Example sentences of "seemed a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a shame to disturb him , but … |
| 2 | Starting with the Belgian chocolates , desire seemed a potent and dynamic force , like a nuclear engine , high-powered and probably lethal . |
| 3 | Yet they drew huge crowds and all their meetings seemed a success . |
| 4 | Suddenly , Snowdonia and the Lakes seemed a million miles away . |
| 5 | When this and the regeneration/resurrection theme are brought to bear upon the remark about Bazarov and the 1840s , what seemed a difference of degree turns out to be one of a kind . |
| 6 | The revival of psychoanalytic criticism , usually in its Lacanian version , has been a disconcerting surprise to someone who came to intellectual maturity in the 1950s , when Freud seemed a figure of increasing remoteness . |
| 7 | He seemed a genial and indestructible landmark in the history of American music , in spite of defective hearing which had bothered him since the late Seventies . |
| 8 | Keller was made a Steward of Henley Royal Regatta in 1976 , a time when the proliferation of new six-lane , still-water courses around the world , which had emerged under his guidance , seemed a threat to the regatta founded in 1829 . |
| 9 | A GENERATION ago mammalian neuroanatomy seemed a scholarly subject , a frame for functional studies but unlikely to provide an impetus for the astonishing advances in understanding of the brain over the last four decades , in which Hans Kuypers became one of the leaders . |
| 10 | Giants went ahead at 69-67 through Johnson and as the momentum swung away from the Finns , overall victory suddenly seemed a possibility . |
| 11 | The last time he was at the Phoenix , in Simon Gray 's The Common Pursuit , John Sessions was lost in a soggy , unsympathetic part , while co-stars like Rik Mayall and Stephen Fry hogged all the limelight ; he seemed a non-entity . |
| 12 | Although this seemed a good idea at the time , current strategy at WH Smith is to have full control , as in the buying up of 100 per cent of Molinaire , the TV services company , in July . |
| 13 | EIGHT months ago the conservative Daily Telegraph seemed a happy media parable of modern Britain . |
| 14 | More moderate temperaments , to whom the patterning seemed a sort of death in the first place , are apt to remain stubbornly cheerful . |
| 15 | A seventeenth-century painted chest which would have cost $1m if it had been American seemed a bargain at one tenth that price . |
| 16 | It seemed a near miracle that it got off to a relatively smooth start , politically speaking , in 1921–2 . |
| 17 | This seemed a refreshing attempt to ‘ break the mould ’ of British politics . |
| 18 | The fiction seemed a low insurance premium to pay for diplomatic and naval protection , the more desirable in a world where other predatory powers besides the United States were arising . |
| 19 | The PC seemed a trifle unnerved playing to a full house . |
| 20 | For menials to play those of a higher rank and breeding seemed a deep violation of the principle of fixed division on which civilization rested . |
| 21 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
| 22 | I was proud of getting accepted , particularly at St Martin 's because it was such a good art school , but Fine Art seemed a fast road to nowhere What kind of job can you get at the end of that ? |
| 23 | Attempts to roll back the state in industry ( as well as welfare ) seemed a hopeless task . |
| 24 | So it seemed a fairly straightforward move to go and work for the family firm . |
| 25 | At times it seemed a bit strange to have a university degree and be working so physically hard but in many ways those three years were a very good period . |
| 26 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 27 | All seemed a kind of mockery . |
| 28 | For the first time the house seemed a frail defence against all that beat around it . |
| 29 | The theory of natural selection meant that natural species could be explained in terms of the conditions necessary for their survival , and it seemed a small further step to explaining human social systems in such terms ; that is , in terms of the ways by which human beings gained their livelihood and reproduced . |
| 30 | Firearms , unknown to the Indians at the time of the conquest , seemed a frightening manifestation of the supernatural , for they ‘ fled out of fear when there was a blare of trumpets , the roar of arquebuses and artillery ’ . |