Example sentences of "something that seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we are still unhappy to have lost our holiday for something that seemed out of our control . |
| 2 | He glanced up and caught sight of Karelius with something that seemed akin to relief . |
| 3 | A normal family life , he repeated to himself , and smiled almost wanly at the thought of something that seemed destined to elude him for several years to come . |
| 4 | However , the meeting also established the desktop as COSE 's first priority , something that seemed clear at COSE 's announcement last month . |
| 5 | But it was n't something that seemed to worry Belov . |
| 6 | But there clung about her something that seemed much older , ten years older , a sort of coolness — not coldness or indifference , but a limpid aloofness ; coolness in the way that one thinks of coolness on a hot summer 's day . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , I like horses , ’ she agreed lamely , then , unable to think of anything intelligent to say about them , asked something that seemed of far more importance . |
| 8 | There was something that seemed very easy for lots of these people , and I was looking at it as somebody who did n't feel quite so easy about what they were doing . |
| 9 | She knows that even something that seems so simple as giving a wash has to be thought about and done in a sensitive way . |
| 10 | Here is something that seems very like intelligence , and we must ask whether it is really that , or merely another clever but mechanical programming finesse that we do not yet see . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , that 's something that seems fresh to me . |
| 12 | You know , you 're sitting there with these guys , you 're looking for something to do , there 's a pile of instruments and you grab something that seems to fit . |
| 13 | But we are often faced with the experienced need to make ‘ sense ’ of our lives and our feelings and goals , to relate confused fragments of ourselves into something that seems more coherent and of which we feel more in control . |
| 14 | " The imagination " , wrote Beveridge , " merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where , by the dim light of the knowledge that we carry , we may glimpse something that seems of interest . |
| 15 | All too easily , if you pin the whole plot on something that seems to you a tremendous novelty , you can find that some writer you have n't happened to read has had much the same idea before you . |
| 16 | Here we have something that seems a little paradoxical , until we think about it further . |
| 17 | The acceptance of a bottom line , something that seems to have been singularly missing in the British negotiating stance , will provide its own discipline . |
| 18 | Where , then , did and do the remainder , the ‘ others ’ fit : — ‘ on the edge ’ ; in some buffer zone between categories ; or in a hybrid form , grappling both to make a space and to find a name : Fibre Art — Who Are you ? ’ talks of this hybrid form as an ‘ undecidable ’ ( Derrida ) , ‘ something that seems to belong to one genre , but overshoots its borders and seems no less at home in another … |
| 19 | Something that seems to be sadly lacking in this house . |