Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] seems [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was certainly living on Iona on the eve of Ecgfrith 's final campaign , and there may well have been a delay of a month or so before he became king , but to suppose a delay of seven months or more seems unwarranted . |
| 2 | Lineker 's double at Meadow Lane brought Spurs one of the two victories they feel they need to avoid the relegation fate that now seems inevitable for Notts County . |
| 3 | Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place , but reluctantly and more gradually than now seems desirable . |
| 4 | We must not disable or marginalise them in a society that increasingly seems interested only in the successful . |
| 5 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 6 | And that too seems related to the solidarities of kinship and to the training in respect which comes with belonging to a lineage : in a sense , both cadres and ordinary Libyans seemed to share the assumption that loyalties of descent and domesticity were more important than differences of opinion . |
| 7 | The dual-density Skywalk sole has an ingenious two-way pattern , and adhesion both uphill and down seems good . |
| 8 | Ma tries her hardest to divide herself fairly between my own and Pa 's needs , but sometimes she must find it difficult , and it hurts her that , as yet , she can only be with us for these brief visits , and always seems tired . |
| 9 | However , Sun has softened its attitude towards DCE of late , and now seems certain to offer the OSF solution itself at some point in the future . |
| 10 | Kirton spent a year as an All Black selector when Hart was out of favour and now seems embroiled in a television commentary career which largely involves tearing strips from the referee and running a one-man coaching clinic at the same time . |
| 11 | But whether our pebbles come all the way from Brittany ( as still seems possible ) or from hidden or eroded local sources is almost irrelevant . |
| 12 | If , as now seems certain , that is not possible , then Flushing Meadow , where every regular tennis journalist has his own horror story to tell about the failures of the elevators which carry them to the Press Box in the sky , will remain ‘ the place we love to hate ’ . |
| 13 | The point is that birds themselves are warm-blooded , like mammals , and if birds and dinosaurs are as closely related as now seems likely , then it obviously increases the likelihood that the dinosaurs themselves may have been warm-blooded . |
| 14 | ‘ What is most depressing is that the Balkan conflict may be a harbinger of what is to come , if , as now seems likely , human rights can be violated with impunity . |
| 15 | Finally , it is worth bearing in mind that if , as now seems likely , the process of cephalization occurred independently in several arthropodan lineages ( see p.5 ) , interpretations of the head which rely on comparisons between the insects and other arthropod groups no longer have the validity ascribed to them in the past . |