Example sentences of "seem to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his general gist seemed to be close to his lordship 's , concluding with a call for a freezing of German reparation payments and the withdrawal of French troops from the Ruhr region . |
| 2 | At time of NME going to press , the situation in the charts was still ongoing , but the MAS campaign seemed to be close to striking its first blow with the new HOLLY JOHNSON single hovering around the Top 100 . |
| 3 | Always Poshekhonov seemed to be close to him . |
| 4 | All that was there , however , was a complex mass of brass mechanism , though many of the pieces seemed to be inlaid with solid-state etchings . |
| 5 | It was amazing how his underwear and the case seemed to be involved in a kind of dance , in which the arrival home of his shirts might depend on who was found guilty of what . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He seemed to be upset about something . |
| 8 | But the man himself seemed to be unconcerned about this . |
| 9 | The irritating thing was that he seemed to be unaware of the beneficial effects of AZT , or the creative potential of AIDS sufferers . |
| 10 | Jack Foley 's eyes rarely left Nan 's face , but she seemed to be unaware of this and talked as if all three of them were equal partners in the conversation . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman seemed to be unaware of the great progress being made in building an independent and renewable sector in electricity . |
| 12 | There were a lot of reasons why she did n't want to get involved in Maxim 's domestic life , particularly when he seemed to be intent on jumping from the tenth storey of his career structure — but in the end , why not ? |
| 13 | She wanted to get up and run ; run as fast and as far as she could away from this man who seemed to be intent on humiliating her . |
| 14 | They seemed to be gleaming behind the glass . |
| 15 | Because some of its passages seemed to be critical of the religious establishment , the authorities castigated it as being ‘ scandalous and seditious ’ . |
| 16 | There do seem to be some concerns which recur throughout the interviews and seemed to be crucial to people 's views about decision-making in the education and lives of young disabled people . |
| 17 | He seemed to be awake for a long time , I think , you know like you wake up and you do n't know what to do with yourself , I think it was like that , so every quarter of an hour or so he kept me , shouting for a drink he did n't know quite what to do with himself |
| 18 | In the early Middle Ages , every royal family , as generation succeeded generation , seemed to be unhappy in its own way . |
| 19 | William seemed to be obsessed with the fact that he had n't . |
| 20 | Why was it that everyone she 'd met lately seemed to be obsessed with star signs ? |
| 21 | A Golders Green police spokesman said : ‘ He seemed to be obsessed with her and is known to the police as a pest who has been to court . ’ |
| 22 | He did play really well in the Championship year but any time I saw him last year he seemed to be nervous on the ball , surely not a good thing for a Centre Half . |
| 23 | It seemed to be implicit in the speech by the Leader of the Opposition yesterday that the federal vocation is no obstacle to him . |
| 24 | Most of the enemy still seemed to be asleep as the avalanche of horses and riders bore down upon them in pounding fury . |
| 25 | She was sitting beside her father who seemed to be asleep on his back in the grass . |
| 26 | Our results with western blotting contrast with those of Klein et al who identified a 65 kDa band which seemed to be specific for PSC . |
| 27 | Other guidelines were rather less stringently imposed so that , for example , team members would sometimes " turn a blind eye " on detail in spending plans if the general thrust of the proposal seemed to be appropriate for the school concerned . |
| 28 | But no such relationship was necessarily apparent in 1945 , with The Economist in London indignantly protesting on 8 December 1945 that the communists seemed to be correct in their claim that the American object was to ruin Britain . |
| 29 | The very air seemed to be alive with his anger . |
| 30 | Patients attending hospital clinics had worse glycaemic control , but this seemed to be attributable to the case mix and practice characteristics . |