Example sentences of "seem [adj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’ |
| 2 | The conditions seemed right for a repetition of the French Revolution on English soil . |
| 3 | Further acts of aggression by the Soviet bloc seemed possible in a number of vulnerable regions such as Germany and Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | Initially the reasoning behind this law seemed sensible for a region like Champagne , which is set in a viticultural twilight zone where the size of harvest fluctuates from year to year . |
| 5 | In public hardline rhetoric also seemed appropriate at a time when McCarthy and his communist witch-hunt were riding high . |
| 6 | The old man seemed lost for a moment . |
| 7 | He began to nibble the lobe of her ear and seemed lost for a moment until she gave him a little shake to encourage him to go on and explain . |
| 8 | Curtis was a very large man whose tiny facial features seemed lost in a desert of moist , granular skin . |
| 9 | All seemed set for an experiment in unity . |
| 10 | The choice seemed curious for a scientist . |
| 11 | This choice had advantages of feasibility , but was not made without the reservation that advantages for the generic approach might lie in its ability to transcend client group stereotypes ; this seemed less of a problem , however , with elderly people , who fall rather less ambiguously into a self-contained category of client than some others . |
| 12 | Our policy-making seemed stuck in a time warp in which we saw our role as offering help to a disadvantaged majority against a privileged minority — seemingly unaware that income is no longer distributed in a pattern that is pyramidal , but is egg-shaped . |
| 13 | Tony assured me that there was a supermarket in the village , which seemed unlikely in a place that had less than ten houses , but turned out to be almost true — — the garage sold bits and pieces . |
| 14 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 15 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 16 | We 've just gone through Armistice Day and I was and it 's always made , made me feel there 's something a little bit wrong about Armistice , it seemed more of a glorification in the way |
| 17 | This eldest boy seemed remorseful for a moment . |
| 18 | It seemed ridiculous in a country that recognised a mixed economy , respected private wealth and acknowledged that a rich man could live in almost every respect infinitely better than a poor one . |
| 19 | The forces of bourgeois society were opposed to slavery and serfdom not simply because they believed them to be economically undesirable , nor for moral reasons , but because they seemed incompatible with a market society based on the free pursuit of individual interest . |
| 20 | Moreover , prospects for new publishing ventures seemed bleak at a time when the print runs of even state-owned newspapers were being crippled by an acute paper shortage caused by inefficiency and technological obsolescence in the timber and pulp-and-paper industries . |
| 21 | The time seemed ripe for a cabinet and prime ministerial intervention which would give Britain a higher profile space policy . |
| 22 | The new Russian leaders seemed anxious for a thaw in the Cold War , and despite Dulles " reservations , the President agreed to a " summit " meeting at Geneva in July 1955 . |
| 23 | Both sides seemed appalled for a while by the race they had started . |
| 24 | Both seem unnecessary for a hotel surrounded by the best in London 's culinary stakes but evening drinks can be arranged if requested . |
| 25 | You seem fit as a fiddle , Mr Blake . |
| 26 | A lake and a big reedbed seem unlikely in a town centre , but at Weymouth some excellent wildlife habitat has survived to become an RSPB reserve . |
| 27 | The latter seem more of a pretext for trouble than a cause of it . |
| 28 | There are teenage cousins in the local schools and obviously there is plenty of contact and company and they seem close as a family . |
| 29 | When research goes further and links ends and means , it can help us gauge the significance of factors that seem relevant to a situation . |
| 30 | Accordingly , it may at first sight seem advantageous to a landlord to grant such a tenancy . |