Example sentences of "seemed [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long hot journey we had not paid much attention to our surroundings and it seemed unbelievable to be in Germany at last . |
| 2 | A student of mine in a Spenser class which read A Present View suggested it seemed peculiar to be reading a piece by an author commonly hailed as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance putting forward views which makes him a type of war criminal within a twentieth-century perspective . |
| 3 | Kate found it hard to avoid hearing about him ; he seemed daily to be permeating her senses almost as if he were personally hounding her even though she accepted that had to be crazy thinking on her part . |
| 4 | The Buenos Aires flight was delayed and the plane horribly hot , but this did n't upset the passengers who seemed delighted to be going home . |
| 5 | As far as Sullivan recalled , the Shah seemed relieved to be invited to the US and suggested he should fly to Andrews Air Force base outside Washington . |
| 6 | Beador seemed relieved to be going . |
| 7 | Holly-jack — because of her evergreen skin — seemed set to be the one who would persist in winter as the human 's friend ; she would be the oddest of primitive heroines . |
| 8 | It seemed amazing to be able to leave the house each time without feeling furtive , and irritable at being obliged to feel furtive . |
| 9 | Doctor and The Crippens were also scheduled to appear , as were Sore Throat , and the guest list seemed likely to be something of a hardcore Who 's Who ? — or at any rate , a hardcore Who 's That ? |
| 10 | Both these opinions were repeated to me by many people and both seemed likely to be true . |
| 11 | There was little traffic , so that Lefevre 's main problem seemed likely to be that of remaining inconspicuous . |
| 12 | He seemed likely to be doing it for quite some time to come as , rather than actually having an election , it is more a case of finding someone willing to take on the job . |
| 13 | The potential benefits of traffic calming on a more extensive scale seemed likely to be widespread , having an impact not just on the policies of the Department of Transport , but also on those of Town Planning and the Environment . |
| 14 | After a long and difficult series of negotiations Nicholas managed to save the greater part of the estate of his brother , who at one time seemed likely to be ruined . |
| 15 | He settled in for what seemed likely to be a long and gloomy winter : there was really nothing he could do except to carry on with his job and perhaps do some unpaid war work . |
| 16 | The UWC was a far more serious threat than the UBC had been : it was entirely outside the control of the party leaders and backed by over a hundred MPs ; it was aimed at a government that included Unionists as well as Liberals ; and it seemed likely to be a vehicle for the overthrow of Bonar Law by Carson . |
| 17 | One was to see her own column — for so J.D. called it — in print , another was to know whether or not Dr Neil had read it , and still another was to know what he thought of it — and none of these desires seemed likely to be satisfied . |
| 18 | While Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa were expected to accrue some of the black support which would otherwise have gone to Wilder , the principal beneficiary of Wilder 's withdrawal seemed likely to be front-runner Bill Clinton , who had won considerable black support in his five campaigns for the governorship of Arkansas . |
| 19 | The coincidence with union action boded ill for the survey ; response rates to the questionnaire seemed likely to be very low . |
| 20 | To John this seemed likely to be a precedent . |
| 21 | Saudi Arabia , as its new oil minister Hisham Nazer stressed , had no intention of acting — as it once had — as OPEC 's ‘ swing producer ’ , expanding production if the aggregate OPEC output fell short of the ceiling and cutting back if the ceiling seemed likely to be exceeded . |
| 22 | Equally it might be argued that since withdrawal from NATO was the last card he could play in his campaign against American influence , short of defecting from the West altogether , there were good reasons not to play it until it seemed likely to be effective or became absolutely necessary . |
| 23 | The funny thing was that Lizzy seemed glad to be going . |
| 24 | He seemed glad to be rid of it . |
| 25 | Todd 's follow-up on the hour , from similar range , arose from Pearson 's cleverly squirted pass , but only after Atkins , swinging wildly , had made a hash of his clearance as Dawson 's barnstorming run down the right seemed sure to be betrayed by a poorly-struck cross . |
| 26 | It seemed curious to be describing such ice-cold seas while sitting in a palm-thatched Bahamian beach café that looked on to a shoreline where pelicans perched under the diamond-hard sun . |
| 27 | Yet all her looks , even the boy , seemed still to be summarised in her present being ; even their very first meeting and the dreadful scene at the fence were somehow gathered in , redeemed and graced , as if reflected in the golden eyes of the ram . |
| 28 | To my inexperienced eyes she seemed still to be floating far too high in the water , and I doubted that we would get away before sunset . |
| 29 | Rose seemed still to be genuinely upset . |
| 30 | His smile was open and friendly , and suddenly it seemed preposterous to be standing here , on a Roman street corner , arguing with a man who had taken her from an existence that she 'd hated to one that was all she 'd ever dreamed of . |