Example sentences of "[noun] they seemed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For other people at work they seemed to be such joyous occasions . |
| 2 | More and more fruits they seemed to be importing in those days , all colours . |
| 3 | One moment they seemed to be flying through and over mountains and the next they were skimming over a long , fertile valley , turning to come in with the wind and losing height steadily . |
| 4 | After the race they seemed to be coming up a little more , and by the time we arrived back in Britain I was covered in them . |
| 5 | In spite of their success they seemed to be vulnerable to extirpation in a way that some of the less imaginative molluscs , like the bivalves seemed to be immune . |
| 6 | But pistachios are no longer the sure-fire success they seemed to be in the 1960s , when Aegina 's soil and air produced nuts of a quality nobody appeared to be able to match . |
| 7 | Both were subject to easily measured norms , timetables and co-ordinated planning : therefore of all systems they seemed to be the most suitable for the immediate application of Taylorism and what Lenin called ‘ the precision of clockwork ’ . |
| 8 | Grant had watched them standing in front of the electronic display , puzzling at the excessive time they seemed to be wasting . |