Example sentences of "it seems [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it seems a small number of former workers may still fight on in industrial tribunals . |
| 2 | ‘ It seems a long time since this morning . ’ |
| 3 | asserted that in the present time the defendant 's liability in Rylands v. Fletcher itself ‘ could simply have been placed on the defendant 's failure of duty to take reasonable care , ’ and it seems a logical inference from this and from the judgment as a whole that the Court of Appeal considered the rule to have no useful function in modern times . |
| 4 | It seems a reasonable rule of thumb that any genuine offers of help and support from people or organizations will be accompanied by a name and address , and a willingness to be checked out as to their motive in making contact . |
| 5 | It seems a strange edict for an empire so intent on spreading the culture of the vine , but it was one of economy and rationalisation , in an endeavour to effect a balance between the overproduction of wine and the shortage of basic food crops . |
| 6 | It seems a strange way of choosing officials . |
| 7 | It seems a strange adornment for a crutch , |
| 8 | ‘ It seems a suitable present for a respectable unmarried lady who might be visited by the clergy . ’ |
| 9 | It seems a good case of what Barthes calls the text working . |
| 10 | ‘ In our present , trigger-happy moods , it seems a poor selection of place … ’ |
| 11 | It seems a frequent theme in penal history that the two professions do not trust each other , at least as regards doing each other 's job . |
| 12 | One ca n't believe that players such as Colin Stephens , Aled Williams or Adrian Davies would not do a better job in the No10 jersey and it seems a far cry from the days when the Welsh stand off factory was in full production . |
| 13 | It seems a dangerous belief considering the numerous warnings in Scripture for Christians to avoid ‘ different gospels ’ and ‘ false prophets ’ and ‘ being unequally yoked with non-believers ’ ( Galatians 1:8 ; Acts 13:6 ; 2 Corinthians 6:14 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ However , it seems a difficult time for us to consider the situation with such an important match a day away . |
| 15 | It is our feeling that the council needs to be encouraged to take that attitude because if we have a change of policy as the District Council are asking , so that the number of sites released from industrial use is compensated by new green field sites being allocated , then it seems a little bit like a blank cheque to us and we should like to see a firmer control on the amount of land that is lost to development and in seeing that firmer control we 'd like to put pressure on the District Council by not offering them compensation |
| 16 | All in all , it seems a magisterial negligence towards a writer who must , one way and another , have paid a lot of her gas bills . |
| 17 | It seems the only way round my problem . |
| 18 | It seems the best way to be . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , it seems the loudest critics of English soccer are now not the Scots but the English themselves . |
| 20 | IT SEEMS the last Christmas of the decade will be more green than white . |
| 21 | Well it seems the obvious means of transport . |
| 22 | the same time it seems an awful kind of dangerous way |
| 23 | . Erm , it seems an awful lot of money , eighty thousand pounds , er erm I just wondered how much of that sort of money |
| 24 | Bonn is a handsome town but , far as it is from the historic centres of German power , it seems an odd choice for a capital , even allowing for the Allies ' post-war policy of de-centralisation . |
| 25 | It seems an odd ambition to her . |
| 26 | It seems an odd thing to be grateful for . |
| 27 | It seems an odd time to be holding a political meeting , and Neil may have to come straight from the Palace , but the organisers say that all the participants have pledged to attend . |
| 28 | If this is true , it seems an expensive way of satisfying one 's curiosity . |
| 29 | An assignment requires A and B to be parties to an agreement and A , without B's consent , to transfer rights to X. The Vienna Convention is silent on the assignment of treaty rights , but it seems an evident consequence of State sovereignty that where a treaty provides for an assignment it should be enforceable . |