Example sentences of "[noun] it seem [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emergency admissions develop a momentum of their own , not least because in some areas it seems the only way to get a place in a local authority residential home ( Sinclair , 1988b ) . |
| 2 | Commentators in the Western press observed that the elections were characterized by " widespread apathy " , and one ZANU-PF official reportedly conceded that " especially in the urban areas it seems the working class has lost faith in ZANU-PF to look after their interests " . |
| 3 | But since passion does not come in bottles it seems a vain hope . |
| 4 | With dolphins on the rampage it seems a good idea to spend as much time as possible out of the water . |
| 5 | Ineffectual or not against lingering gases it seemed a wise precaution , even if it was only psychological . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just that after we went to live in South Africa it seemed a sensible choice for a third language , as the only non-English-speaking countries among the front line states are Mozambique and Angola . ’ |
| 7 | Since our silver wedding anniversary was the following day it seemed an ideal way to celebrate , so my wife and I decided to go . |
| 8 | On the surface it seemed a reasonable explanation . |
| 9 | A big , glossy hardback with lavish colour pictures , it is handsome enough but now that so many general cookbooks include first-class vegetarian recipes it seems an expensive extra . |
| 10 | We had a date for this afternoon but when I heard about Francis it seemed the decent thing to postpone the arrangement . |
| 11 | Firstly , if the argument is that any of the suggested markets — be they for products , corporate control or managerial talent — at present actually operates to constrain corporate managers , this is not something which is empirically demonstrated , and given the present nature of these markets it seems an implausible claim . |
| 12 | But with toilets , a telephone and electricity it seemed the ideal place to settle down . |
| 13 | She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter . |
| 14 | the same time it seems an awful kind of dangerous way |