Example sentences of "that seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | At midday , when we shut the shop for lunch , and I drove through the streets , it was only the river , glittering in the hard light , that seemed alive . |
| 2 | He looked mulish now , with his hard-eyed expression that she dreaded , that seemed to treat her as nothing . |
| 3 | I tried an Indian-looking middle-aged man with a pouchy face hidden beneath a large brimmed hat , and a paunchy stomach that seemed to run a perfect little circle round his navel hidden beneath a scruffy fair-isle sweater hidden beneath a wrinkly brown jacket hidden beneath an overcoat which brushed the homeless autumn leaves strewn despairingly across the lawns . |
| 4 | It was a christening that seemed to hunger for significance . |
| 5 | Where is the Wagon Train that seemed permanently to be circling its wagons waiting for a drunken pioneer 's wife to have twins in the last of them ? |
| 6 | Between moves 9 and 13 , he adopted a convoluted plan that seemed only to tangle his own pieces . |
| 7 | This time Damien Cronin kept going a move that seemed about to die and Hastings just made the line near the corner . |
| 8 | Out of nine poems he set to music , Cale eventually chose four , ‘ that seemed to hang together , especially ‘ Lie Still , Sleep Becalmed ’ . |
| 9 | Even six months ago , that seemed an impossible dream , but now , who knows ? |
| 10 | Scott was so successful in styling the building in fine brickwork with ‘ jazz-modern ’ fluting ( as John Betjeman called it ) that , when the Battersea ‘ A ’ station was opened in 1934 it was widely acclaimed as a supremely successful modern treatment of a building type that seemed quintessentially twentieth century . |
| 11 | Instead of her more bellicose approach , the somewhat more neutralist stance of the West Germans loomed larger in NATO , and indeed it was Bonn rather than London that seemed to have the closer relationship with Washington in 1989 . |
| 12 | That afternoon there was a voice among us that seemed to be leading the whole thing — anything he say is what we thinking , but before . |
| 13 | Fenna came offering now only love , huge steady love and joy and that seemed the hardest thing to resist . |
| 14 | She stood still for a long moment that seemed to the others to grow into an age . |
| 15 | There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings . |
| 16 | He liked the forked lightning better than the zig-zag kind and now he was gratified by a second many-branched display that seemed to spring and grow from the river itself , blossoming in the sky above the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 17 | Yet many people in Victorian Britain were not indifferent to the widening divisions between rich and poor that seemed to be a consequence of this ideology . |
| 18 | There was concern in Arty 's voice — a concern that seemed to annoy his father . |
| 19 | ‘ Because so many things that seemed important are n't important any more . ’ |
| 20 | It was MGM that seemed to take the whole business most seriously . |
| 21 | The rise in cinema admissions and consolidation of the industry 's structure meant that , when the restrictions on subject matter were lifted at the end of the war , filmmakers could fully stretch their imaginations on stories that seemed relevant to the post-war mood . |
| 22 | Finding it impossible to break into movies after the production slump of the 1940s , before television offered an alternative route to aspiring filmmakers , people like Anderson , Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz worked instead within sponsored documentaries , while writing about the sort of passionate , personal filmmaking that seemed to be possible in France , Italy , even India , but not in Britain . |
| 23 | He spoke in a pleasing linguistic mixture that seemed to acknowledge no boundaries between Spanish and English . |
| 24 | No one who went to foreign language movies in the late Sixties will easily forget the extraordinary films that seemed to pour out of the state-owned studios of Czechoslavakia . |
| 25 | In fading winter light that seemed wise advice and we retraced our steps to the gentler landscape of Teesdale itself . |
| 26 | The disappearance of manned bombers as well as fighters would reduce the RAF to a missile and air-transport force — not an inviting prospect , but one that seemed too far ahead to worry about unduly in 1957 . |
| 27 | During the 1960s , he demonstrated that dolphins could produce sounds in air that seemed to be direct and relevant imitations of human speech patterns . |
| 28 | The second and third albums , ‘ Freewheelin ’ ( 1962 ) and ‘ The Times They are a Changin ’ ( 1963 ) , established him as a real and original talent , as both singer and songwriter , with a message that seemed as arresting and vital as the times through which he was fortunate to be living . |
| 29 | The one time I ever cried in school was when he blamed me with a severity that seemed to hurt him … . |
| 30 | Until his knees failed him and the cartilages were removed , he was also one of the finest of all cover fielders , with electrifying speed and a pin-point throw that seemed barely credible . |