Example sentences of "[pers pn] seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I seem unhappy ? |
| 2 | Only at the last minute , at the station , did she seem sad again . |
| 3 | Does she seem any more real to you here , more real than at Berwick ? ’ |
| 4 | I will stand ready to reinforce your attack , should you seem likely to fail . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose I was trying to make you seem more human . |
| 6 | " You say you want me to make him seem shifty . |
| 7 | His harsh manner was at odds with his appearance — sleek black hair lay in gentle waves , and even when he was n't running his hands through it it always looked windblown like now , making him seem casual and relaxed . |
| 8 | It made him seem weak to her robust northern eyes . |
| 9 | For those whose chief concern is for Yeats , the book will of course make him seem shadowy and self-deluding , but it will also testify to his conscientiousness and loyalty . |
| 10 | The mask made him seem menacing , and she suddenly had the sensation that with Lucenzo she was playing with fire . |
| 11 | Edmund reports to Gloucester how , Since it is all , in truth , Edmund 's ‘ suggestion , plot , and damned practice ’ , the inversion is so apparent to us as to make him seem cheeky . |
| 12 | Not that such a tenuous connection was any real guarantee of respectability , but it did make him seem less of a stranger . |
| 13 | Nor at any time after the Second World War did they seem likely , despite several important developments relating to areas of common interest . |
| 14 | You make me seem insincere . |
| 15 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 16 | Particularly with such beefy recording that absence makes them seem heavier than either the Dorati ( Decca ) or Marriner ( Philips ) , both of which use harpsichord continuo to leaven the textures . |
| 17 | It may sometimes make them seem indecisive and easily led , but it also bestows qualities of sensitivity , sympathy and empathy . |
| 18 | They are rendered with a reduced palette and a monumentality that makes them seem emblematic , but of what ? |
| 19 | The camera makes them seem four-dimensional — solid figures moving in time . |
| 20 | There is no light and shade and this way of using the pointes has nothing to do with giving a finishing touch to such dances as those fur Petipa 's Aurora and the Six Fairies in The Sleeping Beauty to make them seem lighter than air . |
| 21 | The title of Chapter 3 , ‘ The politics of variation ’ , was intended to underscore the central point about sex difference research : that it is always undertaken for political reasons , and has traditionally been used to justify sex discrimination and exclusionary practices , making them seem natural and inevitable . |
| 22 | Irvin Ehrenpreis claims , for example , that the pastoral myth in ‘ The Deserted Village ’ sets villagers outside the world of observation , thereby making them seem unreal . |
| 23 | Yet their forced complexity came to make them seem unconvincing when compared with the eventual attractions of the heliocentric system . |
| 24 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |
| 25 | In the longer term , is there a risk that in focusing attention on such ‘ hard core ’ racist groups there is a danger of making them seem glamorous ? |
| 26 | Surely you can see that the very serious element in it puts the straightforward demonstration ‘ Maggie Maggie Maggie Out Out Out' ’ protest song , in its place and makes it seem trite and a little bit cosy ? ’ |
| 27 | For as long as it seemed remotely relevant , the tactic never failed ; and it was easy enough to make it seem relevant in the atmosphere of international hostility of 1945 . |
| 28 | In contrast to the psychological rationalization , an ideological rationalization can refer to the socially shared content of ideology : in particular it can refer to the son of ideology , which seeks to explain the social world by making it seem rational . |
| 29 | Do n't pad out your answer to make it seem impressive . |
| 30 | Why should it seem odd that they should win Tests for Pakistan ? |