Example sentences of "[prep] seeming to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of this was the product of the growing identification nationally of antislavery with political liberalism and thus fear , as in the case of Canterbury , of seeming to be ‘ acting from party feeling only ’ . |
| 2 | The suspended sentence had the disadvantage of seeming to be not quite one thing or the other , with some sentencers succumbing to the temptation of adding to the length of the term of imprisonment which would have been imposed immediately , so balancing the act of suspension with greater severity in the event of a breach . |
| 3 | Labour leader John Smith said Mr Lamont 's speech in which he accused the government of seeming to be in office but not in power had ‘ gravely undermined ’ Mr Major 's credibility . |
| 4 | Labour leader John Smith said Mr Lamont 's speech , in which he accused the government of seeming to be ‘ in office but not in power , ’ undermined Mr Major 's credibility . |
| 5 | Labour leader John Smith said Mr Lamont 's speech in which he accused the government of seeming to be in office but not in power had ‘ gravely undermined ’ Mr Major 's credibility . |
| 6 | From seeming to be a parable or a satire , it ends up as no more than a glimpse of the stunted mentality of a twosome . |
| 7 | Jed watched him in the wing mirror , watched him without seeming to . |
| 8 | I remember how her country beginnings showed themselves then : she made no fuss about seeming to be lost , nor did she work herself up into a state as the aunts would have done , just stood there patiently and quietly while I untangled her and found the way ; and did not even grumble , although after that I let her decide where we should go , which was usually across a field near the sewage plant , and along a road near the gasworks . |
| 9 | She would n't humiliate herself by seeming to be drawn to a man who had appeared to dislike and distrust her on sight . |