Example sentences of "that [pers pn] seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ellie could n't actually hear what they were saying , only that they seemed to be arguing . |
| 32 | The feelings of the young hon. Member for Gedling ( Mr. Mitchell ) about the way in which local government has broken up were expressed subjectively and I suspect that he will not agree with me when I say that they seemed to date from about 1979 — and we know what happened in 1979 when the hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was first elected . |
| 33 | People will say that they seem to be wishing that the person would hurry up and die , but in reality it seems that this event is the only one that can break the suspended animation of events being acted out in front of them . |
| 34 | For a while they are ‘ egocentric ’ — so self-centred that they seem to be interested only in themselves and their own point of view . |
| 35 | Positioning the moss at the bottom of the picture , push the wild flower stalks into the moss so that they seem to be growing naturally . |
| 36 | Perhaps the oddest feature of evidence on spillovers is that they seem to be particularly prevalent in high R&D sectors , and this raises the question of whether they actually do undermine incentives to do R&D ( see Levin , 1988 ) . |
| 37 | I have never understood why she was criticised by the Opposition for speaking up for Britain , but I am not exactly clear about their present position , except that they seem to be claiming that they can negotiate better conditions than the Government , despite their failure when in government in 1975 to negotiate proper terms for our entry . |
| 38 | Yet decisions about the significance , for entry into higher education , of school-level achievement in public examinations are made all the time — and it is odd that they seem to be made without reference to CNAA , BTEC or the NCVQ . |
| 39 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 40 | And she said that they seem to be selling more |
| 41 | They are simply not they do n't expect the level of sexual tension that they seem to be identifying as a problem in Oxford . |
| 42 | My view of the exhibition and these complementary texts is that they seem for the most part to lack the critical motivation and the dialectical irony of the Situationists . |
| 43 | Often , the coping strategies that teachers adopt to deal with contextual contingencies can become so habitual , so routinized , that they seem like coping no more , but worthwhile and valid teaching . |
| 44 | Old feuds of race were diminishing , rivalries and prejudices were by degrees fading out.Such frequent and such intimate relations had thus been established between nations , that it seemed as if they must soon unite in one family , in one single federal state . |
| 45 | When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive . |
| 46 | All these went out so silently , and with such a measured pace , that it seemed as if there were only a score . |
| 47 | Some of the great controversies were so trivial that it seemed as if people had positively to search for something to quarrel about . |
| 48 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 49 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
| 50 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 51 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 52 | She wanted — needed him so much , in spite of everything , that it seemed as if her entire heart and soul were crying out to him . |
| 53 | Except that it seemed to him rather funny . |
| 54 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 55 | When in the eighth century the Saxon saint Guthlac penetrated the heart of the Fens to found Crowland Abbey , he was described by the monk Felix of Crowland as encountering demons in the wilderness , which ‘ came with such immoderate noises and immense horror , that it seemed to him that all between heaven and earth resounded with their dreadful cries ’ . |
| 56 | So my skin began to look better , my guts were giving a great , big heartfelt vote of thanks , but I went on losing weight that it seemed to me I could ill afford to lose . |
| 57 | Although the man moved quickly the moment was so vivid to Marian that it seemed to her as though time had frozen and become an icicle of stillness . |
| 58 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 59 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 60 | R.B. Yes , another teacher mentioned this when I talked to her and I was saying that it seemed to me that it was a blind spot . |