Example sentences of "[noun sg] seem the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sexual collapse seemed the necessary path of social revolution ; sexual and family decorum a vital part of social stability . |
| 2 | It was not until 1981 that school closure seemed the inevitable solution to falling rolls . |
| 3 | Darren said : ‘ We are both history lovers so enlisting the town crier 's help seemed the ideal way to propose . |
| 4 | Darren said : ‘ We are both history lovers so enlisting the town crier 's help seemed the ideal way to propose . |
| 5 | Just now work seemed the best antidote to the frustration that was boiling inside her . |
| 6 | This series , set in a Boston bar , had become the most popular television comedy of recent years ; and no character was more loved than the mop-headed Norm , whose seat at the corner of the bar seemed the only home he knew . |
| 7 | After two or three years of utter boredom in the bosom of their family , marriage seemed the only answer to those forced back home . |
| 8 | The hut seems the ideal place to stay the night if the storm holds , but I am not sure if I am allowed to : it is full of instructions which are all written in Icelandic . |
| 9 | A transfer seems the only way out , but he says : ‘ I feel I still have so much to prove to Everton and myself . |
| 10 | And increasingly , as I thought about it , that planet seemed the best idea . |
| 11 | The clientele seemed the same sort of rich mixture as ever , and the game of guessing who was what — could the distinguished looking old boy be a Thuringian baron , the owner of a launderette chain in South Dakota or a villain from South Croydon ? — kept all its old charm . |
| 12 | The only exception is Moses and in Moses as Kirsty says , the story seems the wrong way round . |
| 13 | The young Morris , born in Walthamstow and educated at Marlborough , had wanted something ‘ very medieval in spirit ’ , and the bit of north Kent which was then deep in the fruitgrowing countryside seemed the perfect place to build . |
| 14 | Corman , however , never permitted the final conclusion and left an ambiguous ending in which suicide seemed the only answer for the Fonda character . |
| 15 | A paper seemed the logical progression , a paper for the 6,000 at the Albert Hall , a paper for the people living in cheap rooms in Notting Hill Gate , Covent Garden , Ladbroke Grove , Chalk Farm , the Gate , the Garden , the Grove , and the Farm . |
| 16 | Given the need for reliability , transactional neutrality and ease of access , a public type of bill of lading registry seems the logical choice . |
| 17 | His face wore that concentrated look she had grown used to , as if everything he did was the focus of all his energies — like the look when he 'd taken her in his arms and made his kiss seem the still point of the entire universe . |
| 18 | The river seemed the obvious place . |
| 19 | I was warm and sleepy but my master kept haranguing me : compliance seemed the easiest way out so I put on my boots , grabbed my cloak and accompanied him down to the Templar chapel . |
| 20 | In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge . |
| 21 | Her movements then are equally purposeful but they are constricted and withdrawn , so that her father 's contemptuous rejection of her pleas and his throwing her to the floor seem the proper outcome of what in his eyes is sheer disobedience . |
| 22 | Loudon 's avowed objective , ‘ the amelioration of the great mass of society in all countries ’ , may appear to a modem reader grandiose , but to the Victorian reformer a bloodless revolution in housing seemed the best way of avoiding the carnage already witnessed on the European mainland . |
| 23 | He wanted to make another attempt at the kind of theatrical work with which he had experimented in Sweeney Agonistes — a verse drama but one in which the verse seems the natural expression of modern life , and which is able in a heightened or symbolic context to employ the tones and inflections of ordinary , contemporary speech . |
| 24 | Belgium is the extreme case of a country whose own institutions are so weak that EC integration seems the only substitute . |
| 25 | The man responsible for two of the cruellest kidnappings in British criminal history seemed the perfect neighbour . |
| 26 | A visit to India being planned for the Prince the following year seemed the perfect opportunity . |
| 27 | A grand ball in the château seemed the obvious way to celebrate such exciting new departures , especially as the decoration was , finally , complete . |
| 28 | I agree that he was probably killed by a single blow and that wooden mallet on the table seems the likely weapon . |
| 29 | At first sight this option seems the political equivalent of the status quo with low-level waste . |
| 30 | At 23 , fitness seems the only barrier between him and a Test career . |