Example sentences of "it [adv] seems a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just seems an awful lot more expensive . |
| 2 | Although most of the Reichmanns ' empire-building occurred in the 1980s , it already seems a far-away era when banks and their customers were willing to suspend disbelief and dare to be , well , if not great at least borrowed to the eyeballs . |
| 3 | It somehow seems a fitting partnership . |
| 4 | ‘ There are always so many firings in radio that it hardly seems a big deal any more . ’ |
| 5 | But it hardly seems a dramatic articulation of character . |
| 6 | In which case it also seems a small price to pay for the next generation of senior managers to be blooded . |
| 7 | It now seems a sad compromise , arrived at by friends who wanted to see him appropriately honoured , but it is one perhaps which he would have understood . |
| 8 | A few have become internationally known , but it often seems a hopeless task . |
| 9 | For example , when selecting a foster home , it often seems a good idea to social workers to choose parents with children of similar age to those being placed , but several research projects have shown that this greatly increases the risk of placement breakdown . |