Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun pl] seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house and its occupants seemed to be closing in on her . |
| 2 | He observed that the fossils were found in areas populated by both deciduous and coniferous forests , and their beaks seemed to be suited to browsing on trees and shrubs . |
| 3 | Even if the ethos does permit them to check out how they are doing , it remains unlikely that it will encourage anything more than a superficial sharing of doubts about what they are doing : about the disparity between their hopes for teaching and the effects , or lack of them , that they and their colleagues seem to be achieving . |
| 4 | In both cases the intronic ORFs and their introns seem to be intimately linked and appear to be propagated together . |
| 5 | The flowers had dripped all down his trousers , his face was frighteningly lacking in colour , he was trembling , and his lips seemed to be sticking together as he tried to speak . |
| 6 | But the only coherent thought in her head was an awareness that fitzAlan 's heart was pounding violently against her palms and his hands seemed to be shaking almost as much as she was . |