Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Teessiders seemed to sense that the Rokermen were starting to wilt and in the 62nd minute it looked as though Middlesbrough had finally found a way through . |
| 2 | The house was ablaze with lights , and the sound of music coming from inside seemed to promise that the party would not be as dull as Sophie feared . |
| 3 | The village seemed to shimmer as the heat made everything look as though it was under water . |
| 4 | It scarcely seemed to matter while the deals came rolling in . |
| 5 | Razak seemed to accept that the ZOPFAN and the Soviet proposals supplemented each other to some extent . |
| 6 | Christopher also seemed to indicate that the United States and its allies were considering a programme to provide Russia a kind of social safety net as it moves to free markets . |
| 7 | Kodiak barked a farewell , the moose antlers seemed to wave and the ripples on Lough Corrib frowned at me reproachfully . |
| 8 | This may , of course , have been a retrospective opinion that was at least tinged with 25 years ' subsequent experience and challenged , both before and after , the worldwide definitions of the late 1940s which seemed to require that the Vietminh should have been put into either one of two boxes , nationalist or communist , but not both . |
| 9 | Opposition Members seemed to suggest that the hold-up was resources , but there are other factors , not least the fact , that , if we needed primary legislation , it would come on stream in about 1993 , when the responsibility for assessment and the decision about what to pay passes to local authorities . |
| 10 | He seemed to suggest that the problems with the policy had largely been caused by the Government withdrawing funding from local government for domiciliary and other services , thus forcing people into residential care . |
| 11 | It seemed to suggest that the GLC and the LTE must try to break even , a course which was certainly feasible if fares were sufficiently increased and services sufficiently reduced , but which was politically as unacceptable to the government as it was anathema to the GLC . |
| 12 | European Tour 's pace of play regulations but his reaction seemed to suggest that the punishment would n't have the desired effect . |
| 13 | In an earlier paper ( Huxley , 1991a ) I presented the evidence available at that time which seemed to suggest that the effectiveness of case management in various contexts depends upon narrowly defined groups , focused care and relevant outcome assessments . |
| 14 | " only result seemed to shew that the parents of Stockport families preferred a cheap commercial education to a more expensive higher intellectual one and that the latter was necessarily more costly and that the Grammar School fees could not possibly be reduced to the level of the Technical School fees , that School being subsidised by Excise Duties and Government Grants to the amount of double the fees received from Scholars . " |
| 15 | He concentrated on the women finishing and seemed to forget that the men 's race finished elsewhere . |
| 16 | The ILP leadership , particularly Maxton , seemed to believe that the Communists could be beaten with their own tactics . |
| 17 | Supporters of this argument seemed to believe that the paper could defy the laws of journalistic and financial gravity . |
| 18 | She seemed to believe that the truth was great and would prevail , so why waste time spinning a lot of fancy theories ? |
| 19 | ‘ Khan , why — ’ Suddenly he seemed to realise that the cut on Burun 's arm had ceased to bleed . |
| 20 | Reginald Bray , who was associated with the settlement movement in Camberwell , even seemed to doubt whether the youths needed to sleep , describing in 1904 how they would stay out on the streets ‘ until it is dark , and often in summer until dawn begins to break … the street and not the house ought probably to be regarded as the home ’ . |
| 21 | These seemed to imply that the products were officially ‘ approved ’ , yet many were high in sugar . |
| 22 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 23 | But things seemed to change as the story progressed . |
| 24 | It was even more extraordinary that the hon. Gentleman seemed to think that the measure had something to do with the poll tax . |
| 25 | The Clarion ( 24 December 1898 ) seemed to think that the Home Secretary 's intransigence was some kind of Malthusian plot : In another discussion of ‘ Those Pistol Cases ’ The Daily Graphic ( 15 February 1898 ) had taken a more traditional line , recommending more traditional remedies : ‘ If birching and short sentences will not stop it , then more birching and longer sentences will have to be tried . ’ |
| 26 | Gloucester Place seemed awash with the carriages of other guests attending the ball and Emily chafed as she sat waiting impatiently to move on , watched by ladies ' maids and servants of the lower orders who seemed to think that the spectacle was for their pleasure . |
| 27 | Some of them even seemed to think that the ego was a sort of ectoplasm that walked — or perhaps swam — about in the head ! |
| 28 | Sir Thomas Moore , seizing on the Teddy Boys as a further opportunity to sing the praises of the birch twigs , seemed to think that the name itself was a slander against the peaceful Edwardian years : ‘ On a point of order … |
| 29 | This was enough for Hennessy , who seemed to think that the policeman and the Captain were starting to get on too damn well for his liking . |
| 30 | Kypov never complained , never did anything about it , seemed to think that the chiller his office the more masculine and vigorous he was . |