Example sentences of "seemed [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’
2 I appreciate the arguments that go on nowadays , but let us not forget that the old crossings were not suitable for the disabled , which is why , in the case to which I am referring , it seemed unnecessary for the authority to insist on a ramp being built .
3 Mr Lamont seemed half-hearted about the measures which he introduced .
4 The conditions seemed right for a repetition of the French Revolution on English soil .
5 She had done everything that seemed right in the circumstances .
6 Yes Norman Lamont you 're right erm even the demise was suggested that the square sausage , which seemed possible on the basis of the conversion of metric tables and if you do n't know what the square sausage is , the G M B Scotland delegates will only be too happy er to give you the answer .
7 Further acts of aggression by the Soviet bloc seemed possible in a number of vulnerable regions such as Germany and Yugoslavia .
8 ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability .
9 Not for the last time during the long process of negotiation with the GPRA , de Gaulle himself seemed depressed by the impasse .
10 Linford seemed assured of the silver medal , which would be England 's first at 100 metres since 1938 .
11 He seemed oblivious of the stares of the whole town .
12 She seemed oblivious of the echo this might find in her own daughter 's life .
13 The Manchu was eating with economy , and seemed oblivious to the strangeness of his surroundings , but Alexei was sitting frozen , unable to conceal his disbelief as he watched a Yek officer impaling his meat with claws which were easily three centimetres long .
14 On the one hand , it seemed clear from the studies in five authorities that the Act 's emphasis on partnership was recognised and in general accepted .
15 Neither of us had been prepared for this sudden release of feeling ; Edward seemed embarrassed by the confession , I embarrassed by his embarrassment , and regretting my earlier ungenerous thoughts …
16 He examined the rack of mouldings used for making frames and seemed interested in the machine for mitreing the angles .
17 Charles worried about the effect it was having on her ; and grew angry and frustrated on his own behalf , that no one seemed interested in the ills of the world .
18 On the platform the thick , sour air seemed fresh after the atmosphere inside the car .
19 Initially the reasoning behind this law seemed sensible for a region like Champagne , which is set in a viticultural twilight zone where the size of harvest fluctuates from year to year .
20 The compound seemed deserted without the women and children .
21 Nigel seemed willing on the surface to receive this .
22 It is simply that a feature , which seemed prominent in the stereotype , may appear insignificant in the performance , and vice versa .
23 Allied commanders seemed delighted at the outcome .
24 The sea shimmering and heaving beneath the brisk breeze seemed ignorant of the loss in her life .
25 The chances of recruiting enough regulars seemed slender in the conditions of overfull employment prevailing in Britain in the 1950s .
26 Elements of both the Jordanian government and the PLO seemed undismayed by the expulsion or detention of leftist or independently-minded members of the NGC .
27 It seemed impossible to reconcile the ideal of the simple monastic life with a great religious order , just as it seemed impossible for the papacy to exercise leadership without becoming an autocratic bureaucracy .
28 If the tests were truly designed for the control of ‘ anti-social influences in the arts ’ , as the Report said , then how could the law seem other than misconceived when a decade or more of legal scrutiny and barristers ' banter had been publicly squandered on the anti-social potential of pubic hair , the peculiar dangers of which seemed clearer to the police than to juries .
29 Apart from a look of mild surprise , the Rector seemed unaware of the toy being pulled roughly from under him .
30 But he seemed unaware of the darkness at the back of everything .
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