Example sentences of "they seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patients had all been washed and set up in their chairs and most of them seemed to be almost asleep . |
| 2 | In these circumstances , a determined mother could be free to groom herself , hold office in this or that community activity , or find a job , in order to fulfil herself ; though none of them seemed to be able to explain why acting as a bank teller or the secretary of a charity , for example , was more fulfilling than looking after their own children . |
| 3 | At the same time they saw a causal link between the predicament of the peasants and their own frustrations ; the political , social , and cultural constrictions which impinged directly upon them seemed to be the product of a society based upon oppression of the masses . |
| 4 | As they watched , a tall tree in front of them seemed to be burning with a white flame . |
| 5 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |
| 6 | All of them seemed to be on rather intimate terms with the proprietress , who was a very handsome , dark-haired woman , tall and well-built , with penetrating eyes . |
| 7 | The space between them seemed to be almost solid , you could see it had edges . |
| 8 | Most of them seemed to be the kind that took the prepaid cards that he never had , but there were a couple of pay booths at the end of the row and he made for those . |
| 9 | All of them seemed to be toy shops . |
| 10 | Half the board raised their own flagons in answer — most of them seemed to be Hearthwares — and they answered him thunderously , Ratagan loudest of all . |
| 11 | Neither of them seemed to be emergencies , as the callers had n't asked for immediate aid . |
| 12 | Some of them seemed to be actually sobbing . |
| 13 | Most of them seemed to be going in search of tea and for a moment , she hesitated . |
| 14 | ‘ Kitty disappeared off the face of the earth and then without warning turned up in Whitechapel with a man in a motor car ; neither of them seemed to be hers but she looked very pleased with life . ’ |
| 15 | It feels to them that a major event has changed their lives and yet people around them seem to be wanting them to forget it and ‘ get on with things ’ as quickly as possible . |
| 16 | Graduates who attend them seem to be becoming increasingly fatalistic that they will go away empty-handed . |
| 17 | None of them seem to be finding it so terribly difficult to just sit on their brooms . |
| 18 | ‘ Three of them seem to be anonymous , sir , ’ Fox said . |
| 19 | ‘ Yeah , ’ he said after a while , still attacking the oncoming craft , ‘ and a lot of them seem to be politicians and presidents and things . ’ |
| 20 | A lot of them seem to be leaders of countries or religions or armies . |
| 21 | Although the intermediate class most of them seem to be teenagers and twenties . |
| 22 | well somebody else is coming , join onto us , but er learner as well , why most of them seem to be learners do n't they ? |
| 23 | What has failed in them is Eros ; wherever erotic stirring in them seems to be new , it is nothing of the sort but a reminiscence of a stir that once was . |
| 24 | Where , however , the entry of the goods was inevitable , not only is there no liability for trespass on the part of their owner , but the view that he can retake them seems to be right , even if there is no direct decision to that effect . |
| 25 | They seemed to be arguing . |
| 26 | They seemed to be breaking up , and to the west a different valley - the one we would descend into the next day — was filling with a luminous gold haze . |
| 27 | They seemed to be everywhere . |
| 28 | I had a look at the bagpipes before pulling the rucksack onto my back , they seemed to be all right — wonder when I 'll play them again ? |
| 29 | Both were subject to easily measured norms , timetables and co-ordinated planning : therefore of all systems they seemed to be the most suitable for the immediate application of Taylorism and what Lenin called ‘ the precision of clockwork ’ . |
| 30 | Pockets of resistance still remained in 1922 , in Tambov , Siberia , Georgia , and Central Asia : seemingly safe areas , like the Smolensk and Kursk gubernii , were not as stable as they seemed to be on the surface . |