Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] seemed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly running the club successfully seemed to be the most important thing in her life . |
| 2 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 3 | The likeliest alternative always seemed to be worse . |
| 4 | Most of the enemy still seemed to be asleep as the avalanche of horses and riders bore down upon them in pounding fury . |
| 5 | Yet the yawning emptiness out here upon the vast deck already seemed to be swallowing any sense of connexion with the interior of the fortress-monastery … |
| 6 | The last of the winter snow was melting off the steep slopes , but the flatter areas and the passes still seemed to be well covered . |
| 7 | Mick still seemed to be looking for an excuse to return home , so I chose not to make an issue of the blunder . |
| 8 | No Roman Catholic movement of the left had appeared to help Rome in its political struggles at a time when the suffrage was spreading ; in spite of a few ‘ Christian socialists ’ , Roman Catholicism still seemed to be tied to social and political conservatism . |
| 9 | Personal appearances always seemed to be a bone of contention . |
| 10 | Back in his hometown of Cork , Fergus always seemed to be floating in the wake of the other noted Cork scrum-half , Michael Bradley . |
| 11 | Ruckelshaus is a marked contrast to Burford and her political mentor , the Interior Secretary James Watt , whose attitude often seemed to be that the environment was over-protected . |
| 12 | The parents invariably seemed to be laden with shopping , children , pushchairs , and all the other paraphernalia of parenthood . |
| 13 | The desert sand sometimes seemed to be made up of pellets of dried yeast , road-workers ' grit , or face-powder . |
| 14 | The studios and corridors at Cardiff always seemed to be full of pretty girls . |
| 15 | The favourite still seemed to be going well enough , however , and the adoring masses were not particularly worried as the leading group — Ten of Spades and Desert Orchid , with Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin close behind — thundered down towards the third last fence . |
| 16 | The squire 's white velvet purse had weighed him down , and though he had slipped it out of his jerkin and felt it sink past his feet , coins still seemed to be clinging to his armpit . |
| 17 | Money still seemed to be at the forefront . |
| 18 | His material fortunes always seemed to be less stable than those of most rich men . |
| 19 | All through my childhood , my body always seemed to be going numb . |
| 20 | The amplitude of the vibration even seemed to be reducing slightly , although the movement was still sickeningly massive . |
| 21 | Michael Banks actually seemed to be that man . |
| 22 | In the mid-1970s things still seemed to be going well . |
| 23 | If the Vietminh still seemed to be the only movement capable of achieving the fulfilment of the people 's aspiration to national independence and to social justice , it nevertheless ruled with the aid of physical terror and moral constraint . |
| 24 | It was true that the members of the court sometimes seemed to be in competition in their attempts to gratify Artai 's vanity . |
| 25 | Even the ex-scumnik , Tundrish , spoke with reasonable fluency , though in his case concepts sometimes seemed to be lacking to accompany the words which burbled from his mouth , as if as yet he possessed more words than meanings . |
| 26 | And , blessedly , it was facts that Morse now seemed to be concentrating on as , forgetting Aldrich for the moment , he browsed once again through the questionnaires . |
| 27 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 28 | The paper also seemed to be adopting the use of skin : a site where pleasure and pain are felt and negotiated , a protection from ‘ alien ’ matter , a ‘ keeper ’ of temperature . |
| 29 | Since she 'd met him things that were normally buried fathoms deep seemed to be floating to the surface . |
| 30 | Rincewind turned to run , but the air suddenly seemed to be thicker than treacle . |