Example sentences of "it [adv] seems [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he had the freedom to hang around with anyone , it only seems natural that somewhere along the line he was going to get mixed up with people who were bad news . |
| 2 | With hindsight it perhaps seems strange that one of the indisputably greatest figures in the whole of Western art devoted the better part of his life to sell-advancement , and to painting the King , his family , and their attendant dogs , dwarves and sycophants Certainly the irony of this , together with the fact that this inbred family of often considerable mental as well as physical fragility should have controlled the destiny of so vast an empire , is not lost on Gironella . |
| 3 | ‘ No , O K , it just seems strange — someone 's garden . ’ |
| 4 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 5 | Oh , no , oh , no , I 'm not suggesting you do , but it just seems unkind of erm , clobbering them sort of both ways . |
| 6 | It just seems lazy . |
| 7 | It is a time of abject misery , when it just seems impossible to face the consequences of the loss that has occurred . |
| 8 | ‘ It just seems such a senseless waste . |
| 9 | ‘ It just seems odd to do it where no one is likely to see it . |
| 10 | It just seems right to bring a hobby , my experience and a livelihood together and we are very set on giving it a go , ’ Mrs Rowan said . |
| 11 | Not that they did n't work ; it just seems that teaching machines have no charisma or charm . |
| 12 | Now that 's probably not really true — it just seems that way to him ! |
| 13 | It just seems vindictive . |
| 14 | do what , it just seems easier for you that 's all |
| 15 | But it , it just seems funny , you know ! |
| 16 | But to me it just seems wrong to have the government involved in any kind of censorship or questions of taste . |
| 17 | It just seems incredible that after a 90 nm flight with some 10 time checks , known and secret , plus 25 observation targets , one Pole had a total penalty score equivalent to a two second error . |
| 18 | " That 's handsome of you , but considering our relative workloads it scarcely seems fair , " I said . |
| 19 | It already seems obvious that Mr Kinnock will be the earliest beneficiary , and this for a simple reason . |
| 20 | It nevertheless seems likely , since increasing numbers of tablets make sense when interpreted as a form of Greek , that Michael Ventris was right . |
| 21 | It nevertheless seems clear that the brand of Whiggery we associate with the Walpolean ascendancy of the 1720s and 1730s was very different from that which had been predominant for much of the later-Stuart period . |
| 22 | It thus seems possible to conclude that no B II junctions play significant roles in the solution conformation of the CRE dodecamer . |
| 23 | It thus seems significant that there appears to have been a rumour that Edmund was in some way responsible for the death of Cnut 's father , after issuing a vain warning that tribute should not be levied from his church 's lands . |
| 24 | Though it is impossible to date the provisions with any confidence , in favour of dating them in the reign of Mehmed II is the fact that Sultan Murad III ( 982–1003/1574–95 ) , in a firman sent to his Grand Vezir in 985/1577 in connection with reform of the learned profession , speaks of " the ancient law ( kanun ) of Sultan Mehmed Gazi " : it thus seems likely that Mehmed II promulgated some legislation concerning the learned profession , if not these actual provisions . |
| 25 | It thus seems likely that the junctions which are recalled may be simply the large congested ones , ones which also happen to be risky . |
| 26 | Fighting manually is fun after you have mastered it but it gradually seems pointless the more you play . |
| 27 | Many of these are , and will be , disputed , but it still seems probable that such collisions must be considered as a regular feature of earth history . |
| 28 | Acknowledging the problems of information confidentiality and the need to retain machine-readable records for up to a hundred years before they can be publically released , it still seems feasible for the various interested parties to forge links in order to share expertise and avoid the needless duplication of effort . |
| 29 | Here , in the natural sciences , despite the complex patterns that exist at the research level , it still seems appropriate to use the broad categories identified by Comte and embodied in the nomenclature of undergraduate degrees — the physical , the chemical , the biological — while recognizing that there are gradations between these ( physical chemistry , biochemistry ) and foci and links within and across them ( geology , biophysics , physiology or ecology ) . |
| 30 | And yet it still seems questionable whether Scorsese 's work has the range and the depth which would properly carry him beyond celebrity to ‘ greatness ’ . |