Example sentences of "seems far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sex-plumbing and sex-fun seems far , far removed from the complex business we now all say it is . |
| 2 | Although his brother later made the excuse that it was too hot that day , late November , it seems far more likely that he simply got drunk . |
| 3 | Although there is some truth in this relative deprivation argument , it is equally important to note that the pains of imprisonment are mitigated by pleasant recollections : to be doing ‘ a lot of bird ’ without having lived well seems far more futile and absurd that to be paying for the rich fruits that crime has already brought . |
| 4 | It seems far more reasonable to accept the great progress that Christian thinking has brought , while understanding the equally valid Christian teaching that man is a wretched sinner and needs to be changed . |
| 5 | As usually applied , however , game theory has an outstanding limitation ; it assumes that all the players see the same game , yet , in many real-world conflicts , this seems far from true . |
| 6 | But it seems far from unlikely that other explorers might have visited the Dogon in the intervening period , passing on the latest scientific information . |
| 7 | We have as yet no direct proof that the actin cable provides the driving force for epidermal wound closure in our system , but this interpretation seems far more plausible than alternatives such as pushing from the rear or hidden crawling movements of cells behind the wound front . |
| 8 | While Basquiat may have reached the Metropolitan and music television , the exhibition 's tour after the Whitney run seems far less promising . |
| 9 | While much economic theory ascribes the sustained economic growth of post-war decades to the liberalisation of trade and the lowering of tariff barriers through GATT negotiations , it seems far more likely that the real engine of growth has been credit-creation , begun by governments through the Marshall plan and other state-initiated measures but continued through the combined efforts at financial innovation of transnational corporations and banks in issuing tradeable commercial paper . |
| 10 | Slow and refined , the New England way of life seems far removed from the frenzied pace of Los Angeles or San Francisco , as the people cling proudly to their strong links with the past . |
| 11 | To have such a strong and lovable personality seems far more persistent and imperishable than anything physical — if you see what I mean . |
| 12 | It may be hard to tell " large " from " small " , or to bring classical and quantum objects into consistent association , but it seems far less perplexing to find a difference between the mental and the physical and so to attribute a special property to the interface of consciousness at which they meet each other . |
| 13 | The evidence , however , is slim , and the logical conclusion — the two-second or five-second commercial — seems far away ; while so-called ‘ subliminal ’ advertising , using flashes of picture or words lasting only fractions of a second , is not only totally unproven as a technique , but banned in most countries where advertising on film is available . |
| 14 | It seems far more important to me to provide an effective and clear demonstration of those virtues of the product that you are trying to put across than to lose the proposition in the attempt to set up a credible context for it . |
| 15 | But his new interest in women seems far too broad and anarchical ; it is n't specialized . |
| 16 | It seems far too vague to me does that |
| 17 | Certainly , the social psychoanalysis of the oral aspects of the cultural superego seems far easier than the corresponding attempts to analyse pre-Oedipal oral superego elements in the development of the child where the crucial phenomena have occurred long before the acquisition of language , and where analytic ‘ reconstructions ’ are more likely to reflect the theoretical expectations of the analyst than they do the reality . |
| 18 | When I think of him sighing in the lane on the other side of the Park he seems far too close to home , far too much a part of all the difficult things in life . |
| 19 | Cherry Tree Park , with its white-harled villas and tidy gardens , seems far removed from the inner-city horror and violence under discussion . |
| 20 | But the atmosphere in the Kashmir valley seems far too volatile for any talk of elections . |
| 21 | seems far more interesting than knowing that they 've rehearsed for hours on end . |