Example sentences of "seem [prep] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Palmer made a hash of a perfectly weighted through pass from Dozzell two minutes from the end , that seemed to be that . |
| 2 | The likeliest explanation seemed to be that , in the autumn of 1986 , Control had indicated to the DEA that Coleman had worked for the DIA in the past but , as he was no longer active , the agency had no objection to his taking up a consultant 's job with Hurley on Cyprus . |
| 3 | Michael Banks actually seemed to be that man . |
| 4 | That seemed to be that then . |
| 5 | There seemed to be little hope for the future , just a mundane job and low pay and fewer prospects for meeting the opposite sex once university days were over . |
| 6 | Following this there was considerable despondency amongst the committee as there seemed to be little hope for the future . |
| 7 | Finally , as summarized in table 4 , there seemed to be little interest in some of the current general matters of concern in education . |
| 8 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 9 | On everything , house , garden , terrace , green slopes , water , old oaks , fern , moss , woods again , and far away across the openings in the prospect , to the distance lying wide before us with a purple bloom upon it , there seemed to be such undisturbed repose . |
| 10 | For other people at work they seemed to be such joyous occasions . |
| 11 | The important thing , though , was that they paid their admission fee before they became totally paralytic and abusive ; that seemed to be all that really mattered . |
| 12 | They seemed to be all sizes . |
| 13 | He was small for his age , dark , large-eyed — in fact he seemed to be all Diane and almost nothing of his father . |
| 14 | In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable . |
| 15 | The problem was that determination seemed to be all that she now had left , and it was n't a currency that was likely to get her any further . |
| 16 | It seemed to be all suckers and tentacles . |
| 17 | There seemed to be many of them . |
| 18 | Judged in terms of former occupations , there seemed to be much more variety within than between classes . |
| 19 | ‘ There never seemed to be any time , ’ she said defensively . |
| 20 | Coming on the heels of the Ashby Report , which had lacked conviction in Tutorials and had recommended that the reference to them in grant regulations be dropped , the Board 's decision seemed to be another blow to what had traditionally been regarded as the apex of WEA work . |
| 21 | There seemed to be another impasse . |
| 22 | The group then recalled their own experiences with children who refused to work and how often there seemed to be another child in the family who ‘ can not do anything wrong ’ . |
| 23 | It seemed to be another fit like the last one , only worse . |
| 24 | The robes were stained and torn , but there still seemed to be some blood on the bones . |
| 25 | There seemed to be some other words at the bottom of the landscape , but O could not make these out . |
| 26 | There seemed to be some kind of a row going on upstairs . |
| 27 | of for a long time ) and this was a puzzle still to be solved , but at least there seemed to be some evidence that fusion was happening , proving their original hypothesis . |
| 28 | In all four cases where there seemed to be some knowledge of the victim before the alleged offences were committed , the cases were contested by alleging the woman 's consent . |
| 29 | Well yes and no , erm , every body that seemed to get involved there seemed to be some strange thing missing |
| 30 | Whether it was the distance , whether the record , because it must have been a record , had been deliberately slowed — there seemed to be some tonal distortion as well — I could n't tell , but the song came with a dreamlike slowness and dimness , almost as if it was being sung out of the stars and had had to cross all that night and space to reach me . |