Example sentences of "seem more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a time when to be ‘ new ’ seemed more than usually important , as exemplified by the titles of its livelier publications : New Writing , New Verse . |
| 2 | No disrespect to Philip Young , the conductor , or to any of the performers , but I have to agree with the member of the audience sitting behind me who commented that it seemed more of a damp squib than a big band ! |
| 3 | One media independent says : ‘ The poster advertising seemed more than it was because awareness was raised by the posters ’ exposure in the press and on TV , which probably doubled the effective budget . ’ |
| 4 | Afterwards , the New Zealand captain , speaking softly , confessed he was ‘ devastated ’ , while Gooch , not normally known for emotion , seemed more than a little chuffed . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was only that the hot climb had tired her but it seemed more than that . |
| 6 | We 've just gone through Armistice Day and I was and it 's always made , made me feel there 's something a little bit wrong about Armistice , it seemed more of a glorification in the way |
| 7 | They seemed more than content to skip the final episode — the half-mile procession on foot to inter the king 's body in the death-cliffs . |
| 8 | For once his ‘ soon and very soon ’ seemed more than empty optimism . |
| 9 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 10 | Lydia thought how the country people sometimes took on the look of the land itself , especially the old : how Angharad seemed more part of the land than of her family . |
| 11 | Women in tweed overcoats , men in dark melton overcoats — they seemed more overcoats than people ; the sort of people whose personalities are not large enough to dominate their outdoor clothes . |
| 12 | Only Alex seemed more than half awake . |
| 13 | I saw him once in his State robes ; then , to his highly impressionable nephew , he seemed more than human . |
| 14 | And though not a leaf or outline moved , there seemed more air , and a fresh little welcome breath from time to time near one 's skin . |
| 15 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 16 | For a second their glances leapt to meet each other , locking for a heart-stopping moment in a recognition that seemed more than merely superficial . |
| 17 | With nostrils at the end of a proboscis-like beak , conspicuous ears and unable to fly , it seemed more mammal than bird . |
| 18 | ‘ It seemed more than that from where I was sitting . ’ |
| 19 | The Feoda 's apparently innovative character makes the fact that it was produced in the same year as the Norman inquest into knights ' fees seem more than simply coincidental . |
| 20 | British attitudes to fertility , judged by actual behaviour in relation to fertility and marriage , and by the values stated in surveys , seem more conservative ( Simons 1986b ) . |
| 21 | The issue is whether making the protean forms of racism seem more omnipotent , cohesive and enduring than they are does after all serve to strengthen and unify the antiracist movement , or whether it reinforces the more sectarian elements within it . |
| 22 | The latter seem more of a pretext for trouble than a cause of it . |
| 23 | Forgive me if I do n't burst into tears , but the great heights seem more than compensatory . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ After all — you seem more than preoccupied with the sultry Domino . ’ |
| 25 | Meanwhile his birth comes to seem more and more impossible and Abraham on several occasions brings everything to the brink of disaster . |
| 26 | Chatterjee wondered about this as it began to seem more than simply coincidence . |
| 27 | William III is really William IV ( and we 're not talking William of Orange , who was variously known as Sweet William and Stinking Billy on the opposing sides of the religious divide in Ulster ) : the Daily Telegraph City Diary notes that Microsoft Corp chairman William Gates III is really William Gates IV but his dad wanted to seem more of a regular guy to his army pals and so he promoted himself to William Gates Jr . |
| 28 | The real mother seems more than happy to feed the pups , then allow them to nest under the bantam . |
| 29 | Less than a year later , Fuji seems more than willing to pay £100m for a minority share in the music arm which , with sales of £260m , represents much less than half of the Virgin empire . |
| 30 | And as the years from retirement lengthen , it seems more and more tenuous to group men in terms of long-past work , let alone women who since marriage may never have been in paid work at all . |