Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] seemed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darwin , with his inherited money , doing little experiments in his garden and studying what we would call ecology , seemed rather like a survival from the eighteenth century : the new way to end arguments about animals seemed to be through chemistry . |
| 2 | ‘ The army will concentrate on Quatre Bras , ’ the Duke of Wellington seemed to be speaking to himself as though he groped towards a solution of the problem Napoleon posed , ‘ but we sha n't stop him there , and if so , ’ Wellington 's gaze flicked across the map , then settled , ‘ I must fight him , ’ he paused again to lean over the map for a few final seconds , ‘ here . ’ |
| 3 | The areas of experience seemed to be reserved for describing areas such as arts and applied crafts ( aesthetic and creative experience ) , and history , geography , economics , social and environmental studies ( social and political education ) . |
| 4 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 5 | The safest course of action seemed to be to shore up the bunker and make sure I did nothing to upset the fragile eco-system that was supporting me , for however much we wanted to disguise it , I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 6 | The peasantry remained distressingly unresponsive to agitation and the rapid development of industry seemed to be strengthening the regime and foreclosing the option of direct transition to peasant socialism . |
| 7 | Everywhere you looked , the world of cars seemed to be touching upon affairs of great import . |
| 8 | The ‘ winter of discontent ’ and the subsequent return of the Conservatives for what proved to be a very lengthy period of rule seemed to most observers to mark a profound watershed . |
| 9 | The thick patches of light seemed to be focal-points , somehow … |
| 10 | area to the south of the River Thames within the dockland district of London , ‘ where the accumulated scum of humanity seemed to be washed from higher grounds ’ . |
| 11 | But it was n't true ; today the invisible hand of fate seemed to be drawing a thick black line under that particular chapter of her life which involved anything related to Luke . |
| 12 | Most of the handles and doors had been removed , and mounds of bones seemed to be in their place . |
| 13 | The reign of Raine seemed to be over . |
| 14 | Her round of days seemed to me to be a drone-like existence , moving from house to compound , compound to house . |
| 15 | The intention was to see what sorts of problems seemed to be occurring and then to create automatic procedures , where possible , for gathering further information . |
| 16 | The tangled web of committees seemed to him likely to retard rather than accelerate development , and he hoped that clearer BEA responsibility would , as their headquarters staff were built up , lead to quicker progress . |
| 17 | So that erm perhaps puts erm some of sexuality in a little bit of a historical context erm and um I suppose coming into the nineteenth century though , nineteenth century , particularly the second half of the nineteenth century , in large cities it was notorious for child prostitution for um a whole rate of exploitative sexual practices that underlay Victorian respectability so erm all these um peculiar kinds of things seemed to be going on . |
| 18 | The crowd of villagers seemed to be standing round a patch of earth from which the thin , naked arms of a young girl were desperately waving as the screams continued . |
| 19 | Last year , walking in a forest above Lake Geneva , I saw terrible evidence of this as acre after acre of trees seemed to be dying from the top down . |
| 20 | The front row of people seemed to trip and fall . |
| 21 | In Seymour the House of Lords seemed to be principally concerned with manslaughter committed with a motor vehicle , but subsequent cases establish that the test of ‘ obvious and serious risk of physical injury to some person ’ is applicable to offences using different methods , such as fire . |
| 22 | Her lungs were empty ; hoops of steel seemed to be contracting around her chest . |
| 23 | In the room each bit of furniture seemed to be too far away from the others , as if they had been dropped there as markers , but the space was eroding them . |
| 24 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |
| 25 | Little waves of lightning seemed to be flashing out of her eyes . |
| 26 | Apocalyptic visions of monsters seemed to be realized in these terrible eyes and terrible jaws . |
| 27 | Frank Kermode in The Genesis of Secrecy seemed to be engaging in a severance of world and word , and was called to account by Helen Gardner for doing so . |
| 28 | The whole line of docks seemed to be ablaze and ships in the river , shops , offices , streets of terraced houses and mansions , as well as beautiful and historic buildings like the Walker Art Gallery , the Museum and Central Library , had all suffered as high explosive bombs , land mines and incendiary bombs had rained down upon the city from hundreds of aircraft . |
| 29 | The whole tide of history seemed to be quickening as it moved remorselessly leftwards . |
| 30 | A new field of activity seemed to be opening up for him if only he had the courage to grasp the nettle . |