Example sentences of "seem [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind had died away and the throb of Seawitch 's diesel engine seemed loud to Polly as Nathan guided the boat out of the harbour . |
| 2 | It seemed strange without Sid next door , and the barrage seemed much worse than yesterday evening . |
| 3 | It seemed strange to Maura to look up at someone . |
| 4 | The submucosal and myenteric neural plexuses seemed normal in number and morphology with no intraneuronal inclusions or vacuolation present . |
| 5 | All nerve fibres and terminals present seemed normal in number and morphology . |
| 6 | She clung to her husband 's arm , but seemed grateful for Clare 's company . |
| 7 | For a moment , he seemed apprehensive to Dexter . |
| 8 | It also seemed undesirable for students to become dependent on benefits while in full-time education . |
| 9 | His eyes seemed alive with joy to her , simple joy at her reaction . |
| 10 | The very air around her seemed alive with tension and expectancy . |
| 11 | That seemed cruel beyond belief , he should have been there instead of Hodge . |
| 12 | There was something about the way she was treating them that still seemed odd to Masklin . |
| 13 | Her insistence seemed absurd in view of her own failed marriage , but I had always been too nervous to point this out , to ask what she made of the break in connection between the symbolism of the dress and the unassailability of the marriage vow . |
| 14 | Jilinski , however , seemed oblivious to Samsonov 's ever more perilous situation , and as late as 26 August — when the hapless Samsonov was just about to be engulfed from all sides — he commanded Rennenkampf to employ two corps for the investment of Königsberg and with the rest of his army to press on to the Vistula . |
| 15 | However , the meeting also established the desktop as COSE 's first priority , something that seemed clear at COSE 's announcement last month . |
| 16 | However , the meeting also established the desktop as COSE 's first priority , something that already seemed clear at COSE 's announcement last month . |
| 17 | Desperate in his anxiety to leave Bristol , almost any available house now seemed acceptable to Coleridge so long as it was near Tom Poole . |
| 18 | The gipsy seemed embarrassed at Seb 's presence . |
| 19 | Maureen said that her mother seemed free of pain but he warned her it could return at any moment . |
| 20 | Surprisingly , no one seemed interested in Sir John 's meeting with the regent . |
| 21 | He seemed bereft of sense as he pulled ribboned holly sprays from the walls and fed them to a sulky fire , cheering as they crackled and spurted heatless flame up the chimney . |
| 22 | The Second Division side seemed bereft of ideas until White suddenly found an opening . |
| 23 | With the threat of bombing it seemed sensible for Mrs Daly to go to stay with a widowed friend in Rainford , and she seemed to have settled there very happily . |
| 24 | The flat seemed empty without William . |
| 25 | The surgery seemed empty without Dr Neil Cochrane in it . |
| 26 | Although Franco 's position seemed unassailable in May 1939 , the state of the Spanish economy constituted a potentially disastrous hole in the dyke . |
| 27 | It seemed incongruous to Dexter , inappropriate when he knew they had come to talk about violent death . |
| 28 | It seemed incongruous in relation to the events of the last week . |
| 29 | If Anwar now perhaps had reason for entertaining minor reservations about Changez ( though Changez seemed delighted by Anwar , and laughed at everything he said even when it was serious ) , this could be nothing compared to Jamila 's antipathy . |
| 30 | It seemed typical of Ianthe , the slightly school-mistressy touch of growing the bulb in water so that its white Medusa-like roots were visible . |