Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was standing in the doorway , his lean frame clad in a loose-fitting tawny-coloured suit that seemed to emphasise the taut muscle that lay beneath it . |
| 2 | She loved the country life of the estate and could have been entirely happy were it not for Stephen 's habitual absences which only seemed to emphasise the constant presence of his mother . |
| 3 | Much of the early proceedings seemed to confirm the recent resurgence of the conservative wing , as witnessed at the June founding congress of the Russian Federation Communist Party [ see pp. 37538-39 ] . |
| 4 | The whole Soviet record seemed to confirm the undemocratic origins of Bolshevik power in Russia : glasnost and perestroika suggest that the regime itself is on the point of admitting as much . |
| 5 | With Moscow still actively seeking to destabilize the western democracies during the thirties , Soviet calls for collective security ( 1934–39 ) against Nazi expansionism were viewed with acute suspicion and the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 seemed to confirm the worst . |
| 6 | He seemed to like the easy life down there in Alba , or feasting with Popes and with Emperors further south . |
| 7 | No one seemed to like the dry enervating and dusty climate of the Hollywood hills . |
| 8 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 9 | They seemed to enjoy the whole thing a hundred times more than your average blasé concert-goer . ’ |
| 10 | I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away . |
| 11 | With its headbanging title , your issue on the Politics of Greed ( NI 188 ) seemed to promise the usual hellfire and damnation about the iniquities of Thatcher , Reagan and Co . |
| 12 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 13 | FitzAlan shifted one hand to the nape of her neck , holding her still , while that probing gaze seemed to penetrate the very depths of her soul . |
| 14 | Indeed , it is an oddity that he seemed to see the criminal justice system as being the only aspect of the environment that influences individual decisions about whether it is worthwhile to commit crime or not . |
| 15 | Everywhere , Perdita seemed to see the emerald-green colours they had chosen to emphasize their Irish origins , which were worn by players , grooms and supporters alike . |
| 16 | The eyes smouldered for a moment at the impertinence , then he seemed to see the funny side and chuckled hoarsely . |
| 17 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
| 18 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 19 | Nicholson did n't turn , hardly seemed to acknowledge the other voice . |
| 20 | When our love was young , we would exchange presents — small tokens , often meaningless in themselves , but which seemed to enclose the very essence of their donor . |
| 21 | However , Kenneth Clark , who replied for the government , was not encouraging and seemed to accept the pessimistic view of Neville Trotter , Conservative MP for Tyne mouth , who blamed all the problems on Korean labour costs which were only 20% of those in the UK . |
| 22 | But she seemed to accept the Glaswegian accent and his story of having left Scotland for London in his teens . |
| 23 | In spite of the difficulties caused by the weather , Carrie produced a meal of baked rabbit , potatoes , swede and carrots and put it in front of Seb while the wind rattled the door and windows and an occasional gust seemed to shake the very house itself . |
| 24 | The times of death seemed to span the whole day , but he could n't be sure the thirty-eight covered everybody who died that day because the numbers of each certificate did n't add up to a complete sequence . |
| 25 | His authoritative tone seemed to indicate the latter , giving the impression that here was a man who expected to be obeyed . |
| 26 | This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying . |
| 27 | The elephant not only pipped dolphin and tiger to the post to emerge as overall winner , but also seemed to attract the greatest loyalty in voters . |
| 28 | The fellows never seemed to rib the other NAAFI girls very much : they joked with them , but not in the same way as they did with Lemon . |
| 29 | Other Jewish families living in the warren of neighbouring streets where the rows of cramped houses confronted their twins at almost arm-stretching distance had no such suggestion of exclusiveness and seemed to encourage the natural ebullience of their inhabitants as well as confirming their more straitened circumstances . |
| 30 | No other flowers were in the garden , yet I seemed to smell the strong scent of nicotiana . |