Example sentences of "the [noun sg] seemed [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The referee , however , allowed play to go on with Everton prostrate and protesting and when the cross came over the defence seemed to use less than legal means to stop Chapman reaching it . |
| 2 | From the ridge , the light seemed to cover all the slope below , drowsy and still . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The plan seemed to offer both help for the neglected old and , by creating demand , employment for the younger members of society . |
| 5 | He suddenly remembered other beautiful mornings at his father 's farm in Sussex and the sun seemed to lose some of its brightness . |
| 6 | It grieves me to say that the committee seemed to spend some time trying to denigrate the authority 's findings and to vindicate the tobacco industry . |
| 7 | Civilization might be standing rock still , or even going backwards , for all the Collector seemed to care these days . |
| 8 | As happens in any new venture , I discovered that the hours I had to put in at the beginning seemed to outnumber those available in any day . |
| 9 | He had joined the Institute in his first year at the Establishment because at that time the organisation seemed to have some sinew to it . |
| 10 | The face , the hand and the candle withdrew backwards , still smiling at him , for the smile seemed to embrace all three , as though the withdrawing brightness emanated from the man rather than the flame . |
| 11 | As he said himself , with something of a mixed metaphor : ‘ The baby seemed to have all its parts but was liable to fall to pieces in the hand . ’ |
| 12 | Equally , the degree of unionisation of the workforce seemed to have little impact on the personnel practices of manufacturing establishments in their use either of fixed-term contract workers or agency workers . |
| 13 | When in the 1880s , anxiety about the question grew more acute , and when exhortation to society members not to instruct " female learners " or to allow their daughters to take up the trade seemed to have little effect , more organized attempts were made to confront the problem . |
| 14 | The further we went up the Nile , the more the river seemed to express some awful ambivalence . |
| 15 | They could add some illustrious names to the toll of the slain ; the list seemed to leave few of the great names of Scotland surviving . |
| 16 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The unit seemed to have some effect . |
| 19 | The excitement seemed to spread all down her , in fiery threads , right down to her fingers and toes . |
| 20 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Although the pharmacist seemed to have some trouble deciphering the prescription , and Henry had to go through a nerve-wracking pantomime of ignorance about the nature of the chemicals he required , it was n't long before he was standing once again on the doorstep of 54 Maple Drive . |
| 22 | The temperature seemed to fall several degrees as the implication sank in . |