Example sentences of "[noun] seemed [prep] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole Brigade seemed to be on deck admiring the coastline in front of us . |
| 2 | Darwin , with his inherited money , doing little experiments in his garden and studying what we would call ecology , seemed rather like a survival from the eighteenth century : the new way to end arguments about animals seemed to be through chemistry . |
| 3 | Yet despite the ( partly chemically induced ) euphoria of pop music in the summer of 1967 — as the youth utopia seemed to be within grasp — that year also represents the highwater mark of the Teen age , of the love affair between the dominant culture and youth . |
| 4 | The entire camp seemed to be in movement . |
| 5 | And now the quarrel was under its own impetus , and once again a trial seemed to be in progress , with both of them as accusers , but both figuring also as investigators of the lowest description , wretched hirelings , turning over the stones to find where the filth lay buried . |
| 6 | Even highly conservative scientists became concerned that some large-scale change to ecosystems in industrialised countries seemed to be under way . |
| 7 | The reason I 'm telling you all this is that not so long ago the PD scene seemed to be in decline . |
| 8 | Maggie 's feet seemed to be on fire with each stone she encountered . |
| 9 | The administration of additional inspired oxygen seemed to be of benefit ; in 15 patients with baseline hypoxaemia this would be expected as episodic desaturation has been reported to be more severe if baseline hypoxaemia is present . |
| 10 | The moving pictures on the wall seemed to be of events occurring elsewhere on the planet , or in the universe , across the ages . |
| 11 | The Russian botanist Anushkia Smyslov seemed to be in charge , directing people to clear twisted metal beams from the corridor and check the Base 's integrity with air-pressure sensors . |
| 12 | However , even though the two bodies seemed to be in competition , the edge was held by the EEC . |
| 13 | That continued until the early sixties , when , for the first time , his career seemed to be under threat . |
| 14 | Not many people seemed to be at work . |
| 15 | of the man seemed to be on display . |
| 16 | All her concern seemed to be for Terry 's family , especially his mother , and Anne was even more surprised when Sarah refused to go back to the house with her . |
| 17 | There was a lot of activity around the orchard as we arrived back at H.Q The sniping had increased and a mortar attack seemed to be under way . |
| 18 | She laid great stress on these little courtesies , the formal acts of politeness that women in their emancipated state seemed to be in danger of losing . |
| 19 | In a paper of late August 1855 P. A. Valuev , Governor of the province of Kurland on the Baltic coast , deplored the conduct of the war , asked whether the present structure of Russian government facilitated the development of the country 's strengths , lamented the paralysis of the empire 's administration , and deplored the fact that Russian government and society seemed to be at odds with one another . |
| 20 | Maggie had n't even taken notes , and most of Mitch 's shots seemed to be for pleasure . |
| 21 | At least , Sara was ostensibly pushing it , but Dr Kent 's hand seemed to be on top of hers , helping her to guide it along the passage between the rooms . |
| 22 | It was a time when commonsense and reality seemed to be in suspension . |
| 23 | First , however , it disposed of the concept of ‘ design technician ’ put forward by the Coldstream-Summerson Report , a concept which had evoked a hostile reception from the art colleges in 1970 , on the grounds that the expression seemed to be in use only in the ceramics industry . |
| 24 | Their main problem seemed to be in midfield . |
| 25 | Crondall seemed to be in need of a Pied Piper to answer the problem of an increasing rat population in a rubbish dump near the recreation ground . |
| 26 | Local issues , including the election of three independent candidates who campaigned against a new road , played a part in the Tories ' loss of Merton , and similar borough-specific factors seemed to be at work in those Labour authorities where the party fared particularly badly . |
| 27 | The better option seemed to be in Europe . ’ |