Example sentences of "that seem " in BNC.
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| 31 | The important thing , though , was that they paid their admission fee before they became totally paralytic and abusive ; that seemed to be all that really mattered . |
| 32 | Because of his death , aged just forty-two , he is also thought of as a tragic figure , a man who was unable to fulfil the important public service to his people that seemed to be his destiny . |
| 33 | It had begun to seem like the ideas he 'd had when he was younger , that you worked out in school and at night in bed , that seemed so easy , then when it carne to it did n't work out . |
| 34 | But all that seemed almost like a simple happy life , now that he knew the real questions . |
| 35 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
| 36 | All the time , we were making love as we wrote our poems , in a great wave of inspiration and tenderness that seemed as if it could never end . |
| 37 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 38 | As we struggled up the hill with brambles and goose-grass snatching at our clothes there was an almighty clap of thunder together with a flash of lightning that seemed to strike the Jubilee Tower . |
| 39 | ‘ Anything that seemed to offer an explanation of why a vastly less productive society had brought off this breathtaking achievement Was not dismissed but welcomed . ’ |
| 40 | Although not nearly so cold as the ceramic tiles of the hall , the linoleum beneath his bare feet had a chill that seemed to creep right through his body . |
| 41 | The face was long and pale , with a shaggy beard and eyes that seemed to look out from deep hollows . |
| 42 | He backed away , knowing he was invisible on the darkened landing yet fearful of the pale eyes that seemed to penetrate every shadow with their knowing stare . |
| 43 | In the car he had seen himself in words on a page , a helpless being pinioned by letters , manipulated by a creative intelligence that seemed set upon punishment and pain rather than any grace or redemption . |
| 44 | They were not really bad dreams , more an aching yearning pain that seemed to permeate her very being . |
| 45 | This was a memorandum that seemed to have taken on a life of its own : now here , now there , now one , now several , now alone , now gone , now lurking . |
| 46 | North told his colleagues that the release of the hostages was a personal obligation on himself , and that seemed not to put it too strongly . |
| 47 | A gaunt building , Roscommon 's former prison formed a wall that seemed to seal off the end of the town . |
| 48 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 49 | She was garnering awards from Japan to Israel and Ireland , embarking on a movie career that seemed certain to lead to Hollywood stardom — she had even achieved the final confirmation of her status as a member of the élite band entitled to call themselves superstars , a wax image of herself at Madame Tussaud 's . |
| 50 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 51 | The ditch seemed a long time ago : two weeks and three days back to the lonely silent abandoned struggle in the attic , to the life that seemed now to be the dream , with Shellerton the reality . |
| 52 | Perhaps her husband was faithful to her , as he swore ; in her present mood , that seemed just as deplorable as his imagined infidelities . |
| 53 | When Palmer made a hash of a perfectly weighted through pass from Dozzell two minutes from the end , that seemed to be that . |
| 54 | THE Premier League yesterday came up with a peace formula that seemed likely to avert the first strike by English footballers . |
| 55 | It is also likely that the percentages will be on the sliding scale that seemed so attractive to the PFA a fortnight ago when peace was at hand . |
| 56 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 57 | What made things more disconcerting was a strange banging noise that seemed to be coming from the ceiling . |
| 58 | Which made it all the harder to understand why Wilkinson had not begun with Cantona in the side on a summery day that seemed ideally suited to his ball-playing skills . |
| 59 | But we are still unhappy to have lost our holiday for something that seemed out of our control . |
| 60 | As for the subtlety , that seemed quite alien to the woman who coochy-cooed over children she wanted to mutilate . |