Example sentences of "seem [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Len arrived , they seemed for some reason to talk about nothing but health . |
| 2 | Oh , what a time there seemed between those visits ! ’ |
| 3 | They seemed about thirty or forty yards away from us as they now talked in lower tones with the occasional laugh , obviously unaware of our presence . |
| 4 | Knocking the arrow seemed after all not to have been the ultimate disaster . |
| 5 | Despite outward appearances and her protected upbringing , it seemed after all as if Anne were the more worldly-wise of the two — or even the three of them . |
| 6 | The question seemed of great importance to her . |
| 7 | The confrontation involved in sex seemed of all those available to me for that purpose the most powerful , the most open , the most personal . |
| 8 | Wycliffe had no maxims , but that was exactly what was being done , though to him it seemed of paramount importance to build a clear picture of the victim himself . |
| 9 | The provenance of a manure heap seemed of limited importance beside the problems presently exercising her mind . |
| 10 | It was a question that seemed of crucial importance . |
| 11 | The intensification of the war increased when on 10 June 1940 , Mussolini , making one of his last balcony performances , declared war , so that my newly-projected book on Italy seemed of immediate relevance , though whether I should complete it was another matter . |
| 12 | Yet the Bahia Paraiso tragedy seemed of little consequence compared with the disaster which occurred in northern polar waters only weeks later . |
| 13 | This was n't a unit at all , only seemed like one , and Alice sat inwardly separated , thinking that Pat probably felt the same . |
| 14 | He just seemed like one of us — ’ |
| 15 | By the last two or three decades of the nineteenth century the railway stations of the Eastern states were analogous to those of the imperial metropoles in Europe , while those of the West seemed like colonial stations . |
| 16 | They seemed like two equivalent ways of saying the same thing , and which form of words you chose seemed a matter of taste . |
| 17 | They seemed like two important people discussing a difficult problem . |
| 18 | That , too , seemed like ancient history now . |
| 19 | At the time his outspokenness seemed like refreshing honesty . |
| 20 | With special affection I remember the metro railway enthusiasts who , confronted by rigorous structuralist films or scenes of sexual and scatalogical excess , walked out of the cinema in baffled confusion during the first NFT International Underground Film Festival and indignantly demanded their money back after having booked for a whole season of what seemed like fascinating specialist delights : German Underground , American Underground , Italian Underground . |
| 21 | Hell , this seemed like such a good idea this morning . |
| 22 | The second problem that graphics can bring is when you have been active with that 256 greyscale scanner which seemed like such a good idea . |
| 23 | And that part of her life seemed like such a long time ago . |
| 24 | Well it 's it , it 's very much like , you know , a lot of things I 've come across in everyday language where , where people , I do n't know , er friends and relatives have found out that somebody 's been gay , oh well I never thought it of him , he seemed like such a nice person as well |
| 25 | ‘ They talked of starting a new party , ’ commented Bertrand Russell who was involved in the early stages : ‘ … it seemed like eight fleas talking of building a pyramid . ’ |
| 26 | Inside was a single ultra-thin sheet of what seemed like pure black plastic . |
| 27 | He did n't pause to admire the car ( the car seemed like new : great ! ) but hurried inside , flinging off his coat with a hot gasp and making a lunge for the phone . |
| 28 | But no doubt Jeff had , she decided , suddenly feeling torn between her sense of guilt for what now seemed like unnecessary rudeness and her automatic instinct to defend her brother . |
| 29 | Against this background the rosy-tipped lamp standards seemed like fabulous lantern plants in a land of faerie . |
| 30 | She treated herself with what seemed like utter severity . |