Example sentences of "seemed [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she put her cup down and began to speak in a soft , sad , dreaming voice that seemed to weave a spell of silence in the room . |
| 2 | According to Eileen Laughton , a Panel recruitment drive at the time seemed to acquire the services of a number of people who would not be disposed to argue with recommendations from the Social Work Department . |
| 3 | The lapels of his well-worn suit seemed to carry a permanent sheen from years of dropped ash on worsted . |
| 4 | The Austro-Marxists seemed to carry the argument so far into the nationalist camp that only the distinction between the cultural and the economic preserved internationalism . |
| 5 | By brush and pencil he conveyed in his innumerable studies of this quite ordinary girl , the fragility of an idealized beauty , and the paths of ill health , for in an enfeebled frame she seemed to carry the seeds of consumption . |
| 6 | No difference was found in the aspartate aminotransferase levels at the start of the two courses ; however , both courses seemed to induce a peak of aspartate aminotransferase values that often preceeds a response to therapy . |
| 7 | With no reason not to come in — since it was the spirit of the house that people should sit around the kitchen table talking — they seemed to sense a unity , to know they were not wanted . |
| 8 | The rider seemed to sense the fault was partly his . |
| 9 | Stella seemed to sense the coolness between them and , perhaps in an effort to ease the tension , she said hastily , ‘ This is Miss Lucy Telford , Silas . |
| 10 | Suddenly Morthen seemed to sense the watcher . |
| 11 | Eventually Ivy herself seemed to sense the need for an explanation . |
| 12 | This description of the extended professional takes some account of Stenhouse 's criticism of Hoyle 's earlier formulation which seemed to emphasise an uncritical acceptance of theory and consequently reduced teacher autonomy . |
| 13 | She loved the country life of the estate and could have been entirely happy were it not for Stephen 's habitual absences which only seemed to emphasise the constant presence of his mother . |
| 14 | He was standing in the doorway , his lean frame clad in a loose-fitting tawny-coloured suit that seemed to emphasise the taut muscle that lay beneath it . |
| 15 | The influenza epidemic of 1918/19 seemed to confirm a national state of unfitness : more than 151,000 deaths were recorded , the highest relative to population for any epidemic since the cholera outbreak of 1849 . |
| 16 | With Moscow still actively seeking to destabilize the western democracies during the thirties , Soviet calls for collective security ( 1934–39 ) against Nazi expansionism were viewed with acute suspicion and the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 seemed to confirm the worst . |
| 17 | The whole Soviet record seemed to confirm the undemocratic origins of Bolshevik power in Russia : glasnost and perestroika suggest that the regime itself is on the point of admitting as much . |
| 18 | More disturbingly , military statistics seemed to confirm the findings on poverty by Charles Booth and Llewellyn-Smith . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Much of the early proceedings seemed to confirm the recent resurgence of the conservative wing , as witnessed at the June founding congress of the Russian Federation Communist Party [ see pp. 37538-39 ] . |
| 21 | Evidence seemed to confirm the interest inelasticity of investment demand . |
| 22 | Sid 's petrolsplashing around the walls of the trench had , I believe encouraged the little bastards , they seemed to like the smell of petrol . |
| 23 | No one seemed to like the dry enervating and dusty climate of the Hollywood hills . |
| 24 | She kept her back rigorously straight : the foetus or baby seemed to like the bicycle : its movement usually , and she felt happily , ceased as hers began . |
| 25 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 26 | Queen Farah seemed to like the idea even less . |
| 27 | He seemed to like the easy life down there in Alba , or feasting with Popes and with Emperors further south . |
| 28 | The source of his personal identity and the nature of financial and status rewards also seemed to affect a teacher 's ability to change his classroom practice . |
| 29 | The presentation seemed to affect the error patterns more than the success rates ( Table 4.17 ) : there were several ways in which the dimensions of the box were used to obtain an answer . |
| 30 | They had n't booked a table at the restaurant , but Roman 's appearance seemed to galvanise the waiters into respectfully procuring the best table , at the centre of the balcony , with a magnificent view across the bay . |