Example sentences of "[subord] seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its strange , lowered vista , for instance ( which now reminds the adult more than anything else of George Herriman 's Krazy Kat , where buildings disappear and reappear from frame to frame " ) is an obvious representation of London in the late forties and fifties : all the houses had gaps in between , because of the bombs , and the sky came closer to the ground than seemed right . |
| 2 | One memory will certainly be of the running of far more steam trains than seemed possible in the seventies , not all of them successful … |
| 3 | Not only did the Tories win more votes than seemed possible when the election was announced , but they improved their position relative to Labour on 13 of the 14 issues that Gallup monitored during the campaign . |
| 4 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
| 5 | The house was big and old , with a lot more corridors and rooms and unexpected turns than seemed necessary , but she had done enough of these ‘ entertainments ’ to be familiar with the lower storeys . |
| 6 | Their hands touched more often than seemed necessary . |
| 7 | Almost every major work of scholarship written in the past six or seven years on recent British political history has taken a far more balanced view of him than seemed likely at the time of his death . |
| 8 | In fairness to Beeny he not done bad although seems susceptible to letting the ball rebound of him to opposition strikers but he 's better than big John . |
| 9 | Stevenson himself goes along with this view to a far greater extent than seems appropriate . |
| 10 | Peter Dennis attaches rather more weight than seems wise to the embittered and somewhat impressionistic recollections of General Christison , but his account of events is balanced and fair . |
| 11 | Unless wages rise more slowly or output picks up faster than seems likely , Germany faces higher inflation and a growing deficit in foreign trade . |
| 12 | ' It has more weight than seems natural . ’ |
| 13 | Social workers in the area teams visit the elderly to assess their needs and provide such services as seem appropriate and are available . |
| 14 | Otto struck me as looking so out of place as to seem absurd , standing at the cottage door trying to approve our living accommodation , but clearly regarding it as unpromising . |
| 15 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 16 | Charlotte lifted out a large bag of pale , soft leather , so limp as to seem empty , and lifted her eyebrows in surprise at the weight of the small , brown-paper-wrapped box that dragged down one corner of it . |
| 17 | She chose a slightly flared skirt of fawn flannel , plain white silk shirt with a demurely high neckline , a jacket in soft pastel-brown tweed with a standing collar , absolutely plain but very expensive Italian court shoes and a matching handbag that was small enough to be ladylike but not so small as to seem frivolous . |
| 18 | ‘ I started back as soon afterwards as seemed right . |
| 19 | Black brown , green and blue were used to accent the drawing with sharp outline as seemed necessary . |
| 20 | He was given a flexible timetable which , in terms of classes , could be built up as seemed appropriate . |
| 21 | Moreover if , as seemed likely , CO 2 was the dominant atmospheric constituent then the greenhouse effect of CO 2 could only maintain such temperatures if the column mass of atmospheric CO 2 was about 10 6 kg/m 2 . |
| 22 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 23 | If , as seemed likely , one cause of unemployment was an excess of savings over investment , the equalisation of decisions to save and decisions to invest could be brought about by Labour 's plans for progressive taxation which would redistribute income to the poorer sections of society . |
| 24 | If , as seems probable , most teachers will sort out their pupils into the high and the low fliers at a fairly early stage , and if there is a whole separate set of papers in some subjects for the high and the low , then the difference between the higher grades of GCSE and O levels will not turn out to be very great . |
| 25 | Those actions could hit Jansher hard if , as seems possible , the Malaysian Squash Rackets Association decides to send the world champion 's prize money to the ISPA to do with as it thinks fit . |
| 26 | Since Eleanor , at the age of thirty , had separated from a husband of her own age in order to marry a nineteen-year-old , Andrew 's audience can hardly have missed the irony , particularly if — as seems possible — the book was written at the French royal court . |
| 27 | The cure lies in identifying the disturbed relationship , making such reparation as seems appropriate , and so restoring peace and tranquillity . |
| 28 | can be accommodated by the Pearce-Hall equations if it is accepted ( as seems reasonable ) that the different event used as differed in qualities that determine the value of λ used in these equations . |
| 29 | If we assume , as seems reasonable , that the total salary bill declines with the grade in the organization , this implies that ; in turn this means that the average cost approaches as G tends to infinity . |
| 30 | I have since then stayed in as close touch as seems safe . |