Example sentences of "seem to [be] [adj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always Poshekhonov seemed to be close to him . |
| 2 | But his general gist seemed to be close to his lordship 's , concluding with a call for a freezing of German reparation payments and the withdrawal of French troops from the Ruhr region . |
| 3 | He seemed to be upset about something . |
| 4 | In the early Middle Ages , every royal family , as generation succeeded generation , seemed to be unhappy in its own way . |
| 5 | A Golders Green police spokesman said : ‘ He seemed to be obsessed with her and is known to the police as a pest who has been to court . ’ |
| 6 | She was sitting beside her father who seemed to be asleep on his back in the grass . |
| 7 | But no such relationship was necessarily apparent in 1945 , with The Economist in London indignantly protesting on 8 December 1945 that the communists seemed to be correct in their claim that the American object was to ruin Britain . |
| 8 | The very air seemed to be alive with his anger . |
| 9 | It seemed to be essential to her sense of identity , but I was finding it wearisome . |
| 10 | Those dark eyes had softened considerably , but they seemed to be boring into her and she had a ridiculous urge to duck her head . |
| 11 | While Robyn was hesitating , the office began to fill up with men wearing drab suits and dull ties and with the pasty complexions that seemed to be common to everybody who worked in the factory . |
| 12 | He was a very successful , very good-looking professional in his mid-thirties — just as Tom Russell was , although that was irrelevant , of course — and to find that he seemed to be interested in her was satisfying somehow . |
| 13 | The regular aircrew treated us quite well as a rule but there were one or two time serving Air Gunners who seemed to be jealous of our youth and high spirits , and the majority of the skippers were real gents who appreciated that without the National Service contingent the Washingtons could not be crewed correctly . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , although time is not identical with motion or change , it seemed to be dependent on them . |
| 15 | This year seemed to be full of them . |
| 16 | Adjoining Tommy Sparks was yet another pub , the street seemed to be full of them , this one was called The Catherine Wheel , an unusual name believed to have come from the eleventh century Knights of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai . |
| 17 | He seemed to fill it — the very air she was breathing seemed to be full of him , air that he had pulled deep into his lungs first … |
| 18 | He seemed to be excited about something . |
| 19 | Although he seemed to be oblivious of what had happened , because he was concentrating on some letter or other , Eliot looked up resignedly and with a smile of one all too accustomed to the lack of business acumen in other people ; but I could see that he was also relieved to find me not too cast down . |
| 20 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend consider advising local authorities — which still seem to be unaware of their present powers on which they can act and circulating information to them to tell them that if they want to come down on Sunday traders , the statute book in Britain already gives them that authority ? |
| 21 | We seem to be unaware of our true essence , unable to express that essence authentically , and therefore unable to embody who we really are in the sight of others . |
| 22 | In this paper , we identify a number of conditions that seem to be conducive to their optimum level of functioning . |
| 23 | Wherever I play , I seem to be confident in myself and I am revelling in my return to fitness . |
| 24 | Feminist psychological theories ' inadequacies seem to be due to their close but largely unexamined relationship with this concept . |
| 25 | They seem to be harmless in themselves but conditions under which copepods flourish , are also conditions under which various fish parasites , notably gill flukes , thrive . |
| 26 | Occupational therapists seem to be rare in their concentration on what people can do rather than what they are unable to do . |
| 27 | You seem to be OK with him . |
| 28 | On the face of it , two lines of defence seem to be open to him . |
| 29 | I think its a case of the grass being greener on the other side , you know , you never seem to be happy with what you have yourself you always see it in somebody else , gosh I wish I had her hair or her skin or her body shape , you just never seem to be satisfied with what you 've got and yet other people see you as looking very attractive |
| 30 | Although the few schools that have introduced changes seem to be enthusiastic about them , wider implementation will require sticks as well as the nebulous carrots of increased staff and student satisfaction . |