Example sentences of "seem to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how it seemed to the mystified outsider . |
| 2 | This , of course , was not how it seemed to the European powers which held authority over the Middle East after the 1914–18 war . |
| 3 | Another disc started , Herr Hocher placing it on the record-player with his own hands , the result being a foxtrot played by a Russian orchestra , and he himself took the floor with Fräulein Renn , the pair of them going through what seemed to the young people weirdly funny gyrations together . |
| 4 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 5 | An increase in the noise level and glimpses of exotic vegetables told her that they were in a market street , and it seemed to the over-sensitive Meredith that Lucenzo was almost continually returning greetings and brushing off sympathetic offers of help . |
| 6 | The £50 offered daily to the first AE to get a bike back with a client 's cheque , seemed to the world-weary AEs worth more than three times the equivalent , as paid at the end of the month . |
| 7 | Although intended to demonstrate to all the world what the Industrial Revolution had achieved in England , the Exhibition seemed to the discriminating evidence rather of what it had destroyed . |
| 8 | When Hannah was a child , running water meant the stream in the field and such things as electricity , the internal combustion engine and even the wireless were available only on another planet or so it must have seemed to the average resident of this remote and lovely but intensely deprived valley . |
| 9 | Though a reconsecrated Chad was shortly afterwards appointed bishop of Lichfield with Oswiu 's consent , this must have seemed to the northern king a high-handed way for the new archbishop to act . |
| 10 | It therefore seems to the logical residents of our borough that there was a swing in Southend from the Liberal Democrats to both Conservative and to Labour . |
| 11 | It seems to the Senior Management Team that the personal objectives of individual members of the department and institutional and departmental objectives are very largely congruent and that our recommendations are a way of achieving , we hope , both . |
| 12 | All I would say with regard to that is is it would seem to the regional office that consideration of those proposals that were in conflict with a with an approved development plan would be erm more easily facilitated if there was an approved strategic context against which they could be judged . |
| 13 | She was aware how awkward she must seem to the older woman , if not exactly all fingers and thumbs , certainly all arms and legs . |
| 14 | This may not be true , but certainly in listening to conversational English one does encounter a very large number of these and they do seem to the native speaker to have some perhaps indefinable ‘ feel ’ of something negative present in the background , as suggested above , on p. 139 ) . |