Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nithard already seemed to sense that bond . |
| 2 | Indeed , the threatened coal strike of 1925 , which occurred at more or less the same time , seemed to confirm this impression . |
| 3 | The victimization which occurred , the loss of trade union membership , and the wage reductions all seemed to confirm this impression . |
| 4 | The issue of naturalization seemed to perplex some Libyans ; this was clear in their discussions at the Kufra Assembly and at the National Assembly which followed it . |
| 5 | It was not a critical success : as Philip Mairet , to whom the book was dedicated , put it , " Nobody seemed to like this book very much . |
| 6 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 7 | What seemed to support this theory was that Anthony Foster was said to have been strangled shortly afterwards , thereby tying up all the loose ends and avoiding embarrassment in the future . |
| 8 | Ruth paled and her heart seemed to miss several beats as she glanced past Steve again . |
| 9 | ‘ We were having fun with the children but we seemed to lose each other , ’ says Davina . |
| 10 | When I explained that my husband had been a member of the British armed forces and was in uniform , the official seemed to lose all interest , which I thought strange , as there had been French and Belgian equivalents of the S.A.S. in 1944 . |
| 11 | There was a carpet into which you seemed to sink several inches , an ornate desk in the style of the French Empire , a huge couch , upholstered in grey and scarlet , and a number of big soft armchairs in the same pattern . |
| 12 | The declivities seemed to promise more ease than the heights because of the heavier shade and the caressing sound of the small brooks which ran clear and sparkling across their path . |
| 13 | Only the strong figure of David Wallington seemed to promise any kind of help and she called out to him . |
| 14 | But Wagner 's art , so irresistible and so much to the fore in Nietzsche 's thinking , seemed to presuppose some value other than — or in addition to — beauty : and was this not also true of Greek art , on the basis of which the theory of beauty had been largely formed ? |
| 15 | And so e with that the the decline of the flats really erm seemed to go that way . |
| 16 | They seemed to go some way towards encapsulating the challenges that the notion of a shift of power to students holds for those immediately Involved . |
| 17 | The temperature seemed to fall several degrees as the implication sank in . |
| 18 | Although the surprise which seemed to greet these changes now seems misplaced , they represented significant alterations in the way heads and others were to manage education . |
| 19 | The dark grey eyes that glanced her way just before they moved across the chaotic intersection seemed to mirror that hatred , and she recoiled slightly . |
| 20 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 21 | The wind seemed to drive all ways at once , so that whichever way they turned , as they struggled to and fro across the yard , and from building to building , the snow was always directly into their faces . |
| 22 | Prison visitors seemed to acknowledge that drug taking among inmates is widespread . |
| 23 | Health information was broadcast by a much-loved Radio Doctor , whose down-to-earth advice always seemed to contain some reference to bowels . |
| 24 | Two were giggling together and seemed to know each other . |
| 25 | Everyone seemed to know each other ; the four walls resounded to the brayings of renewed insincerity . |
| 26 | He seemed to know enough policemen at one time . |
| 27 | D'Arcy , who did not despise the good life , seemed to find this display of hedonism a little extreme . |
| 28 | The presence of United Nations troops seemed to provide some protection to the Hercules crews . |
| 29 | It seemed to create that relationship , that tension between the audience and the performers which you got in a theatre , in a music-hall , but not usually in a cinema . |
| 30 | Both acute and chronic pancreatitis seemed to cause less need for a stay in hospital in Finnish women than in Finnish men . |