Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Teessiders seemed to sense that the Rokermen were starting to wilt and in the 62nd minute it looked as though Middlesbrough had finally found a way through . |
| 2 | The American silver sales at Christie 's , on 22 January , and at Sotheby 's on 28 January , seemed to confirm that the last area of the market to give way in the recession was the first to rebound . |
| 3 | The house was ablaze with lights , and the sound of music coming from inside seemed to promise that the party would not be as dull as Sophie feared . |
| 4 | The village seemed to shimmer as the heat made everything look as though it was under water . |
| 5 | It scarcely seemed to matter while the deals came rolling in . |
| 6 | Razak seemed to accept that the ZOPFAN and the Soviet proposals supplemented each other to some extent . |
| 7 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 8 | Christopher also seemed to indicate that the United States and its allies were considering a programme to provide Russia a kind of social safety net as it moves to free markets . |
| 9 | Kodiak barked a farewell , the moose antlers seemed to wave and the ripples on Lough Corrib frowned at me reproachfully . |
| 10 | I think that most of us recall the way in which the Attorney-General seemed to expect that no comments would be thrown at him . |
| 11 | This may , of course , have been a retrospective opinion that was at least tinged with 25 years ' subsequent experience and challenged , both before and after , the worldwide definitions of the late 1940s which seemed to require that the Vietminh should have been put into either one of two boxes , nationalist or communist , but not both . |
| 12 | The Independent of Nov. 15 had meanwhile published details of internal UN documents which seemed to suggest that a UN official had handed over to the Moroccan government information supplied in confidence by the Polisario Front . |
| 13 | It seemed to suggest that the GLC and the LTE must try to break even , a course which was certainly feasible if fares were sufficiently increased and services sufficiently reduced , but which was politically as unacceptable to the government as it was anathema to the GLC . |
| 14 | In an earlier paper ( Huxley , 1991a ) I presented the evidence available at that time which seemed to suggest that the effectiveness of case management in various contexts depends upon narrowly defined groups , focused care and relevant outcome assessments . |
| 15 | Opposition Members seemed to suggest that the hold-up was resources , but there are other factors , not least the fact , that , if we needed primary legislation , it would come on stream in about 1993 , when the responsibility for assessment and the decision about what to pay passes to local authorities . |
| 16 | He seemed to suggest that the problems with the policy had largely been caused by the Government withdrawing funding from local government for domiciliary and other services , thus forcing people into residential care . |
| 17 | European Tour 's pace of play regulations but his reaction seemed to suggest that the punishment would n't have the desired effect . |
| 18 | " only result seemed to shew that the parents of Stockport families preferred a cheap commercial education to a more expensive higher intellectual one and that the latter was necessarily more costly and that the Grammar School fees could not possibly be reduced to the level of the Technical School fees , that School being subsidised by Excise Duties and Government Grants to the amount of double the fees received from Scholars . " |
| 19 | He concentrated on the women finishing and seemed to forget that the men 's race finished elsewhere . |
| 20 | People seemed to forget that the entire fourth zone was in a perpetual state of starvation anyway . ’ |
| 21 | Supporters of this argument seemed to believe that the paper could defy the laws of journalistic and financial gravity . |
| 22 | She seemed to believe that the truth was great and would prevail , so why waste time spinning a lot of fancy theories ? |
| 23 | The ILP leadership , particularly Maxton , seemed to believe that the Communists could be beaten with their own tactics . |
| 24 | No one seemed to appreciate that the ‘ body ’ they were discussing was actually the person I loved . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Khan , why — ’ Suddenly he seemed to realise that the cut on Burun 's arm had ceased to bleed . |
| 26 | Reginald Bray , who was associated with the settlement movement in Camberwell , even seemed to doubt whether the youths needed to sleep , describing in 1904 how they would stay out on the streets ‘ until it is dark , and often in summer until dawn begins to break … the street and not the house ought probably to be regarded as the home ’ . |
| 27 | The German Social Democratic leaders , Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel , were also in the first instance critical , since the Polish argument seemed to imply that the territorial expansionism of imperialism in general , and Prussia in particular , did not matter any longer beside the development of supranational class unity . |
| 28 | These seemed to imply that the products were officially ‘ approved ’ , yet many were high in sugar . |
| 29 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 30 | But things seemed to change as the story progressed . |