Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she put her cup down and began to speak in a soft , sad , dreaming voice that seemed to weave a spell of silence in the room . |
| 2 | According to Eileen Laughton , a Panel recruitment drive at the time seemed to acquire the services of a number of people who would not be disposed to argue with recommendations from the Social Work Department . |
| 3 | The Austro-Marxists seemed to carry the argument so far into the nationalist camp that only the distinction between the cultural and the economic preserved internationalism . |
| 4 | By brush and pencil he conveyed in his innumerable studies of this quite ordinary girl , the fragility of an idealized beauty , and the paths of ill health , for in an enfeebled frame she seemed to carry the seeds of consumption . |
| 5 | No difference was found in the aspartate aminotransferase levels at the start of the two courses ; however , both courses seemed to induce a peak of aspartate aminotransferase values that often preceeds a response to therapy . |
| 6 | With no reason not to come in — since it was the spirit of the house that people should sit around the kitchen table talking — they seemed to sense a unity , to know they were not wanted . |
| 7 | Stella seemed to sense the coolness between them and , perhaps in an effort to ease the tension , she said hastily , ‘ This is Miss Lucy Telford , Silas . |
| 8 | Suddenly Morthen seemed to sense the watcher . |
| 9 | The rider seemed to sense the fault was partly his . |
| 10 | Eventually Ivy herself seemed to sense the need for an explanation . |
| 11 | More disturbingly , military statistics seemed to confirm the findings on poverty by Charles Booth and Llewellyn-Smith . |
| 12 | Evidence seemed to confirm the interest inelasticity of investment demand . |
| 13 | When displayed in the great cities of the east , and in the capitals of Europe , the larger dinosaurs seemed to confirm the superiority of modern industrial society by showing how the world had been conquered both in space and time . |
| 14 | Queen Farah seemed to like the idea even less . |
| 15 | Sid 's petrolsplashing around the walls of the trench had , I believe encouraged the little bastards , they seemed to like the smell of petrol . |
| 16 | She kept her back rigorously straight : the foetus or baby seemed to like the bicycle : its movement usually , and she felt happily , ceased as hers began . |
| 17 | The source of his personal identity and the nature of financial and status rewards also seemed to affect a teacher 's ability to change his classroom practice . |
| 18 | The presentation seemed to affect the error patterns more than the success rates ( Table 4.17 ) : there were several ways in which the dimensions of the box were used to obtain an answer . |
| 19 | They had n't booked a table at the restaurant , but Roman 's appearance seemed to galvanise the waiters into respectfully procuring the best table , at the centre of the balcony , with a magnificent view across the bay . |
| 20 | At Kelham he seemed to enjoy the company of the lay brothers and the students more than that of the fathers , though I fancy he enjoyed the company of the more lively minded among them , such as Father Gabriel , a shrewd and lively thinker . |
| 21 | He had duly entered the army from school , and seemed to enjoy the life . |
| 22 | ‘ They seemed to enjoy the trollop 's performance , anyway , ’ said Fräulein Müller bitterly . |
| 23 | ‘ They had the highest scorer and won more games — but everyone seemed to enjoy the evening . |
| 24 | Over the years they had often made love like this , in his back bedroom when the parents were in the house — Rachel seemed to enjoy the danger — although never on the floor before ! |
| 25 | The American neo-Lamarckians made the same point , arguing that the fossils seemed to support a theory of directed evolution , not one based on the selection of random variation by the local environment . |
| 26 | The first ‘ special announcements ’ about the encirclement and capture of huge numbers of Soviet prisoners and the seizure of Russian war material seemed to support the propaganda line that the superlative German troops would swiftly destroy the inferior Red Army , and that a new Blitzkrieg victory was already in sight . |
| 27 | At the beginning of the crisis , Arnulf seemed to support the king . |
| 28 | My heart lurched and seemed to miss a beat , but I went on reading calmly , though the print was blurred . |
| 29 | Her heart seemed to miss a beat , then began thumping heavily against her ribs . |
| 30 | But I am sorry to say that , however alert Ivy 's attention was and no matter how much Herman admired Brenda Bruce , they seemed to miss the point . |