Example sentences of "it seems [adv] [adj] to say " in BNC.

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1 It seems also fair to say , that schemes which focus on penetration are more satisfactory than the Canadian arrangement .
2 It seems almost needless to say nowadays that exposition repeats are faithfully observed .
3 ( That is why it seems more reasonable to say ‘ I went to work in my pyjamas ’ than ‘ I went to work in my clothes ’ . )
4 Butler sometimes talks of a passion as directed at one 's ‘ having ’ its object , but it seems more satisfactory to say that particular passions are directed at occurrences , and that the basic one can not be directed ; t the occurrence of pleasure for oneself since this always stems from having something occur one wished to do so .
5 If the word Gruyère on the packet can induce people to buy the product in question ( I have tasted it ; and it seems only fair to say that of its kind it is of a matchless ignobility ) then it becomes clear that it is a too innocent belief in authenticity and the efficacy of the ancient formula which has made us such easy victims of the purveyors of the farmyard-fresh Surrey chicken from the battery house , the mountain-brook trout from the breeding tank , via the deep-freeze , the hedgerow-ripened blackberry pie-filling out of the cardboard box .
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