Example sentences of "and [noun] that seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | the train had made its imperceptible departure and was rolling along again past the uninhabited infinity of rocks and lakes and conifers that seemed to march on to the end of the world . |
| 2 | All the time , we were making love as we wrote our poems , in a great wave of inspiration and tenderness that seemed as if it could never end . |
| 3 | The face was long and pale , with a shaggy beard and eyes that seemed to look out from deep hollows . |
| 4 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 5 | Even by the standards of Harry 's yard , Heraldic was no looker , a great , gangling colt with a head and neck that seemed to have been added to his body as an afterthought . |
| 6 | Clearly it had been taken several years earlier , but it showed , even then , the supercilious cast of a face which had looked into the camera with head held well back , and lips that seemed to smile with a curious arrogance above the Vandyke beard . |
| 7 | Very quietly he said with a pride and authority that seemed to surprise them , ‘ I am of Wrath and have much to learn . |
| 8 | In the context of these questions , what is it in the brief history of White Western feminist criticism and theory that seems at odds with what is going on in the rest of the world ? |
| 9 | Definitions of torsades de pointes and longQT interval syndromes Torsades de pointes is a ventricular tachycardia characterised by QRS complexes of progressively changing amplitude and contour that seem to revolve around the isoelectric line . |
| 10 | Yet still they work in improving the mood from where it is now and still there may be no perception that the depressed mood and damaging consequences of use could possibly be the responsibility of the very substances and processes that seem to be the only things that can make life better . |
| 11 | ( b ) those details and examples that seem most successfully to illustrate the main points . |
| 12 | I did notice , however , that some of the wild plants and flowers that seemed to do well on my pastures did n't grow in other people 's fields . |
| 13 | Photographs , ornaments jammed anyhow on to whatever might accommodate them ; furniture , chairs and tallboys that seemed to fight for space . |
| 14 | Individual signs and symptoms that seemed useful in the χ 2 analyses were evaluated for their independent ability to predict hypoxaemia with a multiple logistic regression technique . |
| 15 | Ross now admits that their conversations with the island 's inhabitants made them ‘ overconscious perhaps of island sloth and corruption , of the drug-running and fatalism that seemed the legacies of a colonial past ’ . |
| 16 | So amidst the doom and gloom that seems to cloud the the African horizon , we can see that aid does work and in the example I 've just given , that it works indeed for children . |
| 17 | In practice , since each site is unique , archaeologists use the mixture of large-scale area excavation and sections that seems most appropriate to the site . |
| 18 | She led the way down a short and curving hall into the lounge — a rugged expanse of blue and gold that seemed to glow in the light admitted by three high windows . |
| 19 | He sketches out a domed mountain with a pair of high corries and ledges that seem to form eyes and eyebrows , and a vertical crest of rock running down between them , passing a snowfield on either side … |
| 20 | In these cases , the self is , as it were , split against itself , subject to desires and impulses that seem ‘ out of character ’ . |
| 21 | And now , her face straight , her lips seeming to quiver , she went into the song ; and so beautiful was her rendering of it , so touching the cadences , so tender with longing the words , that she seemed transformed before their eyes : she was no longer Lemon , good for a joke or a bit of ribbing , for her voice cut through the façade of brashness , of insensitivity and coarseness that seems to become necessary to men in war . |
| 22 | They had some beliefs and practices that seemed to link with the early days of the Old Testament , possibly due to some earlier Christian influence , believed by some missionaries to trace back to Nestorian missionaries moving through parts of Burma into China . |