Example sentences of "seem [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found this vaguely reassuring ; a short , sharp death seemed preferable to a long , slow chewing underwater . |
| 2 | Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’ |
| 3 | I appreciate the arguments that go on nowadays , but let us not forget that the old crossings were not suitable for the disabled , which is why , in the case to which I am referring , it seemed unnecessary for the authority to insist on a ramp being built . |
| 4 | Mr Lamont seemed half-hearted about the measures which he introduced . |
| 5 | The conditions seemed right for a repetition of the French Revolution on English soil . |
| 6 | She had done everything that seemed right in the circumstances . |
| 7 | Yes Norman Lamont you 're right erm even the demise was suggested that the square sausage , which seemed possible on the basis of the conversion of metric tables and if you do n't know what the square sausage is , the G M B Scotland delegates will only be too happy er to give you the answer . |
| 8 | Further acts of aggression by the Soviet bloc seemed possible in a number of vulnerable regions such as Germany and Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | One memory will certainly be of the running of far more steam trains than seemed possible in the seventies , not all of them successful … |
| 10 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |
| 11 | Not for the last time during the long process of negotiation with the GPRA , de Gaulle himself seemed depressed by the impasse . |
| 12 | Linford seemed assured of the silver medal , which would be England 's first at 100 metres since 1938 . |
| 13 | He seemed oblivious of the stares of the whole town . |
| 14 | She seemed oblivious of the echo this might find in her own daughter 's life . |
| 15 | They seemed oblivious to the genetic dangers this could engender . |
| 16 | The Manchu was eating with economy , and seemed oblivious to the strangeness of his surroundings , but Alexei was sitting frozen , unable to conceal his disbelief as he watched a Yek officer impaling his meat with claws which were easily three centimetres long . |
| 17 | Blufton only seemed interesting as a wicked seducer , luring Nicola on to his casting couch with the bait of Jane Pargeter 's job . |
| 18 | Diphtheria , scarlet fever , measles , and whooping cough attacked older children just when they seemed clear of the terrible hazards of infancy . |
| 19 | On the one hand , it seemed clear from the studies in five authorities that the Act 's emphasis on partnership was recognised and in general accepted . |
| 20 | As it was , and for the foreseeable future , the continent seemed indefensible against a determined Soviet attack . |
| 21 | Neither of us had been prepared for this sudden release of feeling ; Edward seemed embarrassed by the confession , I embarrassed by his embarrassment , and regretting my earlier ungenerous thoughts … |
| 22 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 23 | Charles worried about the effect it was having on her ; and grew angry and frustrated on his own behalf , that no one seemed interested in the ills of the world . |
| 24 | He examined the rack of mouldings used for making frames and seemed interested in the machine for mitreing the angles . |
| 25 | On the platform the thick , sour air seemed fresh after the atmosphere inside the car . |
| 26 | Initially the reasoning behind this law seemed sensible for a region like Champagne , which is set in a viticultural twilight zone where the size of harvest fluctuates from year to year . |
| 27 | The compound seemed deserted without the women and children . |
| 28 | Nigel seemed willing on the surface to receive this . |
| 29 | Conditions in Kursk town seemed propitious for an anti-Bolshevik armed peasant uprising in October . |
| 30 | They realized dimly that , for the moment at least , the Bolsheviks seemed even keener than the SRs to provoke similar disorder at all levels : and their Land Decree seemed indistinguishable from the old SR demands on behalf of the peasantry . |