Example sentences of "seem in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the government seemed in no particular hurry to press its charges against him . |
| 2 | At Cromcruach he 'd met a mechanic named Mike , who seemed in a terrible state . |
| 3 | ‘ I could see that he had not had a drink yet and I was doubly surprised that he seemed in a good mood . ’ |
| 4 | Yet on the other hand governments were quite willing to disregard clearly expressed public feeling when this seemed in the national interest . |
| 5 | That first visit when I stayed at the Al Ain Hilton seemed in the dim past . |
| 6 | " He seemed in an awful state about something . " |
| 7 | My stomach turned over as I watched the ball heading for the out-of-bounds , but to my relief it looked as though it had stayed in , even if it seemed in an awful spot . |
| 8 | She was oddly quiet , seemed in an odd mood altogether , though not an unhappy one : while they were eating she sat staring over the valley with a dreamy look in her eyes and a small , secret smile on her face . |
| 9 | There was intense concern over the financial and social costs of absorbing hundreds of thousands of refugees who now flooded in from the East , but West Germany seemed in an excellent position to exploit the likely expansion of trade with Eastern Europe in future . |
| 10 | I felt grateful to my publishers for their insistence that we guard against any change of mind by my secret collaborators — unlikely as that had seemed in the frigid era of Brezhnev . |
| 11 | Since the direction of the direct and the indirect effect is the same ( which need not always be so ) , the size of the effect of job type on absenteeism would not be as large once sex was controlled as it had seemed in the bivariate relationship . |
| 12 | For instance , If you are talking to a neighbour and he or she seems in no particular rush , then invite him or her in for an impromptu cup of something . |
| 13 | Even though Compaq Computer Corp is infatuated with the NeXT Computer Inc 's NextStep environment , claiming it delivers today what the Taligent IBM Corp/Apple Computer Inc joint venture can only promise , and what Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co have yet to materialise , it seems in no particular hurry to cut that OEM deal Steve Jobs is after . |
| 14 | Everyone seems in a real hurry , even when they 're looking through books . |
| 15 | Carmichael seems in an expansive mood and talks philosophy . |
| 16 | This suggestion seems in the right neighbourhood , for if checkerboard solutions do have a defect , it must lie in their distinctive feature , that they treat people differently when no principle can justify the distinction . |
| 17 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |
| 18 | There should be the the aca station if you like , there should be the documentation , and it certainly seems in the New Testament that that is speaking with other tongues , it 's not the only thing of course . |
| 19 | It has been very widely noted by careful editors such as Hall ( 1920 ) , and ( although the atlas map shows some West Midland distribution ) it seems in the early part of the period to be most common in texts originating in the East Midlands , East Anglia and the South . |
| 20 | ‘ Tim , it could be happening at last although the pain seems in the wrong place . ’ |