Example sentences of "[pron] seemed a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linda Bloomfield , chief executive of Merseyside TEC , said : ‘ Businessmen 's time is in short supply so taking the show to them seemed a logical idea . ’ |
| 2 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 3 | In a sense , this was a line which had been followed by John Hunter ; but his heirs in Britain had not pursued it , partly because of a national aversion to the vivisection which seemed a necessary part of it and partly because it seemed materialistic . |
| 4 | ‘ It was just one of those things which seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 5 | More specifically , in most offices the interception and reading of correspondence which seemed a possible source of useful information still continued . |
| 6 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 7 | And incidentally going back to that shot by Jochim in the end the referee gave a free kick against him for er presumably fouling the defender which seemed a harsh decision . |
| 8 | We had one suspect , Kevin Fox , who seemed a perfect match . |
| 9 | She seemed a thoughtful person , someone of like nature to Mary Smith , but with much more up top . |
| 10 | She seemed a typical product of her upper-middle-class background in Westchester County . |
| 11 | She seemed a brazen hussy ! ’ |
| 12 | Because she seemed a nice woman and had had a nice mother , with whom she seemed to get on well . |
| 13 | He says : ‘ She seemed a happy person on the surface but underneath she had been deeply affected by her parents ’ divorce . ’ |
| 14 | She seemed a charming girl to me . |
| 15 | A pulse of light slid over Fincara 's face , and the long green eyes were so alight , so blazingly concentrated , that she seemed a different woman . |
| 16 | But even if it had been believed in Paris , there was a further complication in that the actual renunciation had come not from Leopold but from his father ( whom the Paris papers now labelled ‘ Father Anthony ’ ) , which in itself seemed a curious procedure . |
| 17 | We seemed a million miles from the Weddell Sea and that ice-encrusted vessel , but I had a feeling now that this was all a part of the voyage to come . |
| 18 | Although they had not seen the Harbour Master 's orders themselves , there seemed a distinct possibility that all ‘ normal ’ use of the water was about to end . |
| 19 | There seemed a strange lack of conviction about the Ipswich display and three minutes before the interval there was another scare when Hendrie crossed from the right but Wilkinson headed wide at the far post . |
| 20 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 21 | He seemed a sinister character with his long snout and bony body , alert , watchful , suspicious . |
| 22 | ‘ He seemed a kindly person , not in the least severe . |
| 23 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 24 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 25 | In a red cloak I saw him go , His back was bent , his step was slow , And as he laboured through the cold He seemed a hundred winters old . |
| 26 | The last time he called on us after his exhibition at Keighley he seemed a new man , with a delight in having found himself in his painting and amazement that it also gave pleasure to so many others . |
| 27 | Wattana had beaten Parrott in four major events this season and he seemed a good bet to improve this record when he established a 2–0 lead . |
| 28 | He seemed a useful source where Dysart 's Oxford days were concerned . |
| 29 | For a while he seemed a shy figure hovering on the borders of a conversation , longing to take part in it , to belong . |
| 30 | The next evening my father was brought home in a German car , but he seemed a broken man . |