Example sentences of "seemed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It emphasises that she is not the awful old termagant she has so far seemed to be . |
| 2 | General Holomisa , the first black officer to graduate from the South African army 's War College , must have seemed to be the perfect instrument , or stooge , of such a policy . |
| 3 | As first to go in the nine-horse jump-off , Halliday had seemed to be handicapped by the draw . |
| 4 | Every fish he got seemed to be a good 'un . |
| 5 | For the time being , Baggio seems to be more in opposition to Donadoni than to Giannini , since the last mentioned has always seemed to be a favourite son of Vicini , one of that select group of players who matriculated along with the manager from the Italian under-21 side to the senior team . |
| 6 | At the start of the year , it had seemed to be regaining influence . |
| 7 | He had seemed to be sleeping , yet even in sleep his closed eyelids quivered and his tiny fists were half-clenched . |
| 8 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 9 | She had had what seemed to be flu , but it had left her breathless , he said . |
| 10 | When everything had seemed to be sorting itself out , when the way ahead seemed , for the first time in ages , to be solid under her feet , Marie felt the path crumbling away in front of her . |
| 11 | A higher proportion of the CSW team 's notional ‘ elderly ’ time was devoted to work with people not yet clients , or ‘ not exactly ’ clients ( whether they were regarded as open cases or not seemed to be a matter of chance ) . |
| 12 | The magistrates heard that he had seemed to be drunk when the police stopped him . |
| 13 | There had never seemed to be a particularly harmonious relationship between Kalchu and the bulls . |
| 14 | He was vaguely surprised that what sense of loss he did have seemed to be connected in some way with Cyprus . |
| 15 | Every villager who had a mule seemed to be making his way that day to the beach north of Famagusta , by Salamis . |
| 16 | When he found out , he contacted the Diocese of London 's lawyers , who helped to prepare the paperwork : getting a licence seemed to be just a formality — in modern times it was practically unheard-of for a faculty to be refused . |
| 17 | For a while now the man they call the greatest living actor has seemed to be coasting . |
| 18 | But Wordsworth only says ‘ seemed to be a kind of ’ ( lines 11 , 12 ) — not , incidentally , an example of that precise use of language which one is taught to admire . |
| 19 | We were all highly individualistic — in fact , what we had in common seemed to be a reputation for rebellion and trouble-making — but we shared a way into adult life , influencing each other and creating a collective strength . |
| 20 | The subject had seemed to be taboo ; and he himself had in a way pressed her down into his mind because thoughts of her conjured up a feeling tinged with regret and shame , centred round a scene in the bedroom and the rage of his mother . |
| 21 | The night had turned rough and the rattle from the windows had seemed to be emphasised by the silence during supper . |
| 22 | He had seemed to be such a nothing , meek and mild in his black suit and wide-brimmed hat , calm behind his mirrorshades , surrounded by his quivering flock . |
| 23 | Many teachers , I have found , can remember from their own schooldays the shock and guilt they felt when a teacher finally broke down in the face of what , to the class , had seemed to be ‘ just having a bit of fun ’ . |
| 24 | She had n't told Frederick , there just had n't seemed to be the right time . |
| 25 | Nationalism had been primarily supported by liberals , because the emergence of self-governing nations had seemed to be a final step towards the effective protection of individual rights . |
| 26 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 27 | This had initially seemed to be an insuperable problem until someone said that his face might not be familiar but they certainly knew his car . |
| 28 | Originally , the abridged talk in Davis 's recording had seemed to be a sensible compromise , yet looking back I can see that it had something to do with the partial dissatisfaction expressed in my review of the reissue : ‘ the total effect is more of a divertissement than of opéra-comique ’ . |
| 29 | The whole tenor of such a Christology would be other than what has often been the case in western theology , whereby Christ has been conceived as male ( and white ! ) so that women ( and earlier Blacks ) have seemed to be somehow less like Christ . |
| 30 | To prevent failures of this order , even if success was not absolutely assured , might , other things being equal , have seemed to be within the scope of US policy at the time . |