Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] seem to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have the spokesman for science take on the churches seemed to many neither congenial nor wise . |
| 2 | Suddenly the newspaper seemed to be full of the latest ‘ hopes ’ or expected advances . |
| 3 | His covered body was taken out to a cooler resting place , and suddenly the foundry seemed to be going round and round . |
| 4 | Why do all the hooligans seem to be on the row in front and the row behind me ? |
| 5 | So the answer seems to be : talk like an indeterminist , act like a determinist . |
| 6 | I hope therefore that however much the cards seem to be stacked against us , feminists will keep on about language . |
| 7 | Worse still are cases in which only the jurist seems to be in doubt as to what kind of disposition is involved . |
| 8 | Soon the seascape seemed to be occupied by nothing but the two great ships clamped together , with a web of men and weapons passing glittering from the one to the other . |
| 9 | In addition , the physician made a personal assessment as to whether or not the patient seemed to be psychologically stressed at the time of the visit ; the physician 's evaluation of the patient 's status was recorded as ‘ stressed ’ or ‘ unstressed ’ . |
| 10 | There has been no tipping here for many years , and already the bank seems to be slowly settling back into the earth from which it came . |
| 11 | What is behind the bishops ' and archdeacons ' reluctance even to consider breaking up the boundaries seems to be a desire to maintain a mixture of middle , high and low churches and not upset the balance . |
| 12 | The drought yeah , yeah just now the drought seems to be much more widespread now does n't it and er into South Africa |
| 13 | Originally they offered to take measures to blend in the mast with it 's surroundings ; now the company seems to be softening its attitude . |
| 14 | Now the world seemed to be crumbling around us — her world especially . |
| 15 | The elegant slimline desktop case has been designed to be pleasing to the eye , and overall the machine seems to be well finished off . |
| 16 | He well the idea seems to be er er coming in at the end does n't it ? |
| 17 | Here the task seems to be capacity limited and the driver is acting to increase the resources available for the manoeuvre . |
| 18 | Even the ducks seemed to be giving it a miss . |
| 19 | Even the troopers seemed to be fascinated as they crowded closer for a better look . |
| 20 | There was an other-world stillness about the place , despite the previous night , and even the castle seemed to be touched by magic . |
| 21 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 22 | At least the kids seemed to be getting on . |
| 23 | How the glass seems to be bringing together so many of my old themes , he wrote . |
| 24 | Indeed the contrary seems to us almost unarguable . |
| 25 | Indeed the phases seem to be variable between specific arts . |
| 26 | She decided to go to the Kitty Kat Club that evening , as that was where the action seemed to be , but the Sheik 's secretary forestalled her . |
| 27 | ‘ We would like to follow the European model where the governments seem to be prepared to invest more money in improving the service , ’ he added . |
| 28 | It is on the green and yet the back seems to be clearer . |
| 29 | And yet the train seems to be able to pass it by , symbolically , by her passing by the graveyard , and to almost frown upon and transcend it . |
| 30 | Yet the laibon seems to be suggesting complicity by his own family in what Fairfax calls ‘ the balls-up ’ . |