Example sentences of "that seem [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 2 | Maria shuddered convulsively as she felt her nipple rolled between diabolically skilled finger and thumb , the mini-spasm of ecstasy gratifying and tormenting all at once , and ultimately cruelly deceptive because it brought no resolution or peace , only an even deeper hunger that seemed to plumb the deeps of the most secret levels of self . |
| 3 | Sharpe felt the anger then ; the cold anger that seemed to slow the passage of time itself and make everything appear so very distinctly . |
| 4 | Back on the storm-front , lightning flashed and thunder exploded in long runs that seemed to envelop the length of the mountain chain as if spread by a giant paint-roller . |
| 5 | Rather they appeared as a selection — and a selection that seemed to reflect the interests of the powerful . |
| 6 | It was uncomfortable , and it was particularly uncomfortable in light of the faint dislike that seemed to shade the depths of those denim-dark eyes . |
| 7 | As we struggled up the hill with brambles and goose-grass snatching at our clothes there was an almighty clap of thunder together with a flash of lightning that seemed to strike the Jubilee Tower . |
| 8 | The only ball that seemed to find the pocket was the white , in a bad dream of in-offs and in-withs — plus , from Julian , a world-class in-instead , the cue-ball struck with such prodigious unintentional sidespin that after a deadened impact it ambled on grimly into the corner bag . |
| 9 | But his run-out reprieve was only one element of a pervasive suspicion that seemed to saturate the Pakistan camp . |
| 10 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 11 | She moved in a way that seemed to emphasize the body beneath the clothes , to hint at the purposes to which it might be put . |
| 12 | He was such a strange combination , sitting there so still and enigmatic , giving absolutely nothing away , yet managing to exude a raw and infinitely disturbing male power that seemed to threaten the female in her . |
| 13 | Some moths even emit bat-like ( ultra- ) sounds that seem to put the bats off . |
| 14 | In this report we review the sequence of changes in liver allografts performed in a series of HBV surface antigen ( HBsAg ) positive patients , and described the clinical and pathological factors that seem to influence the course of recurrent HBV infection . |
| 15 | There is a simple , logical point that seems to support the falsificationist here . |
| 16 | ‘ The semiconductor market also is being helped by the gradual global economic recovery that began in the US in the fourth quarter of 1992 ’ — remark that seems to ignore the fact that continental Europe is plunging into ever deeper recession while the jury is out on whether recession has bottomed in Japan.The North American market should reach $23,600m in shipments in 1993 for a growth rate of 28.1% . |
| 17 | Other workers have shown increased expression of the carbohydrate antigen sialyl Lewis X in chronic hepatitis , with an intensity that seems to mirror the severity of the disease , and the same antigen may be associated with tumour . |
| 18 | Or that moment that all warriors know , the hush that seems to silence the wind itself , as the day of battle dawns . |
| 19 | Although , as we have seen , it is possible to step outside this framework , and find an alternative that seems to fit the life style of the person who has died better than a traditional church funeral , in practice it is extremely difficult to do this . |
| 20 | It is one of the commonplaces of interpretation of the Nun 's Priest 's Tale that the reader/listener is spoilt for choice of morals to be drawn from the tale at the end , when the Nun 's Priest refers to the moral with a throwaway carelessness that seems to suggest the moral is so obvious that he need not state it . |
| 21 | All over the world , standards of beauty vary ; fat women can become the ideal , or those with small feet , or tall women , or those with blue eyes , or whatever it is that seems to capture the spirit of beauty for a particular time and place . |
| 22 | Mr Andy Lane , museum curator , said : ‘ In every war there is a picture that seems to capture the moment and the spirit . |