Example sentences of "seemed to [be] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Banks actually seemed to be that man . |
| 2 | Whilst this was not denied there seemed to be general confusion among teachers about the nature of ‘ multicultural education ’ and the nature of the school 's problems with respect to this issue . |
| 3 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 4 | There seemed to be little hope for the future , just a mundane job and low pay and fewer prospects for meeting the opposite sex once university days were over . |
| 5 | Following this there was considerable despondency amongst the committee as there seemed to be little hope for the future . |
| 6 | Finally , as summarized in table 4 , there seemed to be little interest in some of the current general matters of concern in education . |
| 7 | In 1940 the United Kingdom , with no defences , faced what seemed to be certain invasion by hostile armed forces . |
| 8 | His eyes were fixed on someone or something at the room 's edge and Lucille , turning to see what had caught his astonished attention , saw the golden girl returning d'Alembord 's gaze with what seemed to be pure poison . |
| 9 | I remember thinking that there seemed to be one hell of a lot of buttons on the average Mother Christmas costume . |
| 10 | As she sat there , she experienced a sense of what seemed to be preternatural power . |
| 11 | The day had been hot ; in fact , the previous week had been very hot and so the roads and streets were paved with ridged flags of mud , hardbaked , but not so hard as to prevent their surfaces being skimmed off into dust which , in some streets of the town , seemed to be floating waist high like a mist rising from water . |
| 12 | There seemed to be genuine concern in the question . |
| 13 | The engravings by eighteenth-century European masters hanging nearby seemed to be suitable study material but not for display and the paintings were particularly disappointing . |
| 14 | There seemed to be Chinese food everywhere . |
| 15 | By the 1840s there seemed to be clear evidence for a sequence of development in the history of life on earth . |
| 16 | Me neither , but it seemed to be open season on Angels . |
| 17 | The crux of the debate was whether this was the most cost-effective way of meeting the demand for heating in Britain , 7 and the Boards were under considerable pressure from the Government to justify their commercial policy , which seemed to be attracting peak loads at uneconomic prices . |
| 18 | ‘ There never seemed to be any time , ’ she said defensively . |
| 19 | To H. C. Wyld , for example — surely the best historian of English — it probably seemed to be common sense to believe that RP was the most important accent of Modern English , and that a historical account of English pronunciation should therefore be , in effect , a history of RP . |
| 20 | There was a ruined tangle of what seemed to be exploded machinery lying where the police cordon had been ; a jumble of twisted wreckage wreathed in guttering blue-yellow flame which suggested petrol leakage . |
| 21 | What seemed to be well-established doctrine a few years ago may now be the subject of extensive debate . |
| 22 | However , there seemed to be important sex differences in the way these early factors related to the development of schizophrenia . |
| 23 | Coming on the heels of the Ashby Report , which had lacked conviction in Tutorials and had recommended that the reference to them in grant regulations be dropped , the Board 's decision seemed to be another blow to what had traditionally been regarded as the apex of WEA work . |
| 24 | The group then recalled their own experiences with children who refused to work and how often there seemed to be another child in the family who ‘ can not do anything wrong ’ . |
| 25 | There seemed to be another impasse . |
| 26 | It seemed to be another fit like the last one , only worse . |
| 27 | ‘ There seemed to be some doubt in your mind about my exact gender , ’ Maggie put in drily , and he cast her an irritated look , his dark eyes running over her again as she sat facing him , her hands in the pockets of the loose shirt . |
| 28 | I can not remember if he asked if they were British or not , but there seemed to be some doubt as to whose side these bombers were on . |
| 29 | In all four cases where there seemed to be some knowledge of the victim before the alleged offences were committed , the cases were contested by alleging the woman 's consent . |
| 30 | Basically , the latest , and I must n't take any credit , and there seemed to be some credit , Chair . |