Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] seemed [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman seemed to be unaware of the great progress being made in building an independent and renewable sector in electricity . |
| 2 | This variation seemed to be due both to the severity of the impairment and to personality factors ; it would therefore be simplistic and unwise to make generalisations based entirely on impairment . |
| 3 | No further information seemed to be forthcoming and Rose still had tight hold of the ring . |
| 4 | This year seemed to be full of them . |
| 5 | At time of NME going to press , the situation in the charts was still ongoing , but the MAS campaign seemed to be close to striking its first blow with the new HOLLY JOHNSON single hovering around the Top 100 . |
| 6 | For the first time in a decade the Thatcherite crusade seemed to be faltering , though how permanently it was too early to judge . |
| 7 | The the options seem to me , as Mr Mr said that the thing had got so convoluted and confused that the simple option seemed to be close it all down and I I would imagine that groups , other than ourselves who 've had people like me in the group who 've said why are this thing coming up again , let's close it down and have done with it . |
| 8 | In spite of all the centuries which he had to learn about it the traditional ship-wright seemed to be unable to understand about shear . |
| 9 | With the advent of Lloyd George , who as President of the Board proved to be no mean performer at the art of conciliation , the policy of promoting " permanent machinery " , industry by industry , for the settlement of disputes began to move into top gear , if only for the reason that no alternative policy seemed to be available . |
| 10 | The very air seemed to be alive with his anger . |
| 11 | Exceedingly self-reliant , each man seemed to be able to do his own thinking and to be purely democratic and independent in his ideas and purposes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was very hot and the coolest clothing seemed to be native , but the transport was somewhat primitive . |
| 14 | Although the changes were presented as local government reform , the main criteria which underlay the new legislation seemed to be national in origin . |
| 15 | The whole place seemed to be throbbing with the music they made . |
| 16 | The whole world seemed to be sleeping , apart from Barbara . |
| 17 | Whereas our two first patients were homozygous for methionine at codon 129 of the prion protein gene , the last patient seemed to be heterozygous , encoding a methionine and a valine from each allele . |
| 18 | The whole country seemed to be full of Tiller Girls kicking in their little check outfits . |
| 19 | His whole arm seemed to be afire , a searing contrast to the cold sweat he felt break out on his brow . |