Example sentences of "and seem [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grass was shrivelled and blackened and the leafless branches stood out against the grey morning and seemed to reach skeletal fingers towards them . |
| 2 | He says that Cromwell once more lectured him ‘ tediously ’ and seemed to pay little attention to Baxter 's views . |
| 3 | Two were giggling together and seemed to know each other . |
| 4 | The men spoke of him in genuinely affectionate terms , in spite of his nickname , and seemed to have great confidence in him . |
| 5 | But , as far as I was concerned , he was just another rockabilly who 'd park his flash motor out the front and seemed to have more money than all the rest of us put together . |
| 6 | Macca looked a class act , some great passing , and seemed to have more time on the ball than anyone else , but he did n't get into the game quite often enough . |
| 7 | She told me she made a point of taking a walk each day to get out of the way of all the old people , but I was reassured when I saw that she was well-known at the café and seemed to have several friends among its patrons . |
| 8 | The pain of the body and the greatness of the soul are equally balanced throughout the composition of the figure and seem to cancel each other out . |
| 9 | The MACs are tightly guarded and seem to engender fierce loyalty in their users . |
| 10 | These preferences and expectations are now reversed ( table 4.4 ) , and seem to offer further evidence in support of Becker 's view that the better-off will eventually have more children than others . |
| 11 | They are caused by micro-organisms feeding on the size and cellulose fibres and seem to attack certain types of books more than others , perhaps because of the quality of the paper or some fault in its manufacture . |
| 12 | Some visually handicapped pupils have good central vision and seem to have little difficulty in reading , but poor peripheral vision can give them problems in managing their environment . |
| 13 | It is a popular place for watersports and seems to host colourful regattas on the water almost every week . |
| 14 | Subjective comments about John : ‘ He is said to be hyperactive and seems to show bizarre behaviour ’ ( lines 8 and 9 ) . |
| 15 | That technique has been considered by many interested in waste management , because it achieves considerably higher volumes of reduction than incineration , and seems to offer good prospects for even better pollution control standards . |
| 16 | This method is infinitely more economical of tubes than the classical method and seems to produce effective remedies . |