Example sentences of "seemed [prep] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hoped in this way to reduce the high refusal rate which is a hazard in sociolinguistic surveys , and indeed the method seemed in general to be successful in this respect ; altogether , out of 40 addresses visited , only 8 refusals were recorded . |
| 2 | His initial appointment was for just two Tests , a demonstration of lack of faith that can not have helped his confidence and seemed to many to be ludicrous . |
| 3 | At that time a woman-centred politics , culture , and sexuality seemed to many to be a useful tactic , or even the only worthwhile long-term goal . |
| 4 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |
| 5 | Uncertainty and the reinterpretation of crucial pieces of work were not yet necessary in physics in the 1870s and 1880s , as they seemed to many to be in the human sciences and in the sphere of religion under the pressure of evolutionary theory and the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 6 | The young men she rustled up as marriage candidates seemed to Algy to be all one person with different haircuts , well-born dullards on their way into industry who exclaimed ‘ I say , how jolly enterprising ! ’ when they heard that Algy was a scene painter , and who surprised her by still dancing foxtrots and rumbas that she thought extinct . |
| 7 | He seemed at first to be hyper-critical — if not disbelieving . |
| 8 | Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair . |
| 9 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 10 | Then she sent Molly into a shadowy room which seemed at first to be empty . |
| 11 | ‘ Every man 's death diminishes us , Robert , ’ he observed , ‘ and I 'm sorry that he should die now when he seemed at last to be recovering his dignity . ’ |