Example sentences of "seemed [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appreciate the arguments that go on nowadays , but let us not forget that the old crossings were not suitable for the disabled , which is why , in the case to which I am referring , it seemed unnecessary for the authority to insist on a ramp being built . |
| 2 | Nigel seemed willing on the surface to receive this . |
| 3 | It seemed impossible to reconcile the ideal of the simple monastic life with a great religious order , just as it seemed impossible for the papacy to exercise leadership without becoming an autocratic bureaucracy . |
| 4 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 5 | When the Drama sub-committees of the Schools Council English Panel were presented with a proposition from Lynn McGregor , a London teacher with a strong interest in the sociology of education and her own research into Drama teaching on its way ( 1976 ) , to launch a full-scale research project , the climate seemed ripe for the subcommittee to make a recommendation . |