Example sentences of "[ex0] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to be the fairly uncomplicated desire among the community to see all the children attend the same school , as an expression of relationships existing within the community . |
| 2 | There seemed to be people about , but I was n't sure . |
| 3 | There seemed to be no real point in arguing with her . |
| 4 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 5 | The cuts in the hand were superficial and there seemed to be nothing else wrong . |
| 6 | There seemed no hope now , nothing to go for except a curiously marked pocket which fitted two finger tips . |
| 7 | Otherwise , there seemed little to commend it . |
| 8 | There seemed to be an element of ‘ never again' in the choice of a man whose whole personality and way of working are in dramatic contrast to the distant , dictatorial von Karajan , who died on 16 July . |
| 9 | There seemed to be plenty to eat , the French are masters at rustling up something to eat at very short notice . |
| 10 | There seemed to be a shortage of shell dressings . |
| 11 | There seemed grounds for believing that the Thatcher government was , at least for a time , losing direction . |
| 12 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 13 | Still , at Evanston , he allowed the personal meeting to count — with Hungarian Christians oppressed in a satellite state , with a black South African who merely by being there seemed to make the Afrikaaner defence of apartheid incompatible with Christianity . |
| 14 | Sometimes they fought and sometimes they fucked and there seemed little difference between the two . |
| 15 | There seemed hardly time for anyone to wander off , but wander she had , and she had come to swinging happily on a swing in the park playground . |
| 16 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 17 | Once again there seemed to be no one around the Prince and Princess with the foresight to see that the situation was becoming seriously out of control . |
| 18 | All the more pity , therefore , that , in his sweeping dismissals of British cinema where there seemed nothing to praise beyond Humphrey Jennings ' poetic documentaries , he refused any engagement with the darker elements in the native cinematic culture . |
| 19 | There seemed to be so little mutual interest , so little to build on . |
| 20 | There seemed to be no incompatibility between building a welfare state at home and discharging the responsibilities of a great power abroad . |
| 21 | And to all Britain 's European allies there seemed to be something incongruous about her ending conscription just as they were trying to expand their conscript forces under American pressure , in order to make the forward defence of Western Europe , which they all desired , a practicable strategy . |
| 22 | American political pressure for agreement on the formation of the force was so intense that there seemed little chance of it being rejected by NATO on military or financial grounds . |
| 23 | Allott supported him for a while , and at 278 for 7 , with Lamb on 98 , there seemed a chance that the follow-on might be saved . |
| 24 | I wanted a restaurant , one simple wholesome restaurant , but there seemed to be none . |
| 25 | Most depressingly of all , there seemed no hope , even among the young people . |
| 26 | Everybody else there seemed to have Alzheimer 's . |
| 27 | Whatever the point of the conversation was , it held them both tense , their eyes staring until there seemed almost to be an invisible bond . |
| 28 | There seemed to be a block in her chest so that she could not breathe properly . |
| 29 | We stopped for her to regain her breath , then , ‘ I ask because there seemed a sort of affinity between us . |
| 30 | There seemed to be no place for the concept of a human soul sustained by a divine being , which exists in other religions , independently of the Christian accretion of the Man-God and suffering Saviour . |