Example sentences of "and [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 2 | There was so much untidy milling about , however , that in the confines of the tiny space they found it hard to organize themselves and eventually seemed to abandon the attempt . |
| 3 | Nearly ten years ago , in CD 's infancy , I was writing that most CD players sound like poor quality amplifiers , not least because they contain poor quality amplifier circuits , and little seems to have changed in the interim . |
| 4 | Now that we 're well into the New Year and little seems to be happening on the rock , I guess it 's time for the traditional retrospective . |
| 5 | Work was interrupted by a fire in the palace in 1298 and little seems to have been done until 1320 , but Michael was occupied on other works for the Crown , being sent to Winchester Castle in 1306 . |
| 6 | Mares , on the whole , are surprisingly tolerant of the roughness and rudeness of their own offspring , and rarely seem to reprimand them , and if so , then perhaps with only a slight nip . |
| 7 | ‘ She was out of the oxygen tent earlier- and her temperature was coming down with the antibiotics but then when she came to … she opened her eyes and suddenly seemed to go into a panic . |
| 8 | If a source is moving towards the listener the sound waves are bunched up and so seem higher , while if the source is moving away , the waves are spread out and seem lower . |
| 9 | But from what little I do know of it , my understanding is that it basically dramatises the same power relationships , and so seems to appeal to the same inequalities . |
| 10 | He does n't really seem to be very careful about distinguishing intellect from the one and , and so forth , does n't really , he 's not , he 's not really focusing on that difference and so seems to let it lapse in a less than useful way . |
| 11 | When we arrived the carp were present all over from our margin to the far bank but as the time went on the fish moved out and only seemed catchable from the far side . |
| 12 | Moreover some individuals-do n't actually contribute a lot to the groups and only seem to be working . |
| 13 | There was an open war going on between the child and the nun , and the class was aware of it and daily seemed to await events . |
| 14 | It sports an instructor in kabuki , and much seems Japanese : the costumes , the men 's top-knots and a fair part of the staging seem to come from Kurosawa . |
| 15 | Labour politicians , even those with a training in economics , were muddled about the issues , and generally seemed to favour the historic average cost principles , which also seemed to many at the time to be enshrined in the wording of the Act , which merely required the industry to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ . |
| 16 | They are exponents of free love , and generally seem to be promiscuous and ready to make love with everyone , including mothers , fathers , aunts , uncles , and children . |
| 17 | She plans his trips , is the tough cop with him and his medicine and generally seems to brighten his life . |
| 18 | Killing people simply in order to satisfy hunger is hardly one of humanity s more endearing habits ( and anyway seems always to have been rare ) , but the consumption of dead heroes can be seen as a mark of respect , in that the eaters may hope to inherit some of the admired qualities of the deceased . |
| 19 | He 'd read the script and already seemed to be familiar with Joyce 's published material . |
| 20 | Densan tended initially to limit managerial discretion much more and thus seemed to offer a better alternative for labour . |
| 21 | But , in fact , latent inhibition is routinely obtained with stimuli that are diffuse and non-localized and thus seem certain to impinge on the subject 's sense organs even in the absence of an overt OR . |
| 22 | The sorghum and millets correspond in size and structure to modern wild varieties of these plants and thus seem to be parts of an economy based on gathering wild plant foods . |
| 23 | B : There 's a yellow VW outside Sue 's house Here B 's contribution , taken literally , fails to answer A's question , and thus seems to violate at least the maxims of Quantity and Relevance . |
| 24 | She had never read any books on the subject and just seemed to know what to do . |
| 25 | Inside and outside seemed so absolutely separate that once again Zen , drifting off into pleasantly dopey inattention , had the sensation of being a mere spectator of screen images , some television documentary about hardy men who did dangerous work for big money . |
| 26 | Forbes was thus a contemporary of Darwin and Huxley ; but because he died at the height of his powers just five years before the Origin of Species was published , and because despite his time in Paris he remained an outdoor natural historian having little temptation towards laboratory-based physiology , his work was incomplete and soon seemed obsolete . |
| 27 | For this exuberant individualist revelled in the goal-scoring limelight and hardly seemed the right choice for a midfield link man , laying on scoring chances for others . |
| 28 | It shows her growing emotional involvement and gradually seems to affect her every movement . |
| 29 | The poem 's beginning is certainly biblical , drawing on Ecclesiastes , but it also involves the modern world ( ‘ factory … bypass ’ ) , and deliberately seems to draw on the biblical passage closest to Frazerian fertility rites , the dead being reborn through the seasonal cycle . |
| 30 | The method seems quite popular , and usually seems to reflect the pattern of use whilst seriously underestimating the amount . |