Example sentences of "seemed [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Between 1987 and 1990 it seemed the sky was the limit . |
| 2 | In those early days it seemed the sky was the limit ! |
| 3 | Starting at the Cow and Calf you climbed through a Khyber Pass of crags from one ling-and-bracken horizon to another until it seemed the sky could not be far off . |
| 4 | The Poles filled every available truck and train with Silesian coal and sent it north ; for weeks a fine drifting cloud of coal-dust hung over Danzig and it seemed the port was to become a coal-opolis fit to rival Cardiff , the coal capital of the world . |
| 5 | We slept heavily ; it still seemed the middle of the night as we rose at 5am in order to reach Tarbert in time for our ferry . |
| 6 | She had expected to return home with full payment for the shoes she 'd made , but it seemed the theatre people were not too quick in settling bills , a practice they shared with the gentry . |
| 7 | He added that it seemed the Government had been pushed into making the decision by the major chain bookmakers , such as Ladbrokes and William Hill . |
| 8 | When the child support agency was set up it was greeted with almost universal approval , making runaway dads pay seemed the order of the day . |
| 9 | ‘ You were so horrible all of a sudden that formality seemed the order of the day . ’ |
| 10 | Post grad degrees and firsts seemed the order of the day . |
| 11 | Finubar of Lothern seemed the prince best suited to understanding this new age . |
| 12 | It seemed the prince would not have a witness influenced , even by his own daughter . |
| 13 | There never seemed the opportunity , and I was frightened to bring into the open subjects that were as potentially explosive as these . |
| 14 | Ross now admits that their conversations with the island 's inhabitants made them ‘ overconscious perhaps of island sloth and corruption , of the drug-running and fatalism that seemed the legacies of a colonial past ’ . |
| 15 | It seemed the aroma of him was growing all around her , damp and masculine , the smell of rain in a forest . |
| 16 | Throughout the weeks on the stump he remained entirely amiable , even if his nice smile sometimes seemed the work of a plastic surgeon . |
| 17 | Prudence as opposed to boldness now seemed the keyword . |
| 18 | But it seemed the educators in question had simply failed to understand the structural rules of nonstandard grammars , and as linguists success-fully argued , their claims were meaningless . |
| 19 | It seemed the kind of place in which people grew embittered . |
| 20 | So when it seemed the conversation was nearly over and , for the first time since he had known her , she appeared to have called for no reason , he was almost relieved to hear her ask , ‘ Now then , David , have you heard from him ? ’ |
| 21 | Then , one week , the quietest woman in the group said : ‘ This is the only place where I can afford to be honest , ’ and somehow it seemed the healing process had begun . |
| 22 | Then a green light would stab through the gloom and he 'd be roaring down the narrow concrete strip , faster and faster , holding Sugar back until it seemed the boundary fence was hurtling to meet them . |
| 23 | At one point , it seemed the Middlesbrough game might not go ahead because fire had badly damaged a stand and shotgun cartridges were found buried in the pitch . |
| 24 | Unionists were therefore soon frustrated by what seemed the weakness of their leaders in swallowing- Asquith and getting nothing in return . |
| 25 | At one stage , it seemed the Kuwaitis would accept no compromise by insisting that they were allowed to go on rebuilding their production to 2 million bpd . |
| 26 | Thanks to Sybille two local women were hired to do extra cooking and cleaning on these occasions , when it seemed the concept of the extended family had turned the Ashleys into hoteliers . |
| 27 | There had recently been a very bad storm , leaving mud everywhere , and it seemed the sewers had overflowed in Saffron Hill , for the filth was worse than she had ever seen it . |
| 28 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |
| 29 | Gordon Brown , the shadow chancellor and Labour MP for Dunfermline East , said that it seemed the decision might now be as late as May . |
| 30 | The nocturnal ground parrot , or kakapo , also seemed the stuff of legend : a huge , flightless bird — the largest parrot in the world — which scavenged clumsily on the forest floor . |