Example sentences of "seem [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It seemed the least Harry could promise .
2 At home , whenever I visited , he always seemed the same docile , attractive child sitting silently watching TV in the impeccably tidy and attractive furnished living room of the very small , terraced house .
3 The clientele seemed the same sort of rich mixture as ever , and the game of guessing who was what — could the distinguished looking old boy be a Thuringian baron , the owner of a launderette chain in South Dakota or a villain from South Croydon ? — kept all its old charm .
4 Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing .
5 Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago .
6 One critic thought it ironic that this building ‘ of which the aim was so obviously beauty , should have achieved so startling an ugliness ’ , but after more than a century Swanage would hardly seem the same place without it .
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