Example sentences of "[noun] seem [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Written in days before his present broken state , that last entry seemed to bear the marks of a flourish of self-satisfaction . |
| 2 | In the St George , Westminster , by-election in March 1931 the Empire Crusade candidacy seemed to exacerbate the divisions in the Conservative party which the press proprietors had initiated . |
| 3 | Her lips seemed to speak the words automatically , while her mind raced ahead . |
| 4 | An attempt was also made to take the vacuum pump body , but its weight and bulk seemed to defeat the thief , who nevertheless hid it in nearby bushes . |
| 5 | Beside him Vauban seemed to share the joke ; that extraordinary bastard leaned against the arm of the throne as if he was the king 's brother , openly stifling a yawn at Dacourt 's ponderous phrases . |
| 6 | It is clear that each Command had a basis for judging tour length ; for example , Bomber Command seemed to feature the number of sorties to establish this . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , tension seemed to tighten the air between them . |
| 8 | Then an icy wind seemed to fill the dining-room , and at the same time Mrs Hampton 's macaws began to scream . |
| 9 | When displayed in the great cities of the east , and in the capitals of Europe , the larger dinosaurs seemed to confirm the superiority of modern industrial society by showing how the world had been conquered both in space and time . |
| 10 | The deliberate action seemed to pacify the German too . |
| 11 | At first , Ceauşescu seemed to accept the solution but still needed to be convinced of the details of the route . |
| 12 | All the old delusions seemed to stain the air . |
| 13 | Travis seemed to appreciate the attempt at humour . |
| 14 | Suddenly Morthen seemed to sense the watcher . |
| 15 | The Proximity of the factory and its computers seemed to charge the Worm . |
| 16 | The research programme seemed to provide the stimulus for improvement around the country , particularly in academic libraries where many working parties were set up to deal with the problem . |
| 17 | And that too seems related to the solidarities of kinship and to the training in respect which comes with belonging to a lineage : in a sense , both cadres and ordinary Libyans seemed to share the assumption that loyalties of descent and domesticity were more important than differences of opinion . |
| 18 | Secondary schools seem to find the prospect of having to produce a report most threatening ( least , primary ) , with the greatest degree of uncertainty as to the stage reached in presentation : a quarter of secondary school teachers were unsure whether their school report had yet been submitted to the LEA whilst only 5 per cent of middle school teachers and no primary school teachers were unsure about this . |
| 19 | These two systems working in opposition seem to give the locust very fine speed control . |
| 20 | It 's the English that vote Thatcher into power again and again and the Scots seem to take the brunt of it . |
| 21 | The remedies seem to have the power to help harmonize the body 's metabolic processes and to correct imbalances in them . |
| 22 | As she silently squirms , I would swear her purpling head is expanding ; dumbly , her eyes seem to bugle the pressure within . |
| 23 | And because education is thought by some people to be unique , its very isolation seems to justify the fact that its management should not be evaluated on lines comparable to the management of business , industry or other spheres of large-scale public work . |
| 24 | This study seems to refute the hypothesis that CLO is an end stage disease occurring in old patients with longer histories of reflux because of age , sex ratio , and duration of symptoms is similar to the severe reflus oesophagitis group . |
| 25 | Be that as it may , blood-sharing in vampire bats seems to fit the Axelrod model well . |
| 26 | Will she therefore welcome the repeal last week of section 2 of the Kenyan constitution , as that action seems to pave the way for the introduction of multi-party democracy ? |
| 27 | Finally , the wording of the sub-section seems to invite the defence to argue that the complainant 's submission did not occur by reason of the factors mentioned . |
| 28 | This is where Zwingli preached the message which swung the Zurichers to his line of thinking , and its grave facade seems to reflect the severity of his teaching . |
| 29 | As articulated forcefully by Trotsky in Their Morality and Ours , this imperative seems to permit the liquidation of counter-revolutionary social classes , of one generation for another , and a whole range of outrageous Machiavellian manoeuvres , provided the ends of the proletariat or communism are advanced . |
| 30 | The one in the photograph seems to lack the bits of tube I have seen in others . |