Example sentences of "seem [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end , the traitor of the English clan hurled his credit cards at his parents ’ grave in what seemed to be a symbol for throwing bad money after good . |
| 2 | After two years of difficult negotiations , the agreement seemed to be a brand plucked from the burning . |
| 3 | ‘ It seemed to be a credible account , ’ Mr Callan said . |
| 4 | I went into the bedroom where Alison was lying down in what seemed to be a state of shock . |
| 5 | He seemed to be a lot more cheerful and appeared to have recovered from his bout of depression of the previous evening . |
| 6 | There seemed to be a shortage of shell dressings . |
| 7 | It seemed to be a very important project but the Area Health Authority felt it would be ‘ unethical ’ . |
| 8 | It seemed to be a sign of status . |
| 9 | Yet many people in Victorian Britain were not indifferent to the widening divisions between rich and poor that seemed to be a consequence of this ideology . |
| 10 | The new ‘ Queen Anne ’ manner of the time seemed to be a style that would permit greater freedom of planning and lacked the associations with religion evoked by neo-Gothic forms . |
| 11 | When The Smiths first appeared they seemed to be a reaction against the opulence/corpulence of nouveau riche new pop . |
| 12 | There seemed to be a block in her chest so that she could not breathe properly . |
| 13 | This seemed to be a place where , despite noises in the night and a few dangers like trees that grew inside you and made your throat choke , a person might feel sale for always . |
| 14 | She came of a family whose heads felt cold in the night ( their father had worn a nightcap ) and now she rose to a sitting position looking , in the gloom , like some eastern potentate , her beautiful nose and high forehead all surmounted by what seemed to be a turban but was actually some sort of woolly garment skilfully disposed about her head . |
| 15 | Next came a pair of thick socks wrinkling about the ankles , and then what seemed to be a pair of men 's shoes . |
| 16 | Despite what seemed to be a nice little boom , British productivity had grown more slowly than that of any comparable European country : 40 per cent compared with Germany 's and Italy 's 150 per cent , not to consider Japan 's 400 per cent . |
| 17 | As he approached , it seemed to be a crumpled sheet of paper , brilliant on the cold , dark earth . |
| 18 | Somewhere , far away , there seemed to be a rapping at the door and someone was calling his name , over and over , louder and louder … |
| 19 | Only Ashley House had given Dickinson no training problems , but , good chaser as he was , he seemed to be a little out of his depth here . |
| 20 | Everyone who worked there seemed to be a Kenny . |
| 21 | Almost at once , there seemed to be a series of victories reported with which Wilson could not keep up . |
| 22 | He was delighted that ‘ Dissenters ' Gothic ’ seemed to be a thing of the past . |
| 23 | The loss of Mr Moynihan 's seat marks the end of a career of one who once seemed to be a young Tory success story . |
| 24 | I continued along a path over the bluffs following a waymarked nature trail , where the main animal life seemed to be a few pregnant sheep blowing about dangerously close to death on the rocks below . |
| 25 | Now he has gained what seemed to be a pipe-dream , a seat in the Cabinet . |
| 26 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 27 | There seemed to be a high proportion of classical scholars — Denys Page , Hugh Last and T. B. L. Webster among them — which was not surprising given the traditional Civil Service preference for the logical mind associated with the products of Greats or the Cambridge Classical Tripos . |
| 28 | The afternoon round is recorded hole by hole and seemed to be a battle of Braid 's prodigious length and power , against Jones ' precise iron play . |
| 29 | To her , at least , he seemed to be a part of the gaiety , having a wonderful time . |
| 30 | As Golby passed the turnpike gate , he noticed what seemed to be a pile of rags beside the road . |