31.   The police said that the building seemed furnished like an office.

32.   The snow sweeps down, making the buildings seem like liners at sea, muffling everything with silence.

33.   The very building seems to be under siege from below, as brackish water bubbles up through the foundation and concrete is riddled by ragged cracks.

34.   Upon first drive-by glance, the building seems less a building in the conventional sense and more an amorphous technicolor vision.

35.   We needed more space and this new building seemed perfect.

36.   Whole buildings seem to change by the hour.

37.   You entered at the bottom level and the whole building seemed to press down upon you.

38.   Despite its imposed incomplete state, the building seems complete in its quietness and contentedness.

39.   Kim Young-lim, a store owner on the second floor, said the building seemed to shake underneath her but did not collapse completely.

40.   Surrounding buildings seemed unaffected, she said.