Example sentences of "seem [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 2 | In the end , it seemed that sex was all you ever wanted from me . |
| 3 | Thus it seemed that physics was more mature then chemistry , and had already left behind the stage of effervescent and explosive progress in which that science was still so visibly engaged . |
| 4 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 5 | When , in July 1939 , it seemed that war was inevitable , the Poles decided to give the French and the British the results of their research , as well as two actual Enigma machines . |
| 6 | With his most famous work , the miner 's safety-lamp , it seemed that science was saving lives as well as boosting the economy . |
| 7 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 8 | It seemed another play was about to be abandoned but he finally arrived and leapt up to the platform to make a rather more dignified ‘ Entry into Jerusalem ’ . |
| 9 | It is worth noting that there are not a few cases where constructions containing postverbal adjectives are equivalent to different structures having the same subject and the same adjectival and verbal properties , but with the former now in ordinary predicative position and the latter replaced by an adverb : ( 61 ) Mario seemed regretful Mario was apparently regretful ( 62 ) the sharks remain dangerous the sharks are still dangerous This is exactly what could have been expected , given structure ( 47 ) . |
| 10 | A systematic plate can also easily date , as classifications change : what seemed species are reclassed as races , and what seemed close species are put into different genera . |
| 11 | It seemed both sides were optimistic last night that an agreement could be reached . |
| 12 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 13 | In this case , it seems that Creole is being used , perhaps with its " jocular " symbolic value , to comment on the baby and its " cute " activities . |
| 14 | Instead , it seems that money is to be spent in an almost futile attempt to attract to the bay , at a time of recession , companies and start-up projects that , by rights , should be located elsewhere . |
| 15 | However , it seems that leave is refused for between a quarter and a third of all AJRs , and this might suggest that the leave requirement is performing some other function such as keeping the number of pending AJRs down so that the delay between the granting of leave and the hearing is not too great . |
| 16 | Now , after experiment rather than speculation , it seems that stabilimenta are really early warning landmarks for birds . |
| 17 | It seems that androgyny is psychologically and socially valuable for women ( Jones et al . |
| 18 | It seems that education is not even essential to happiness . |
| 19 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 20 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 21 | It is important not to be inflexible when looking at housing options , although sometimes it seems that dogma is of overriding importance to staff and , indeed , more important than finding solutions which suit individuals . |
| 22 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 23 | Meggitt contrasts the ‘ ritualised ’ literacy supposedly apparent in Melanesian politico-religious movements with a model of what literacy ‘ really ’ is in a way that obviously owes much to Goody : ‘ It seems that writing was rarely treated as a straightforward technique of secular action , one whose prime values is repeated and surrogate communication of unambiguous meanings in a variety of situations ’ ( 1968 , p. 302 ) . |
| 24 | It seems that symmetry is a useful means of combating a dominant force , such as gravity . |
| 25 | From the bidding so far it seems that East is sitting over North with a strong and long diamond holding . |
| 26 | Finally , it seems that attempt are being made in the United Kingdom , Flanders , and the Netherlands to create a more positive image and role for residential care ( see National Institute of Social Work , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | We encountered one agency offering ( free ) training to its contractors via a system of credit points acquired through service , but it seems this practice is unusual . |
| 28 | But it seems some employers are seeing the potential . |
| 29 | It seems these humans are often — unwell — a kind of failure even to non-scuttle . |
| 30 | Innocence may be the first casualty of war , as the posters for the film boldly quoted , but it seems good taste is the first casualty in computer-game marketing . |