Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 2 | The recession , which had proved deeper and longer than predicted , made Bush 's own re-election less certain than it seemed at mid-year . |
| 3 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 4 | Was Yuan as certain as he seemed ? |
| 5 | Colours are plain and strong which , despite the underlying sketchiness , makes the picture less ephemeral than it seems in black and white and so further removed from the heavenly evocation of ‘ The Zone of Love ’ . |
| 6 | Were things as inevitable as they seem ? |
| 7 | The weird notion that she might be in danger of actually becoming one day as perfect as she seemed added a ghastly charm to her reflections , as she continued to envisage various methods of killing Jack . |
| 8 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 9 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 10 | Luke said softly , his voice so deep that it seemed to run along her nerves and play a tune like a violin . |
| 11 | Now admittedly in practice , measuring reproductive success is a damn sight more difficult than it seems . |
| 12 | Our father , Fa , was an agent for India 's Inland Navigation so that we ( our mother , Mam , my three sisters , Jon , Nancy and Rose , and I ) lived on the banks of Assam 's and Bengal 's great rivers , sometimes two miles wide , flowing through land so flat that it seemed to meet the sky all round like an inverted bowl . |
| 13 | I said my vows a bit too loud and they seemed to echo round the light oak panelling of the room ; Gill seemed to overcompensate and whispered hers so that the registrar and I could only just hear . |
| 14 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |