Example sentences of "[vb mod] seem [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must seem dull from the outside . |
| 2 | One reason the idea might seem odd in the case of stones is that stones are not living material . |
| 3 | This might seem inconsistent with the fact that women were living longer , were it not that longer life brought no immediate improvement in their prospects ; it remained a man 's world . |
| 4 | As the property was purchased jointly for the husband and the wife , it would seem unreasonable for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title and investigation thereof . |
| 5 | The presence of vines is more difficult to explain as viticulture has yet to be proved positively in Roman Britain , although it would seem logical after the Edict of Probus . |
| 6 | It would seem strange for the lord to have pursued a policy of buying up freeholds while leaving undisturbed copyholders who for the most part were virtually owners too . |
| 7 | If the new husband 's financial status is not acceptable to the mortgagee , so that the mortgagee is only prepared to agree to a conveyance of the property to the wife and new husband if the husband remains liable under the original mortgage , then it would seem reasonable for the husband to comply only with the terms of the court order or matrimonial agreement ( to which of course the new husband is not a party ) and not to convey/transfer to the wife and the new husband . |
| 8 | It would seem reasonable for the seller to stipulate that he will not guarantee the goods ' suitability for that purpose . |
| 9 | This is sand-glass stuff and while each grain may seem small at the time there is an invincible logic to what happens in the end . |
| 10 | The payment of the deposit may seem simple to the conveyancer , but it regularly confuses the client . |
| 11 | The first choice — between tape , cassette or disc — may seem easy at the moment because videocassette is so clearly in the lead . |
| 12 | Given the apparent turbulence of much of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , with religious Reformations , agricultural riots and the Civil Wars that stability and prosperity may seem elusive to the historian but they were very apparent to many contemporaries , at least among the higher ranks . |
| 13 | To the casual or occasional visitor to High Rocks , the season ticket agreement may seem irrelevant at the moment — just something to please climbers living nearby who go there regularly . |
| 14 | This may seem inevitable as the percentage of people working in the UK in service employment rose from 49 per cent in 1963 to almost 64 per cent in 1983 . |
| 15 | Secondly , hemiplegic patients often have difficulties eating , chewing and swallowing , and this can seem repulsive to the carer . |