Example sentences of "they seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed to be arguing . |
| 2 | They seemed to be breaking up , and to the west a different valley - the one we would descend into the next day — was filling with a luminous gold haze . |
| 3 | They seemed to be everywhere . |
| 4 | I had a look at the bagpipes before pulling the rucksack onto my back , they seemed to be all right — wonder when I 'll play them again ? |
| 5 | Both were subject to easily measured norms , timetables and co-ordinated planning : therefore of all systems they seemed to be the most suitable for the immediate application of Taylorism and what Lenin called ‘ the precision of clockwork ’ . |
| 6 | Pockets of resistance still remained in 1922 , in Tambov , Siberia , Georgia , and Central Asia : seemingly safe areas , like the Smolensk and Kursk gubernii , were not as stable as they seemed to be on the surface . |
| 7 | ‘ They seemed to be enjoying themselves immensely , making a lot of noise , rushing dramatically up and down the stairs , spraying the fire-hoses everywhere , and throwing the occasional bottle or glass at the other side . ’ |
| 8 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
| 9 | When The Smiths first appeared they seemed to be a reaction against the opulence/corpulence of nouveau riche new pop . |
| 10 | They seemed to be everywhere . |
| 11 | The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember . |
| 12 | They seemed to be trying to outstare each other . |
| 13 | She would stay , here where things were what they seemed to be , where trees were trees , hens were hens . |
| 14 | Once they were revealed , it seemed extraordinary that either operation should have borne the stamp of the American government ; they seemed to be bad dreams . |
| 15 | They seemed to be teaching him how to do things he did n't want to do more than anything else . |
| 16 | In spite of their success they seemed to be vulnerable to extirpation in a way that some of the less imaginative molluscs , like the bivalves seemed to be immune . |
| 17 | They seemed to be a peace-offering from above , as if God were apologizing . |
| 18 | They seemed to be cutting off a great slice of the camp . |
| 19 | They seemed to be running against the tide of professionalism . |
| 20 | They seemed to be left by minute aircraft . |
| 21 | The wind was easterly so they would be returning over our heads onto the main runway , and as the aircraft started to come back they seemed to be only a few feet above us , touching down after they crossed the far hedge . |
| 22 | After the race they seemed to be coming up a little more , and by the time we arrived back in Britain I was covered in them . |
| 23 | Many were so hard that they seemed to be made of solid wood while others shattered like eggshells , but were virtually empty . |
| 24 | They seemed to be gleaming behind the glass . |
| 25 | Grant had watched them standing in front of the electronic display , puzzling at the excessive time they seemed to be wasting . |
| 26 | They seemed to be crawling in the tunnel for a lifetime before they found another grille . |
| 27 | Their eyes were fixed on each other in cold fury , their hands placed on the table , palms down , and they seemed to be waiting — waiting for |
| 28 | They seemed to be settling in well in the first two days . |
| 29 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 30 | But even they seemed to be going through the motions , quite without conviction . |