Example sentences of "seem [adj -er] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them had pink shaved patches on their heads with electrodes that stuck up like a second pair of ears , and here and there were dark grey rats that seemed bigger than any of the others . |
| 2 | His voice seemed deeper and fuller now that he spoke to his own kind ; echoes moved in the light . |
| 3 | The crowd around the old fellow 's barrow seemed larger than usual for a Saturday morning and I could n't work out why there was such a hush the moment I showed up . |
| 4 | Life has always been on a razor-edge of survival and it is surely important to understand those moments in the past when the organic world seemed closer than usual to obliteration . |
| 5 | The sergeant was stout and pink and , after the exertion of a mile-long bicycle ride , seemed stouter and pinker than usual . |
| 6 | Her face seemed softer and rounder . |
| 7 | She had a slight headache from the noise of the factory which , for some reason , seemed worse than usual . |
| 8 | She thought he seemed sadder and older and somehow lonely . |
| 9 | In some ways it seemed longer than that to Lewis and in others only yesterday . |
| 10 | It might sound dull to advise using the same pale colour for walls , floors and larger pieces of furniture but this treatment will make the most confined area seem lighter and airier and will make bulky objects like sofas , armchairs and beds recede into the background . |
| 11 | Renault dealers seem happier than most at the moment , buoyed by the success of the Clio . |
| 12 | Sitting in that lovely , bright , happy kitchen had made the Evans 's house seem colder and bleaker than ever . |
| 13 | The sides always seem thinner and shorter than the back . |
| 14 | She always seems shorter and plumper than I remembered . |
| 15 | Whatever has gone wrong , it was all our fault , but we are trapped in helplessness , and as we contemplate the dull ruins of the fabric of our lives in the light that shines from our visions of what might have been , our ‘ real ’ life seems messier and drabber , and we weep in self-pity for the golden afternoons that never were ours . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems colder than last night . ’ |
| 17 | Compared with other endoscopic treatment used to stop bleeding , the heater probe seems better than pure alcohol sclerosis but less effective than epinephrine injections . |
| 18 | SPAR 's behaviour seems better if two conditions apply : that the reasoner is known to be less reliable than the linguistic part of the system , as it might be if the texts processed describe a relatively open domain ; and that , as for example , in a machine translation task , no further non-linguistic processing will be carried out on the reading accepted . |
| 19 | The action takes place thousands of miles from ‘ the perennial roar of London ’ , but the reader remains very much aware of London and the civilization it stands for as moral standards crumble ; ‘ savage ’ and ‘ white man ’ become confused until the conduct of the whites , intent on mutual destruction , seems worse than that of ‘ these poor souls — and even Sally Day , the child of cannibals , in all likelihood a cannibal himself — so faithful to what they knew of good ’ . |
| 20 | The day had seemed longer than usual , Claudia thought as she let herself into her flat with a sigh of relief . |
| 21 | Fifteen feet up , the wind seems stronger and colder , the footholds more suited to the Eiger ; there is no place to put anything down . |