Example sentences of "seem to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bourgeois revolutions of 1905 and 1917 seemed to the optimists a natural development on the Russian road to a Western style constitutional state . |
| 2 | They found it hard to understand what he saw in the boys he now surrounded himself with , some of whom seemed to the girls stupid and callow and bad at drawing . |
| 3 | The Act seemed to the authorities , in short , to be the " Seaman 's Charter " . |
| 4 | It seemed to the Court that a sentence of 18 months ' imprisonment , suspended , was outside the area of sentences which the judge could reasonably have considered appropriate . |
| 5 | It seemed to the Court that the sentencer had used the same mitigating factors twice over ; once to reduce the starting point , and then to justify a further reduction . |
| 6 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) taking a suspect to the parade seemed to the court to be outside the provisions for the administration of the parade itself and so there was no breach of the Code . |
| 7 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 8 | The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere . |
| 9 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
| 10 | It seemed to the hedgehog that there should be more to it than that . |
| 11 | She stood still for a long moment that seemed to the others to grow into an age . |
| 12 | At first , it seemed to the village gossips that both couples were happy enough . |
| 13 | In spite of its attractions , it seemed to the majority of the committee that the scheme would be unsatisfactory . |
| 14 | The promise was readily given and gratefully received : so small a thing it seemed to the giver and so great to the receiver . |
| 15 | Britain 's apparent ability to rally Commonwealth support at Chicago , and subsequent development of a Commonwealth airline system that differed substantially in form from the Bermuda agreement , seemed to the Americans to be evidence of Britain 's continued world power . |
| 16 | " The Lord preserveth the simple , " came the Padre 's voice , quite aptly , it seemed to the Collector for he considered himself to be a simple man . |
| 17 | An outcrop of white rock from the steep hillside seemed to the children as tall as a cliff . |
| 18 | Blanche shrugged sympathetically , or so it seemed to the sergeant , as if to say , ‘ I understand . |
| 19 | But after they had finished eating ( which seemed to the travellers to take for ever ) , Goibniu sent the other giants out of the room , because he had important business to discuss . |
| 20 | Sally Ward was better able to comfort him than anyone else , yet it seemed to the family that she did little but simply hold his hand . |
| 21 | Given Piatakov 's views and his official position , the Bolsheviks of the Ukraine seemed to the Rada indistinguishable from both the Kadets and the Petrograd Soviet . |
| 22 | The acceptance of the Gentile Christians without a requirement that they keep the Mosaic law seemed to the rabbis an excessive liberalism , and relations between church and synagogue after their separation had become final ( probably about ad 85 ) were not comfortable . |
| 23 | The large quantity of residual material from the thick make-up levels seemed to the excavator to support her contention that there were two different public buildings on the site , one replacing the other and although John Wacher corrects this , he in turn is persuaded by this evidence to suggest two periods , i.e. the work started about AD 145–50 , to be subsequently discontinued , and ultimately the building was completed in about AD 155 — 61 ( Wacher 1974 , 342 ) . |
| 24 | Artists such as Turner , Cotman and John Martin came here to record the fiery scenes of the ‘ satanic mills ’ whose blast-furnaces belched flames into the sky and seemed to the Romantics something like visions of hell . |
| 25 | Massalia seemed to the Romans of the late Republic and the early Empire to be a relic of the good old days : " disciplinae gravitas , prisci moris observantia " ( Val . |
| 26 | Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag . |
| 27 | Yet , such well-founded statements all seem to no avail . |
| 28 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 29 | Premack 's tests ( Premack 1976 ) to establish that chimpanzees make rudimentary connections between ‘ states of affairs ’ ( in order not to beg the more refined question of objectuality within them ) which to us appear closely connected by virtue of a cause and an effect , or by virtue of an implicit goal or problem and a means or stratagem , seem to the layman to support attributions to chimps of protean correlates of human categories of thought . |
| 30 | These postulates seem to the author to be self-evident propositions . |