Example sentences of "seem [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 32 | His eyes were fixed on someone or something at the room 's edge and Lucille , turning to see what had caught his astonished attention , saw the golden girl returning d'Alembord 's gaze with what seemed to be pure poison . |
| 33 | He seemed to be upset about something . |
| 34 | But the man himself seemed to be unconcerned about this . |
| 35 | Rincewind turned to run , but the air suddenly seemed to be thicker than treacle . |
| 36 | His uncle seemed to be unaware that time had passed him by . |
| 37 | The irritating thing was that he seemed to be unaware of the beneficial effects of AZT , or the creative potential of AIDS sufferers . |
| 38 | Jack Foley 's eyes rarely left Nan 's face , but she seemed to be unaware of this and talked as if all three of them were equal partners in the conversation . |
| 39 | He seemed to be unaware that there had been a further post-duopoly review and that competition within the telecommunications industry is being opened up generally . |
| 40 | For example , he thought that BT should be allowed to offer entertainment services but seemed to be unaware that it could and had applied for cable franchises . |
| 41 | The hon. Gentleman seemed to be unaware of the great progress being made in building an independent and renewable sector in electricity . |
| 42 | Catherine seemed to be unconscious , and Mr Edgar was so worried about her that he forgot about Heathcliff for the moment . |
| 43 | There were a lot of reasons why she did n't want to get involved in Maxim 's domestic life , particularly when he seemed to be intent on jumping from the tenth storey of his career structure — but in the end , why not ? |
| 44 | She wanted to get up and run ; run as fast and as far as she could away from this man who seemed to be intent on humiliating her . |
| 45 | Between 780 and 782 Saxony seemed to be well under control ; even when Charles left the country , no immediate rebellion occurred , and enforced missionary work seemed to be successful . |
| 46 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 47 | In spite of their success they seemed to be vulnerable to extirpation in a way that some of the less imaginative molluscs , like the bivalves seemed to be immune . |
| 48 | They seemed to be gleaming behind the glass . |
| 49 | Because some of its passages seemed to be critical of the religious establishment , the authorities castigated it as being ‘ scandalous and seditious ’ . |
| 50 | There do seem to be some concerns which recur throughout the interviews and seemed to be crucial to people 's views about decision-making in the education and lives of young disabled people . |
| 51 | It 's hard to tell , cos I always seemed to be awake , but then I remember waking up with a jump when this voice comes over the loud speaker . |
| 52 | He seemed to be awake for a long time , I think , you know like you wake up and you do n't know what to do with yourself , I think it was like that , so every quarter of an hour or so he kept me , shouting for a drink he did n't know quite what to do with himself |
| 53 | In the early Middle Ages , every royal family , as generation succeeded generation , seemed to be unhappy in its own way . |
| 54 | ‘ However , although he lavished all his love and many gifts on his adored wife , she seemed to be unhappy . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | For other people at work they seemed to be such joyous occasions . |
| 57 | This seemed to be one of her bad days . |
| 58 | Why has there been no mention in your mag of the Harmony company , who seemed to be one of the earliest to rely on mass-production techniques to rival the ‘ hand-built ’ approach of Martin , Gibson and Washburn in terms of sales figures and affordability ? |
| 59 | THE Eight Bells seemed to be one of those pubs that do most of their trade in the late evenings , for at seven o'clock the saloon bar was deserted . |
| 60 | His whole body seemed to be one total ache now . |