One discovery early in the inquiry seemed to undercut the foreign thesis.
The discovery seemed to sober and energize the group with a sense of purpose.
A few recent discoveries have seemed to come tantalizingly close to Jesus himself.
The situation did not change in the least, though a discovery I suddenly made seemed to complicate it very much.
In this case, discoveries seemed to add a new layer of confusion.
All her discoveries seemed to count for nothing if he didn't care.
Nor did that discovery seem in the least strange.
The discovery of the massacre seems to have been by chance.
This new discovery, amazing as it was, seemed in no way connected to the other.
The other new discovery seemed finally to extend the whale's evolutionary history across that transition.