Example sentences of "seemed [prep] be [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finding it impossible to break into movies after the production slump of the 1940s , before television offered an alternative route to aspiring filmmakers , people like Anderson , Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz worked instead within sponsored documentaries , while writing about the sort of passionate , personal filmmaking that seemed to be possible in France , Italy , even India , but not in Britain . |
| 2 | There do seem to be some concerns which recur throughout the interviews and seemed to be crucial to people 's views about decision-making in the education and lives of young disabled people . |
| 3 | Gloriana , by contrast , was launched in the most auspicious of circumstances but seemed to be one of Britten 's most upsetting professional disappointments . |
| 4 | Why was it that everyone she 'd met lately seemed to be obsessed with star signs ? |
| 5 | Our results with western blotting contrast with those of Klein et al who identified a 65 kDa band which seemed to be specific for PSC . |
| 6 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had produced fusion in their test-tube because when they passed electrical current through it , more heat was produced than they could account for , and in amounts extending over hundreds of hours that seemed to be far in excess of what is possible in a normal chemical reaction . |
| 7 | His eyes seemed to be dark with emotion , and she wanted to say something , even apologise again , but he had turned away and started the car . |
| 8 | They seemed to be deep in conversation . |
| 9 | He 'd read the script and already seemed to be familiar with Joyce 's published material . |
| 10 | In spite of their success they seemed to be vulnerable to extirpation in a way that some of the less imaginative molluscs , like the bivalves seemed to be immune . |
| 11 | This was achieved by utilising the sorting facilities of the database to focus the direction of the study on areas where there seemed to be potential for improvement . |
| 12 | Everything always seemed to be crap for actors and you just had to put up with it — while the present corruption continued . |
| 13 | The chaplain called our office a few days later and seemed to be open to information offered regarding preparation for Todd 's First Communion . |
| 14 | The press seemed to be full of stories about the fractious behaviour of students , the circulation of revolutionary appeals to the population , the degeneration of relations between Russians and Poles , and the fires in St Petersburg . |
| 15 | I mean no one noticed anything unusual about her and she seemed to be full of plans for the wedding . ’ |
| 16 | The whole country seemed to be full of Tiller Girls kicking in their little check outfits . |
| 17 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 18 | It seemed to be full of alcoves and angles and small grouped areas of being , though the room itself was a plain rectangle : fish swam in a high globe , a monstrously enlarged goldfish bowl on top of a bookcase , and flowers and foliage stood on small pedestals here and there . |
| 19 | It seemed to be full of levers . |
| 20 | Although the changes were presented as local government reform , the main criteria which underlay the new legislation seemed to be national in origin . |
| 21 | Suddenly , the figure seemed to be aware of Jack 's presence and turned towards him , as if to ask what he wanted . |
| 22 | When unoccupied parents were combined with classes IV and V and compared with classes I and II , however , inequalities seemed to be pervasive throughout childhood ; the relative risks were 2.21 for those aged 1–4 and 1.98 for those aged 10–15 . |
| 23 | While acknowledging that Sarah seemed to be infatuated with George , her sister was so many years her junior that she still thought of her as a child and dismissed her obvious affection for George as innocent admiration . |