Example sentences of "seemed [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina flicked back her long hair and concentrated on Pauline , who seemed for the first time to want to confide in her . |
| 2 | It seemed for the barest fraction of an instant that a smile might be knocking at the underside of that granite jaw . |
| 3 | Before she had managed it , she heard Glyn 's voice , and it seemed of the utmost importance that he did not begin to get to know the man who had come here and turned her small world upside-down so quickly . |
| 4 | The 1896 discovery by Eduard Buchner ( 1860–1917 ) that fermentation could carry on in the absence of living cells seemed like the final nail in the coffin . |
| 5 | Rejected by Lost Property ; it seemed like the ultimate insult . |
| 6 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 7 | It seemed like the right reaction as well , because everyone thought we were ambient intellectuals going around posing in mirrors and stuff . ’ |
| 8 | It seemed like the right sort of thing to say . |
| 9 | ‘ But you seemed keen to meet me this morning , so this seemed like the best place . ’ |
| 10 | Now it seemed like the only thing that would make Christmas tolerable . |
| 11 | ‘ It seemed like the only thing to do before I set out . |
| 12 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ Prior to his tour of the States , David started doing dates in England and within three months he was becoming what seemed like the biggest thing in England . |
| 13 | Laundering its altar linen and hoovering its aisle carpet often seemed like the instinctive care she gave to anything dependent of which she was fond . |
| 14 | It was stupid — but it just seemed like the last straw , Tom , and what can be done ? |
| 15 | The latest scandal , this time involving the Prime Minister himself , Pierre Beregovoy , hitherto regarded as the very model of honesty and integrity , seemed like the last straw . |
| 16 | The latest scandal , this time involving the Prime Minister himself , Pierre Beregovoy , hitherto regarded as the very model of honesty and integrity , seemed like the last straw . |
| 17 | One of his best friends was already playing and the two were big Kiss and Black Sabbath fans , ‘ so it seemed like the natural thing to do . ’ |
| 18 | Yet on the other hand governments were quite willing to disregard clearly expressed public feeling when this seemed in the national interest . |
| 19 | That first visit when I stayed at the Al Ain Hilton seemed in the dim past . |
| 20 | It was not fun enough for the fans , nor artistic enough for the art loving public ( or so it seemed from the vulgar poster and catalogue ; actually , it contained some wonderful and rarely seen pieces of silver ) . |
| 21 | Among those aged 46 or more ( approximately those born before the Second World War ) , the relationship is as it seemed from the bivariate table : the more highly educated are more prepared to break the law . |
| 22 | That 's how it seemed to the mystified outsider . |
| 23 | This , of course , was not how it seemed to the European powers which held authority over the Middle East after the 1914–18 war . |
| 24 | Another disc started , Herr Hocher placing it on the record-player with his own hands , the result being a foxtrot played by a Russian orchestra , and he himself took the floor with Fräulein Renn , the pair of them going through what seemed to the young people weirdly funny gyrations together . |
| 25 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 26 | An increase in the noise level and glimpses of exotic vegetables told her that they were in a market street , and it seemed to the over-sensitive Meredith that Lucenzo was almost continually returning greetings and brushing off sympathetic offers of help . |
| 27 | The £50 offered daily to the first AE to get a bike back with a client 's cheque , seemed to the world-weary AEs worth more than three times the equivalent , as paid at the end of the month . |
| 28 | Although intended to demonstrate to all the world what the Industrial Revolution had achieved in England , the Exhibition seemed to the discriminating evidence rather of what it had destroyed . |
| 29 | But such simple tactics seemed beyond the inexperienced Hemel team , who were repeatedly caught out by American Jonathan Bow 's eye for the easy basket . |
| 30 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |