Example sentences of "[coord] seemed [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was that Mr Yeltsin was Russia 's best hope — no plausible alternative leader has argued so unequivocally for a market economy , or seemed willing to trust the young reformers who will be needed to create it . |
| 2 | No one had questioned him or seemed suspicious . |
| 3 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 4 | Little Marjorie Postine had refused all offers , and seemed content to remain up in her room all day , with the curtains drawn . |
| 5 | Chris 's wife was now in a different hospital in Shropshire , and seemed content to stay there . |
| 6 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 7 | There was admittedly a fiki but he was very restrained and seemed anxious to keep himself invisible at the back . |
| 8 | The train coming in made a noise that was fearful and seemed dangerous . |
| 9 | Grunte asked his hostess whether there were any press present , and seemed relieved to hear that there most certainly were none . |
| 10 | It was a move forced on him by the weakness of the rest and seemed certain to end in failure when Ludwig started his chase with 10 miles left . |
| 11 | After lengthy manoeuvring Short won a second pawn and seemed certain to win . |
| 12 | Oleg Sergueev ran clear and seemed certain to score . |
| 13 | Madrid , level with Barcelona before the weekend but with an inferior goal difference , took a 2-1 lead over Logrones in the 88th minute and seemed certain winners . |
| 14 | Robinson and Robinson found that children up to the age of seven years typically blamed the listener for failure , and seemed unaware that the message provided by the speaker might be inadequate . |
| 15 | It dissolved in ether , and seemed resistant to proteolytic digestion ; this implies that it may be an alkaloid like morphine , rather than a peptide like the enkephalins . |
| 16 | He began to nibble the lobe of her ear and seemed lost for a moment until she gave him a little shake to encourage him to go on and explain . |
| 17 | Aqib continued to drop short , once no-balling by some distance , and seemed close to complete loss of personal control . |
| 18 | This was indeed a dramatic triumph for the reductionist strategy the group had pursued , and seemed set to vindicate Kandel 's claim that the goal of his research was to discover the ‘ cellular alphabet ’ of learning . |
| 19 | In the early 1970s , she turned to documentary — she joined the feminist Hackney Flashers , photographed for the Childrens ' Rights Workshop and seemed set to become one of a large emerging group of leftist agit prop campaigning photo-reporters . |
| 20 | It showed some women in a northern English town at the turn of the century ; they were standing under an advertisement for Mazawattee tea and seemed depressed . |
| 21 | They were happy , relaxed children and seemed keen to talk to me about themselves . |
| 22 | She refused all solid foods at home and seemed fastidious about getting her fingers sticky or dirty . |
| 23 | The Tribune Company had already won a similar battle in Chicago in 1985 and seemed confident that it could repeat this profitable victory in New York . |
| 24 | He made a good living , and seemed resentful of his wife 's decision to take in a lodger . |
| 25 | This self-confessedly wilful boy always contrived to have a great deal of his own way and seemed able to follow his bent whenever the weather permitted . |
| 26 | ( Except for one Harvard undergraduate who held the world record , and seemed able to go on springing forever . ) |
| 27 | Post-war reconstruction and housing programmes seemed to do nothing to prevent , and seemed even to encourage , a rise in crime and mental illness . |
| 28 | When this papal claim was made , Charles was busy annexing the territories of the newly deceased Carloman , and seemed unlikely to offer the traditional Frankish support to the pope against the Lombards , based on agreements made by his father Pepin le Bref . |
| 29 | Second was the husband of Mrs Chapple ; Mrs Chapple had just been admitted to hospital and seemed unlikely to return home : |
| 30 | The Professor had glanced at him only once , and seemed oblivious to his challenging glare . |