Example sentences of "seem [adj] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Manchu was eating with economy , and seemed oblivious to the strangeness of his surroundings , but Alexei was sitting frozen , unable to conceal his disbelief as he watched a Yek officer impaling his meat with claws which were easily three centimetres long . |
| 2 | If the tests were truly designed for the control of ‘ anti-social influences in the arts ’ , as the Report said , then how could the law seem other than misconceived when a decade or more of legal scrutiny and barristers ' banter had been publicly squandered on the anti-social potential of pubic hair , the peculiar dangers of which seemed clearer to the police than to juries . |
| 3 | This left only 20 per cent who reported a degree of pain which seemed appropriate to the nature and amount of their injury . |
| 4 | Hollywood 's fictional mode seemed worthless to the lovers of the other arts although they were rarely honest about either the problems facing film-makers or their own responses to the diversified output of the studios . |
| 5 | Andropulos , whom Grierson had reported as having a remarkable affinity for scotch , seemed relaxed to the point of garrulity . |
| 6 | Looking back , the superintendent 's solution seemed obvious to the sergeant . |
| 7 | It was quite a large room , though the huge wood veneered desk seemed equal to the task of filling half of it . |
| 8 | Two inscriptions from the early fourth century show that it did not always do so ( Tod 103 , 108 = WV 7 , HD 20 ) : they have the unusual opening formula ‘ it seemed good to the Council ’ . |
| 9 | The normal formula is ‘ it seemed good to the Council and People ’ , indicating that the decree had been prepared for the Assembly ( ‘ the people ’ ) by the Council , and was then voted on by the Assembly . |
| 10 | From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen , which reads : ‘ It seemed good to the men of Sounion : since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1 , so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein ’ … ( the last word is untranslatable : ‘ carry on all the activities usual in an agora ’ is accurate but too prosaic ; there is also the sense of ‘ promenading oneself : Syll. 925 ) . |
| 11 | All at once one of the birds — it seemed enormous to the child , but may well have been as small as a sparrow — flew into the air and fluttered past the pushchair , its wings actually brushing the little girl 's face . |
| 12 | Even Marsco seemed resigned to the fact that the Rorims will not combine . ’ |
| 13 | " Oh , a little pale perhaps , " murmured Amabel , because paleness seemed essential to the occasion , although with dear nut-brown Gemma it was rather hard to tell . |
| 14 | The territory belonged to the King of Holland who was quite willing to part with it , and although the transfer would have meant the removal of a Prussian garrison which had been installed there since 1815 , Bismarck at first seemed indifferent to the transaction . |
| 15 | The radical other-worldliness of such people seemed incomprehensible to the authorities . |
| 16 | Of all those seated in the office only Buchanan seemed impervious to the heat . |
| 17 | It seemed remote to the point of impossibility . |
| 18 | In addition , since the Directive did not define investors , it seemed conclusive to the Court that it was not intended to give them enforceable rights . |
| 19 | All the same , Dustin does some things that seem strange to the natives , like making the Woodstock peace sign to the yobbish workmen , who return it mockingly , and also by playing loud bagpipe music on the record-player when the vicar and his wife pay a call . |
| 20 | The point here is that the order of topics would then , we hope , seem sensible to the informant . |
| 21 | DESPITE the seasonal campaign against drink-driving , courts still seem oblivious to the seriousness of this offence . |
| 22 | The complexity of the issues involved makes the model of bipolar adversary presentation of fixed positions by parties in conflict seem inappropriate to the sound resolution of the issues involved . |
| 23 | In the March issue of RUNNING Magazine , Mr G. Bamtik , a budding triathlete from Kent , complained about sports manufacturers who seem blind to the needs of bifocal wearers . |
| 24 | Many common tests of perceptual functioning , memory or skilled performance seem insensitive to the effects of sleep loss . |
| 25 | When research goes further and links ends and means , it can help us gauge the significance of factors that seem relevant to a situation . |
| 26 | We have abstracted away from particular contexts , across communicative contexts in general , to arrive at a set of features , some of which seem relevant to the identification of a speech event as being of a particular kind , to the ability of the hearer to predict what sort of thing the speaker is likely to say in a given type of context , and to the constraining of interpretation in context . |
| 27 | Communication may break down because the task of the manager and the volunteer is diverging , so that the manager 's activities seem distant to the volunteer . |
| 28 | Accordingly , it may at first sight seem advantageous to a landlord to grant such a tenancy . |
| 29 | True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading . |
| 30 | The right punishment is the one which seems right to the parent and which works . |