Example sentences of "seem [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that she seemed rarely to be in it , the house reflected her taste . |
| 2 | Even Mr Akers seemed slowly to be coming round to the sensible idea that IBM should be broken up . |
| 3 | It was extraordinary , she told herself , how this little snippet of a girl seemed suddenly to be taking charge of her problems , and with such authority , too . |
| 4 | The significance of the weakening of the royal family and the ranks of the nobility through death and illness in the 1360s , and especially in 1368 and 1369 , those two years when English fortunes seemed suddenly to be reversed , should not be underestimated . |
| 5 | She was waiting for him to kiss her , he realized , and it seemed suddenly to be the natural thing to do . |
| 6 | He felt irretrievably alone and the woman beside him seemed suddenly to be a total stranger . |
| 7 | A huge , suffocating cloud seemed suddenly to be hovering above Lindsey 's head . |
| 8 | He expected Charity to scoff at such weakness , but surprisingly , she seemed only to be concerned with how that could be arranged . |
| 9 | He seemed only to be able to breathe shallowly . |
| 10 | By February 1940 he had drafted two out of the five sections , and was describing the poem as a successor to " Burnt Norton " — he was still not at all sure of its worth , however , since he seemed only to be imitating himself . |
| 11 | ‘ Then I woke up one summer morning-it was still dark , the birds were just starting their dawn chorus , and on that particular day there seemed only to be crows — and I felt very cold . |
| 12 | There is no real reason to believe that the civil-military mission which the US sent to Vietnam would , in any event , have come to substantially different conclusions but the fact remains that their report was made under the impact of the Korean War and as one of its leaders said of the other his thoughts seemed largely to be with ‘ his ’ division in Korea . |
| 13 | If moral progress was not , as for Hobhouse , pre-ordained , it seemed nevertheless to be occurring . |
| 14 | By the beginning of the 19th century science seemed already to be ineluctably yoked with technology , and technology with industry ; and though industry could be equated with men of culture and vision ( such as Josiah Wedgwood and sons ) it is remembered in practice , by those who later ‘ read ’ the ‘ humanities ’ , through the contemporary and in alliterative terms more resonant response of William Blake . |
| 15 | Most of the shops seemed already to be closed and her heart sank as she identified the unlit frontage of number seventeen . |
| 16 | The quietness seemed somehow to be incredibly loud , perhaps because wherever else I have been I could at the very least , listening hard , pick out some distant sounds of life , or even the wind in the trees . |
| 17 | Miraculously , during the early months of 1939 , the much vaunted tripartite agreement between France , Great Britain and the USSR , the cornerstone of collective security and peace , seemed somehow to be within grasp . |
| 18 | When the Australians arrived in 1989 , he seemed scarcely to be considered for the leadership , and appeared to have few advocates beyond the purlieus of Chelmsford and Colchester . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Far removed from this Spartan scene reigned the Kaiser , in an environment that to some of his disquieted advisers seemed rapidly to be regaining the splendour of pre-war days in inverse proportion to the hardships what were mounting in the rest of the country . |
| 21 | He was equally critical of the watercolours of Morocco and Scandinavia : It was generally remarked that Minton seemed deliberately to be stripping his art of mannerism , bravura and gaiety . |
| 22 | Others seemed genuinely to be pleased with the way things were going , while in a third group discussion centred on how much more usefully the time could be spent with the National Childbirth Trust . |
| 23 | Susannah Creese 's Asparagus Triptych , which won the young artists ' award , was the best thing in the show , even if it seemed hardly to be a watercolour . |
| 24 | The result was that resources invested in education increased dramatically , even though society in general and the school leaver in particular seemed hardly to be affected . |
| 25 | Ianthe was reminded of her meeting with the nun in the Underground the day before and Sophia remarked that nowadays some of them seemed hardly to be cloistered at all . |
| 26 | It was , moreover , a hope which the French encouraged from time to time although what was achieved seemed always to be less than what was promised . |
| 27 | I seemed always to be letting him down one way or another . |
| 28 | She seemed always to be squinting into the sun , or shielding her face with her hand , or hidden by a straw hat or something . |
| 29 | The variable ( a ) ( see above ) illustrates this point ; the speech of a number of persons was transcribed in some phonetic detail before it became clear that tokens of the vowel in a certain range of environments were never front-raised , and seemed moreover to be implicationally ordered with respect to their tolerance of back-raising ( see J. Milroy 1981a for details ) . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the clinical outcome seemed also to be related to the length of prolonged voluntary anal contraction achieved by patients . |