Example sentences of "seemed to be [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The country seemed to be on a knife-edge , with a minority government , the economy poised on the edge of collapse , and potential disorder in industrial relations , racial matters , and the affairs of the Celtic fringe . |
| 2 | Her fiancé seemed to be on a Cook 's tour of the Middle East , and she had a touching faith in my opinion as to his current safety . |
| 3 | AT St James Park on Saturday just about everyone seemed to be on a winner . |
| 4 | Upstairs the old house seemed to be on a multitude of different levels , with steps up and down , unexpected recesses and windows , all of which had been given a character of their own , by a carefully chosen ornament or floral arrangement . |
| 5 | The Vietnam War really appeared to be near its end , and the economy , shaken by the rise in world oil prices and the inflation produced by the war , seemed to be on the mend . |
| 6 | Delaney and Forster exchanged quick , worried glances , for the man seemed to be on the verge of total derangement . |
| 7 | I had flashes of recall so many times seemed to be on the verge of knowing who I really was . |
| 8 | Just at the moment when the establishment figures on both sides of the Atlantic were talking about substantial cuts in military spending , when the role of the hawkish political leaders was being eclipsed , when the United States seemed to be floating away from its international role , and new self-confident Europe seemed to be on the verge of creation , Iraq invaded Kuwait . |
| 9 | Every time she seemed to be on the verge of making some sort of breakthrough , new questions came up . |
| 10 | No one stepped forward , no one seemed to be on the lookout for a stranger and the other passengers quickly dispersed . |
| 11 | Over one last rise , and they were driving across a grassy boulder-strewn plateau which seemed to be on the top of the world . |
| 12 | Much of the recorded research seemed to be on the ability ( or non-ability ) to distinguish different sounds or single words through the tactile sense , mainly with deaf children in mind . |
| 13 | Her eyes seemed to be on the ceiling , watching them . |
| 14 | Trade unionism in the countryside seemed to be on the crest of a wave and the sense of exhilaration was increased when in 1920 the system of price guarantees and wages boards was extended into peacetime . |
| 15 | Pockets of resistance still remained in 1922 , in Tambov , Siberia , Georgia , and Central Asia : seemingly safe areas , like the Smolensk and Kursk gubernii , were not as stable as they seemed to be on the surface . |
| 16 | It had been an indifferent season for the New York Yankees , the team he had followed faithfully for thirty years , and , at 4-I down to the Detroit Tigers with two innings left , defeat seemed to be on the cards for a third successive game . |
| 17 | But biography had perhaps peaked as the hardback genre , and travel writing , except by the acknowledged masters , seemed to be on the decline in bookshops . |
| 18 | SID , the German news agency , said : ‘ At a end of a hearing of which the DLV 's legal commission was out of its depth with the case and from the start seemed to be on the side of Krabbe , Breuer and Moller , there was a scandalous ruling . ’ |
| 19 | He was certainly an attractive man , with bright , smiling eyes and a face which always seemed to be on the point of laughter . |
| 20 | Ana who was so sweet , so natural , seemed to be on the point of hysteria . |
| 21 | He always seemed to be on the move … |
| 22 | The little girl seemed to be with a group , the carriage was dense with bulky figures , and I had the impression someone was trying to get her away from the window . |
| 23 | As Hunt puts it , far straighter than anyone else has ever dared do , ‘ They seemed to be of the opinion that their drivers should n't be paid . |
| 24 | They seemed to be of the opinion that there should be a new form of charge for two levels of supplying , like what they call social supplying and big supplying . |
| 25 | Gillroy could no longer raise Darwin , and Koepang seemed to be off the air . |
| 26 | The whole valley seemed to be under a spell , in a timeless past unaffected by wars , the scars of industrial development and the trauma of social upheaval . ’ |
| 27 | I was entrenched on the top of Eagle 's Piece , with a huge stone under my wheel and the only way out seemed to be over the edge , most humiliating . |
| 28 | He seemed to be at a loss . |
| 29 | Michael Lee had grown up in London 's dockland at a time when prejudice towards the Chinese seemed to be at a height — and especially half-caste Chinese children , and there were few enough of those . |
| 30 | Some of them indeed seemed to be at the service , looking somehow different from the ‘ office workers ’ for whom the services had been arranged . |