Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the ordinary and the extraordinary seemed to coincide at the same point . |
| 3 | And somehow all her own reservations and objections seemed to evaporate at the same time . |
| 4 | She seemed to shudder at the very thought . |
| 5 | It is clear that computer designers need the chemists ' understanding of the physical and chemical properties of silicon and the III-Vs and the rules under which they seem to operate at the atomic and molecular levels . |
| 6 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 7 | The refusal is as understandable as it is naive , but seems to constitute at the same time what amounts to an abnegation of intellectual curiosity about human needs . |
| 8 | This seems to strike at the very heart of many of the cases which are made against firms of accountants . |