Example sentences of "seem [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move seemed intended to protect domestic supply — there had been a 25 per cent fall in production in the first half of 1991 [ see p. 38492 ] . |
| 2 | The measures proposed in the first SCSE resolution seemed designed to gain popular support , and , according to a report in Le Monde of Aug. 22 , food unavailable for months suddenly appeared in Moscow 's shops during the coup . |
| 3 | Slorne stared , her feathers a silvery grey in the night , and seemed to try to find some strength which would let her speak . |
| 4 | But the music seemed to give Spot more interest in life . |
| 5 | ‘ He got better — went back to the Fire Service , ’ she said , but Eileen 's innocent remark seemed to have touched some nerve which made her say bitterly , ‘ He went back to scrimping and saving to keep his horrible wife in comfort in a nursing home . |
| 6 | A way forward seemed to have emerged some decades ago with the school of " facet analysis " developed from the work of Dr S. R. Ranganathan , whose revolutionary Colon Classification is widely in use throughout India . |
| 7 | The salesman and Hank , however , seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office , where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender . |
| 8 | What excited them even more was that , surprisingly , no one seemed to have followed this idea up ( and indeed no one had , as B. Mamyrin confirmed in 1989 ) . |
| 9 | But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned . |
| 10 | She wanted to move away from him , but she seemed to have lost all sensation in her limbs . |
| 11 | The train was still moving between stations but the twins seemed to have lost all interest in knowing how long it took and relaying this information to the rest of the carriage . |
| 12 | She seemed to have lost some sense that events could be controlled or hopefully directed . |
| 13 | Keynesianism seemed to have banished mass unemployment for ever and wage rises seemed as natural and regular as the tides . |
| 14 | It was in one of New York City 's ‘ crowded sections ’ that Thrasher and Cressey found that ‘ the photoplay of Little Caesar seemed to have swept certain groups of boys — like a cyclone , leaving a host of consequences ’ and came across boys who swaggered , threw mock-punches , dressed , and ‘ smiled like Cagney ’ and who went around repeating phrases like ‘ You can dish it out but you ca n't take it . ’ |
| 15 | His eyes seemed to have gathered more gold from somewhere … |
| 16 | I seemed to have missed some mail lately , my sister kept asking me whether I had n't received her letters . " |
| 17 | Besides cooking , he seemed to have done most things , course after course . |
| 18 | However , it did draw attention to an important point that seemed to have eluded positivist correctionalism : crime does not have a blanket , objective status that enables us automatically to be against it regardless of what ‘ it ’ is . |
| 19 | Louise was so animated by now that she seemed to have forgotten that morning 's funeral . |
| 20 | All the swims that have given me good dace fishing seemed to have shared similar features , the main one being their tendency to become shallower towards the tail . |
| 21 | It was disquieting , though , the way he seemed to have to make these excuses to himself , as if his conscience which he had , so he thought at the age of sixteen , successfully buried , had suddenly reawakened to plague him , not about the fundamentals of belief and morality but about such comparative trivialities as whether or not one should attend the church bazaar . |
| 22 | After all , Charles never seemed to have held much regard for Christian morality and marriage laws , and certainly was not likely to let papal complaints and rhetoric alter his decisions . |
| 23 | They seemed to have brought another world into the shop . |
| 24 | And now , eighteen years afterwards , in a poorly attended North London church of hideous architecture and amid clouds of strong incense , he seemed to have regained that faith . |
| 25 | Mr Kinnock is one of those few politicians , Mrs Thatcher and Mr Heseltine among them , who seem to enjoy meeting ordinary people . |
| 26 | The most difficult theoretical surveys are those which seem to promise to answer difficult questions about art in general , perhaps especially in the modern world . |
| 27 | I seem to 've had bad vibes about you lately . |
| 28 | Procedures for obtaining funding , however , seem designed to stifle any enterprise and initiative . |
| 29 | Some government policies seem designed to achieve greater income equality by redistributing income from more affluent to poorer groups . |
| 30 | I seem to remember seeing that years ago . |