Example sentences of "it seemed [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 2 | There was a general election pending at this time and it seemed certain we should lose it . |
| 3 | It seemed certain it happened at the time of manufacture . |
| 4 | They 'd come here to learn , but it seemed all they would ever learn was how to alter that which they had no possibility of understanding into something so familiar there was no point in their understanding it . |
| 5 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 6 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 7 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 8 | Robert Dudley left with haste , realising that he had gone too far this time , and it seemed doubtful his beloved monarch would ever forgive him . |
| 9 | It seemed incredible I had n't thought of that before — normally I was constantly aware of his proximity through the thin dividing wall . |
| 10 | When he tried his hand at another murder and the proposed victim turned out to be a young Anglo-Prussian only just arrived in Vienna , it seemed likely you were the man . |