed unable even to make love to , he was going to confront a man he knew to be a murderer with copies of the photographs for which a man had been killed . |
| 4 | A feeling he now seemed annoyed about , eager to negate . |
| 5 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 6 | It now seemed that Rose could n't even bear to touch him . |
| 7 | It now seemed extraordinary that so remote and irrelevant a place should ever loom so large in national and international affairs . |
| 8 | However , as it now seemed certain that the Company would be taken over by the new authority that was to unify public transport in London , before very long , these projects were left in abeyance . |
| 9 | Dwarfed by Vienna and time , it now seemed crude and static . |
| 10 | As my living was eked from my imagination , it now seemed sensible to link that imagination to my own healing . |
| 11 | The Bishop said the translator had attended very carefully to all the criticisms and it now seemed likely that we would have to wait until at least the end of the summer before the English edition appears . |
| 12 | It now seems reasonable to expect that the new chalets will be filled either by short term letting through a central agency , or by ‘ time sharing ’ which seems to be popular these days . |
| 13 | II ) it now seems reasonable to postulate a second group of integral affinities for the region . |
| 14 | Contrary to the belief that the fourth century mosaics of this region are the products of consecutive phases of the same school of mosaicists , it now seems reasonable to assume one specific and one more general trend of mosaic building , with many chronological as well as stylistic overlaps . |
| 15 | In retrospect , it now seems odd that they were considered the ultimate heavy metal band . |
| 16 | In retrospect , it now seems odd that they were considered the ultimate heavy metal band . |
| 17 | It now seems probable that there were more churches in late Saxon and early medieval times than was formerly thought . |
| 18 | A manor , it now seems unnecessary to reiterate , might be worth much or little , depending on a combination of factors : the size of the demensne and the efficiency of its management , whether the customary fines were certain or arbitrary , and if the latter , the vigour with which they were exploited . |
| 19 | In contrast , it now seems good law that the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher protects all interests including the interest of a non-occupier , e. g . |
| 20 | It now seems set to be pushed back at least three months , as the chosen central processing units are causing problems . |
| 21 | It now seems certain that St Paul 's Cathedral will not be surrounded by a modernist wall , but by a sympathetic series of buildings in the best classical tradition . |
| 22 | It now seems certain that , whichever party comes to power on 5 March , the latest funding measures will be upheld . |
| 23 | It now seems certain that cheap , convenient videoconferencing is at last going to reach a mass market of computer users . |
| 24 | If it now seems self-evident that monitoring of the global environment is necessary , indeed is even vital , the prediction of what is likely to happen is almost as important : the 170 000 people in the Maldives are understandably worried about the prospect of global sea-level change since no part of the islands is more than 2 m above present sea-level ! |
| 25 | THOUGH William Harvey 's discovery of the circulation of the blood was a great medical advance , it now seems self-evident to anyone with an understanding of plumbing . |
| 26 | These have dramatically altered and of course improved archaeologists ' knowledge about the duration of various episodes within pre-history , and it now seems possible that archaeology , and particularly prehistoric archaeology , will eventually have a dated historical sequence as clear as that used by historians . |
| 27 | It now seems possible that they are guided by the low-frequency pseudosounds in the thermals . |
| 28 | It now seems possible that the Abortion Pill , as it 's come to be called , will be available some time next year . |
| 29 | But it now seems possible that Pask will never come back to court . |
| 30 | It now seems that tubercle bacilli cause human disease because of their ability to induce necrotic tissue reactions , analogous to the Koch phenomenon in the guinea pig , rather than protective reactions . |