Example sentences of "[noun pl] that seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The matron moved towards Elinor 's bed on legs that seemed to be joined to her feet without ankles : she did not walk so much as stomp . |
| 2 | Since the end of the seventeenth century the Cecils , at Burghley House just outside the town , had controlled the election of both members by a combination of methods that seemed to leave no loophole for a mistake . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The face was long and pale , with a shaggy beard and eyes that seemed to look out from deep hollows . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was a humorous light in her keen black eyes that seemed somehow warm and welcoming . |
| 7 | She was nameless ; they called her Fox , for her sandy hair and brows , for the sharply blue eyes that seemed to rake through you and see nothing of interest . |
| 8 | She was a small , round woman with eyes that seemed too small for her face which was flushed red ; it was as much she could do to struggle up , rolling from side to side and , I noticed , smelling of drink . |
| 9 | The most striking thing about him was the intensity of his eyes ; very dark brown , staring , with a simian penetration emphasized by the remarkably clear whites ; eyes that seemed not quite human . |
| 10 | He looked at her with hard eyes that seemed to see every thought she had ever had . |
| 11 | With a helpless sigh she stared into deep grey eyes that seemed to see too much . |
| 12 | Gazing into grey eyes that seemed incredibly gentle and soft , she forgot all about his reasons for being there , forgot everything except this infuriating giant who was slowly but surely destroying her peace of mind , ‘ Why ? ’ she whispered . |
| 13 | Again Isabel looked up , into clear , sympathetic eyes that seemed to offer understanding and infinite tolerance . |
| 14 | Her eyes held Morse 's for a few seconds — eyes that seemed rather timid , yet potentially mischievous , too — until her mouth managed a nervous little ‘ Hullo ’ . |
| 15 | And those eyes that seemed to dance and scowl at the same time from beneath their fringe of long dark lashes gave him a restless , unpredictable air . |
| 16 | It is a passage in Così fan tutte set to Dorabella 's words : ‘ See the fire in his eyes that seem to shoot off flames and darts . ’ |
| 17 | Into other fields , other woods , other pastures that seemed sweet but were full , as it turned out , of stinking weeds ! ’ |
| 18 | To avoid the complications of need theories it has become more acceptable to talk about goals , values or work orientations — i.e. to acknowledge that people have tendencies to return to similar ends or goals that seem to be ( sufficiently ) important to them to suggest an underlying theme , pattern or goal behind their behaviour . |
| 19 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 20 | Luciano Bartocci 's office was tall and narrow , with shelves of books that seemed to lean inwards like the sides of a chimney as they rose towards the distant ceiling . |
| 21 | Though this kind of book is now looked down on , it does represent a significant strand in popular literary culture , and is a world away from the glossy semi-literate illustrated books that seem more attractive . |
| 22 | It felt strange now , but there were still a few shops that seemed familiar . |
| 23 | To the south lay the workers ' quarters ; long , low huts that seemed embedded in the earth . |
| 24 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 25 | Remembering what Garvey had said about comforting the sick dame , Gabriel leapt to the end of the play and snatched at the only words that seemed the right ones for these poor corpses , these walking dead : |
| 26 | Be careful about contemporary words that seem familiar but may not have had the same meaning or implication in the modern period . |
| 27 | Even when applied to the novel , as in Leavis 's writings on novelists or Lodge 's own early critical book , Language of Fiction , the New Criticism looked for passages of quasi-authorial description , or the exploration of consciousnesses that seem to carry authorial support . |
| 28 | It looked fragile , held together by struts that seemed no longer than bits of wire . |
| 29 | His eyes resemble dish-telescopes that seem to look right through his friends , and he sees the psychic energy people emit as an astrophysicist 's radio-telescope ‘ sees ’ sounds bounced off distant galaxies . |
| 30 | She tried to ignore the feeling , as well as the insistent whispering voices that seemed to be always at the edge of her hearing . |