Example sentences of "seem to be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite what seemed to be a nice little boom , British productivity had grown more slowly than that of any comparable European country : 40 per cent compared with Germany 's and Italy 's 150 per cent , not to consider Japan 's 400 per cent . |
| 2 | She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk ! |
| 3 | A relative tachycardia was seen during the procedure in many patients , and seemed to be a normal physiological response to the gastroscopy . |
| 4 | I asked , when we were safely disposed at what seemed to be a vacant table . |
| 5 | From careful analysis of recorded associations between individual arterial pressures and oral contraceptive prescription and withdrawal , oral contraception seemed to be a probable sole cause in three in whom pressure fell permanently after stopping the tablets and a probable contributory cause for another three whose blood pressures fell on withdrawal but subsequently showed a sustained rise . |
| 6 | The romantic is attracted to Jesus because he seemed to be a great charmer who attracted others . |
| 7 | There seemed to be a great urgency to get married , to live in London and start a family because we were trying to be the same as everyone else . |
| 8 | Several speakers agreed that there seemed to be a great waste of resources in the whole training area . |
| 9 | He saw what seemed to be a great sheet coming down from heaven . |
| 10 | At least murder seemed to be a great improver of manners , he reflected . |
| 11 | In fact , she found in her review that there seemed to be a great of continuity , that again and again over these forty years researchers were reporting similar sorts of social and psychological impacts of unemployment . |
| 12 | Near the road , on the edge of Winter Marsh itself , there seemed to be a small hamlet , called Crabtree Wick . |
| 13 | Despite the confident appeals , the bat seemed to be a long way away from the ball |
| 14 | Oh it , it was n't there seemed to be a long time you know before they turned one out to make , because it was a very long process rebuilding an aircraft , es especially as the situation was at Walsall . |
| 15 | No , but I thought you seemed to be a long while getting the bugger out . |
| 16 | All Mr Handford heard , however , were the eerie sounds which seemed to be a faint moaning and chuckling coming from the nearby wood . |
| 17 | There seemed to be a new aroma in the air . |
| 18 | In social terms these were tough times and certainly there seemed to be a new excitement in the movies . |
| 19 | ‘ It seemed to be a credible account , ’ Mr Callan said . |
| 20 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 21 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 22 | Working technical equipment seemed to be a male preserve . |
| 23 | In the event , the meeting decreed an adjournment after only 90 minutes ; observers noted that there seemed to be a general desire to paper over the rifts caused by the Gulf war . |
| 24 | What seemed to be a simple matter when merely held as a mental question , verbally unframed and with no thought given to response , appears as a simply impossible problem when it has actually to be put down on paper . |
| 25 | Looked at from this standpoint , the Court of the Tuileries seemed to be a tawdry affair governed by a spirit of careless frivolity where all was hugger-mugger . |
| 26 | It seemed to be a good omen . |
| 27 | The BBC and I finally bade each other goodnight at 6.30 , with what seemed to be a good day 's work on the cassettes . |
| 28 | In conjunction with the opening of the new Detoxification Clinic , this seemed to be a good beginning . |
| 29 | When Matey had ventured a favourable comment about his midnight drinking having stopped , he had simply said , ‘ You must thank McAllister for that , ’ and so her influence seemed to be a good one . |
| 30 | The pool seemed to be a good place to stay . |