Example sentences of "it seem [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to amuse the studio crew . |
| 2 | At the start it seemed to improve the matches but it , they 've just become too hectic now I think . |
| 3 | Thirdly it seemed to represent the beginnings of the healing of the relationship between God and humanity . |
| 4 | Commented NAPF : ‘ It seemed to represent the pinnacle of a well thought out programme of communication between the scheme and the members , providing plenty of notice of change and the opportunity to request further information . |
| 5 | Such a noise — it seemed to split the sky open . |
| 6 | His voice was hoarse , like a whisper , but it seemed to fill the room . |
| 7 | The Pill seemed to symbolise the free woman — sexy and single , and so it seemed to prefigure the women 's liberation movement 's quest for pleasure and independence . |
| 8 | Teresa Bazar of the pop group Dollar remembered her night with Nicholas and it seemed to capture the predicament to a tee . |
| 9 | It seemed to withstand the onslaught of bicycles , tricycles and roller skates with scarcely a scratch to show . |
| 10 | It seemed to solve the problem because the first cow , confronted by the bar , stood quietly and I was able to clip the hair on her neck through an opening between the planks . |
| 11 | It was obviously written as encouragement to the soldiers and families separated during the long years of the Second World War , but it seemed to express the yearning that so many young men must have felt when they were far from their families , desolate and frightened : |
| 12 | Nevertheless , in conjunction with the classical themes of interactionism , it seemed to offer the basis for a new , resurgent classical criminology . |
| 13 | In his eyes , it seemed to demean the art . |
| 14 | Our father , Fa , was an agent for India 's Inland Navigation so that we ( our mother , Mam , my three sisters , Jon , Nancy and Rose , and I ) lived on the banks of Assam 's and Bengal 's great rivers , sometimes two miles wide , flowing through land so flat that it seemed to meet the sky all round like an inverted bowl . |
| 15 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 16 | It seemed to have the knack of attracting some of the most bizarre characters who spent a great deal of the inter-war years building up little empires for themselves with scant regard for any overall espionage policy . |
| 17 | At one point it parodies Richardson , at another it seems to realize the ambition to compose a satirical work called The Marylandiad of Ebenezer Cook , the author of another of Barth 's proto-texts , the poem ‘ The Sot-Weed Factor ’ . |
| 18 | It seems to inhibit the attention that can be paid to the needs and natures of different young people living in different communities . |
| 19 | This was a consistent finding in all the research reported in this thesis , it seems to reflect the fact that even simulated driving tasks are highly engaging and quite unlike the tasks psychologists usually ask their subjects to perform . |
| 20 | It seems to ignore the way in which existing fares are calculated' including as they do an element of ‘ taper ’ to avoid long journeys made up of several different sectors ‘ bolted together ’ from becoming too high : again something which would be difficult to replicate in a situation where the railways were operated by numerous regional franchises . |
| 21 | Rather , it has been used as a retardant of the progression of AIDS , largely on the basis that it seems to sustain the subpopulation of T cells that appears especially vulnerable to HIV in the overt stage of the disease . |
| 22 | It is no accident that it seems to confirm the position of animals near the foot of our thumbnail hierarchy or ‘ order of obligation ’ , discussed in previous sections . |
| 23 | I wo n't go into the EMG system in extreme detail , because we 're presently preparing a special acoustic pickup article in which we can compare it against the other big names , but it seems to suit the Lowden very well . |
| 24 | It seems to invert the hierarchy , apparently renouncing the modernist insistence on difference and originality , and seeking value instead in repetition in its various forms : recombination , refunctioning , pastiche . |
| 25 | But it seems to misuse the notion of an error which is merely verbal . |
| 26 | It seems to rot the backbone out of good men . ’ |
| 27 | While it seems to involve the development of a national policy for the disabled , in practice its dependence upon local government makes it a gesture in which central government involvement is comparatively slight . |
| 28 | It seems to fit the process described well enough . |
| 29 | This massive Japanese sportswear giant has always had the resources to make an impact in the running market , now it seems to have the will . |
| 30 | The artefact , on the other hand , tends to imply a certain innocence of facticity ; it seems to offer the clarity of realism , an assertion of certainty against the buffeting of debate , an end or resting point which resolves the disorder of uncertain perspectives . |