Example sentences of "[ex0] seemed to [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judged in terms of former occupations , there seemed to be much more variety within than between classes . |
| 2 | There seemed to be many of them . |
| 3 | There seemed to be little hope for the future , just a mundane job and low pay and fewer prospects for meeting the opposite sex once university days were over . |
| 4 | Following this there was considerable despondency amongst the committee as there seemed to be little hope for the future . |
| 5 | Finally , as summarized in table 4 , there seemed to be little interest in some of the current general matters of concern in education . |
| 6 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 7 | On everything , house , garden , terrace , green slopes , water , old oaks , fern , moss , woods again , and far away across the openings in the prospect , to the distance lying wide before us with a purple bloom upon it , there seemed to be such undisturbed repose . |
| 8 | There seemed to be few females outwith these two categories . |
| 9 | There seemed to be few ethnic minority children , one in each class perhaps , certainly none in the youngest group . |
| 10 | There seemed to be more quarrels indoors when the children were crowded together . |
| 11 | This year , however , there seemed to be more of them than usual , and one star , Barbra Streisand , stayed in town for a few days and had dinner with Janet Reno , the attorney-general . |
| 12 | There seemed to be more of them collecting by the minute . |
| 13 | ‘ There seemed to be more people than ever there . |
| 14 | I needed to go to the toilet , and with every step I took there seemed to be more convulsions from my guts . |
| 15 | There seemed to be some other words at the bottom of the landscape , but O could not make these out . |
| 16 | There seemed to be some kind of a row going on upstairs . |
| 17 | of for a long time ) and this was a puzzle still to be solved , but at least there seemed to be some evidence that fusion was happening , proving their original hypothesis . |
| 18 | In all four cases where there seemed to be some knowledge of the victim before the alleged offences were committed , the cases were contested by alleging the woman 's consent . |
| 19 | Well yes and no , erm , every body that seemed to get involved there seemed to be some strange thing missing |
| 20 | Whether it was the distance , whether the record , because it must have been a record , had been deliberately slowed — there seemed to be some tonal distortion as well — I could n't tell , but the song came with a dreamlike slowness and dimness , almost as if it was being sung out of the stars and had had to cross all that night and space to reach me . |
| 21 | ‘ There seemed to be some doubt in your mind about my exact gender , ’ Maggie put in drily , and he cast her an irritated look , his dark eyes running over her again as she sat facing him , her hands in the pockets of the loose shirt . |
| 22 | I can not remember if he asked if they were British or not , but there seemed to be some doubt as to whose side these bombers were on . |
| 23 | Basically , the latest , and I must n't take any credit , and there seemed to be some credit , Chair . |
| 24 | There seemed to be another impasse . |
| 25 | The group then recalled their own experiences with children who refused to work and how often there seemed to be another child in the family who ‘ can not do anything wrong ’ . |
| 26 | There seemed to be enough of them . |
| 27 | There seemed to be enough darkness without seeking more — Ana 's blindness , Felipe 's secret ways and her own . |