Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 2 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 3 | The snail 's pace of the boat made it seem like an endless expedition into the interior . |
| 4 | Luckily she had proof , because she did n't think it was going to take long before he took steps to make it seem as if she 'd made a criminally stupid error . |
| 5 | It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge . |
| 6 | The living-room was no more than fifteen feet square ; but pale colours and a huge window made it seem larger . |
| 7 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 8 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 9 | Perhaps it would be truer to say that other things that I was doing made it seem less important . |
| 10 | If that sounds like standard talk , Back To The Planet make it seem heartfelt . |
| 11 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 12 | Supply problems during the war made it seem madness to postpone further the steps necessary to improve communications and construct strategic railways . |
| 13 | The severe straits in which the Treasury found itself after the Crimean War made it seem quite impractical to seek a solution which involved increasing the duties of officialdom . |
| 14 | To neither Pound nor Yeats did it seem that Virgil had much or anything to say about this matter which so preoccupied them . |
| 15 | The author makes it seem as if in this euphemistic world , tradesmen , dealers — men of the flesh — have refined themselves out of existence , and have imparted their qualities to the shop itself , its furniture and fittings , in a general ambience of discretion . |
| 16 | Its brightly coloured bill and large head make it seem a bit top heavy and the small black tail looks out of place in comparison to the bulky body . |
| 17 | But on the contrary Willie made it seem a prop of the work , like ripe thighs in a chorus girl or the swivel eye of Ben Turpin . |
| 18 | The Greeks claim that their black economy is bigger than any other Community country 's , and so in absolute terms they are not quite as badly off as the published statistics make it seem . |
| 19 | That it was at the seaside made it seem all the worse . |
| 20 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 21 | The repetitive , uniform appearance of the soldier-like trees made it seem as if the car was scarcely moving , and their silent , gloomy shade gradually eased the tension created inside the Citron by the earlier near-accident . |
| 22 | His example makes it seem that the circle is not simply a detachable result of , or something which can be considered in isolation from , certain motions , but rather something whose very nature and properties are essentially tied up with its method of production . |
| 23 | This example makes it seem that the consumer price is raised by the full amount of the tax . |
| 24 | His disgruntled voice made it seem as though the precautions of the drug smugglers formed a personal affront to his patriotism . |
| 25 | The advantages and privileges attaching to class , race and gender make it seem quite " natural " that this should be so . |
| 26 | Constance made it seem so unimportant . |
| 27 | It was incredibly quiet , with distant traffic noise making it seem even quieter . |
| 28 | In reply , Robert Dahl had no difficulty making it seem that Walker was pinning arguments to him and to others in an arbitrary manner , but in the process some of Walker 's stronger points were diminished — in particular the argument that ‘ political scientists … have overlooked the importance of broadly-based social movements , arising from the public at large , as powerful agents of innovation and change ’ . |
| 29 | By the early 1970s , however , the situation looked more favourable ; the reorganization of teacher education following the 1972 White Paper and the run-down of initial teacher training made it seem feasible to redeploy resources to raise the quality of the teaching force in further education . |
| 30 | Clever lighting made it seem airy even though there was little light from the street . |