Example sentences of "seemed [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he would remember how it was , there on the island in the lantern light ; how he had watched her lose herself in the tune she had been playing ; how her voice had seemed the voice of his spirit singing , freed like a bird into the darkness of the night . |
| 2 | But he had n't seemed the type somehow — she would n't have expected him to be drawn by the lure of so-called fame . |
| 3 | That duration testifies to the substantial fact that for all the alarm the crisis produced , the British financial system had reached a level of sophistication and general confidence which enabled it to live through a moment which in earlier times would have seemed the harbinger of doom . |
| 4 | No wonder he had seemed a bit on edge . |
| 5 | It has always seemed a bit of a mystery that the College chose its present Camden Town site . |
| 6 | That ‘ suppose ’ seemed a bit odd . |
| 7 | But yes , I grant you that might have seemed a bit odd to the members if it had n't been explained properly . ’ |
| 8 | Just that he 's seemed a bit out of sorts this past few days . ’ |
| 9 | The idea of going to France and turning into reality something which for so long had seemed a dream was now a concrete possibility . |
| 10 | It had seemed a dream come true . |
| 11 | Brought up at a time when military aircraft would have seemed a fantasy , he later became an expert on one of the most complicated of signal functions , air-land co-operation . |
| 12 | Cedric and Dorothy had seemed a centre , even an essential one ; so many well-known people had been in and out with their politics , books , causes , marches for this and that , demonstrations . |
| 13 | To her he had seemed a hero : all she wanted was to kneel at his feet , kiss them and bandage them . |
| 14 | His posting to the War Office had seemed a godsend . |
| 15 | The arrival of a new host in the form of the azure-winged magpie must therefore have seemed a godsend to the oft-thwarted cuckoo . |
| 16 | To his hosts , it must have seemed a possibility , at least , that in William Joyce they had their most important catch of all the queer fish at Charlottenburg . |
| 17 | Seen through her mother 's eyes , far-off England had seemed a land of dreams and adventure . |
| 18 | And it may have still seemed a lot of money at I think one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds , I ca n't comment or not not having seen the size of the estate , but it compares quite well with the five thousand one hundred and sixty sixty pound Five hu Five thousand seven hundred and sixteen pounds that the Midland bank charge on the particular estate . |
| 19 | She had thought for months of trying to blow the gaff on the fact that she was past marrying off , but it had seemed a lot to put Len through , and her mother was anyway exceptionally good at not acknowledging that a gaff had been blown . |
| 20 | It has seemed a certainty to me from the beginning ; the decision of the Council is tomorrow . |
| 21 | From Major Erickson 's viewpoint it must have seemed a blessing to be rid of him . |
| 22 | To the passengers in the skies over the Atlantic drinking free champagne to celebrate the first anniversary of Virgin Atlantic , oblivious to all the dramas which had unfolded to keep them airborne , it probably would have seemed a bargain . |
| 23 | Yet , it must , this new thin man , he had seemed a gleam of randiness , be the old Rab . |
| 24 | The scholar 's separation of the Greek experience from the modern world had always seemed a frivolity ; now it was intolerable . |
| 25 | She was trembling , hot tears sprang to her eyes , she wanted to cover her face with her hands , but did not dare attempt such a defending gesture for it would have seemed a patent provocation ; besides she knew how to stand in the face of anger . |
| 26 | The north-western suburbs , which had previously seemed a haven , came under attack in the latest fighting . |
| 27 | What might have seemed a revelation of God 's extraordinary generosity has turned out to be another expression of his terrible anger . |
| 28 | Looking up , it had seemed no height at all . |
| 29 | However , on a positive note , the locking nut on the EX eschews the twin bolts through the neck that even the top-of-range Ibanez guitars have , which has always seemed an invitation to ‘ tear along the dotted headstock ’ . |
| 30 | The Press Council review has seemed an age in gestation ; and it is not in all respects wonderful . |