Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was standing in the doorway , his lean frame clad in a loose-fitting tawny-coloured suit that seemed to emphasise the taut muscle that lay beneath it . |
| 2 | She loved the country life of the estate and could have been entirely happy were it not for Stephen 's habitual absences which only seemed to emphasise the constant presence of his mother . |
| 3 | Much of the early proceedings seemed to confirm the recent resurgence of the conservative wing , as witnessed at the June founding congress of the Russian Federation Communist Party [ see pp. 37538-39 ] . |
| 4 | He seemed to like the easy life down there in Alba , or feasting with Popes and with Emperors further south . |
| 5 | No one seemed to like the dry enervating and dusty climate of the Hollywood hills . |
| 6 | They seemed to enjoy the whole thing a hundred times more than your average blasé concert-goer . ’ |
| 7 | With its headbanging title , your issue on the Politics of Greed ( NI 188 ) seemed to promise the usual hellfire and damnation about the iniquities of Thatcher , Reagan and Co . |
| 8 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is an oddity that he seemed to see the criminal justice system as being the only aspect of the environment that influences individual decisions about whether it is worthwhile to commit crime or not . |
| 10 | The eyes smouldered for a moment at the impertinence , then he seemed to see the funny side and chuckled hoarsely . |
| 11 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
| 12 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 13 | Nicholson did n't turn , hardly seemed to acknowledge the other voice . |
| 14 | When our love was young , we would exchange presents — small tokens , often meaningless in themselves , but which seemed to enclose the very essence of their donor . |
| 15 | However , Kenneth Clark , who replied for the government , was not encouraging and seemed to accept the pessimistic view of Neville Trotter , Conservative MP for Tyne mouth , who blamed all the problems on Korean labour costs which were only 20% of those in the UK . |
| 16 | But she seemed to accept the Glaswegian accent and his story of having left Scotland for London in his teens . |
| 17 | In spite of the difficulties caused by the weather , Carrie produced a meal of baked rabbit , potatoes , swede and carrots and put it in front of Seb while the wind rattled the door and windows and an occasional gust seemed to shake the very house itself . |
| 18 | The times of death seemed to span the whole day , but he could n't be sure the thirty-eight covered everybody who died that day because the numbers of each certificate did n't add up to a complete sequence . |
| 19 | The elephant not only pipped dolphin and tiger to the post to emerge as overall winner , but also seemed to attract the greatest loyalty in voters . |
| 20 | Other Jewish families living in the warren of neighbouring streets where the rows of cramped houses confronted their twins at almost arm-stretching distance had no such suggestion of exclusiveness and seemed to encourage the natural ebullience of their inhabitants as well as confirming their more straitened circumstances . |
| 21 | No other flowers were in the garden , yet I seemed to smell the strong scent of nicotiana . |
| 22 | ‘ Everyone was frantic to get out but no one seemed to know the quickest way . |
| 23 | You … well , you just seemed to catch the rough edge of it . ’ |
| 24 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 25 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 26 | But my ignorance was not only mental torture , but my body seemed to suffer the intensest agony . |
| 27 | It seemed to tighten the tenuous link between them , even as she wept for him . |
| 28 | The room was gloomy , filled with massive , mahogany furniture and pervaded by a musty smell which seemed to characterise the whole house . |
| 29 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 30 | In preliminary studies , we have found that in primary rat glial and neuronal cells that were transfected with human bcl-2 , the anti-Bcl-2 antibody also seemed to stain the nuclear envelope and ER ( M.D.J. and J. Voyvodic , unpublished data ) . |