I was part of many teams that didn't get there and the longer it went on the greater the burden seemed.

The burden of what she had to say seemed to be that Jonathan Strange was everything!

In 1957, the city's burden had seemed to ease when it stopped collecting commercial waste.

The burden of his ranting seemed to be that so much time had been wasted on the ground.

But the burden of confinement seemed less at night.

At that moment a heavy burden which had piled up on his shoulders unnoticed seemed to fall away.

For now, less than a week into the strike, their new burdens still seem like fun.

Now a great burden seemed to tumble from my shoulders.

"I'm still troubled that the burden seems squarely on the kids," she said.

Thus far the major burden of the evidence seems to be against the view that social class differences in women's domesticity exist.