Example sentences of "it seem [adv] [adj] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now that reason was gone , and the memory that remained of it seemed rather mean and cheap . |
| 2 | But then it seemed somehow natural and inevitable . |
| 3 | It seemed pretty arty but some scenes stick in the memory . |
| 4 | If Ingard had bought a pup , it seemed wholly improbable that any other shrewd financier would oblige by buying it from him . |
| 5 | The importance of Irwin 's triumph was that it seemed both classical and prototypical — an exemplification of triumphs past and a portent of triumphs to come . |
| 6 | Although on every side people tried to raise the old Watergate question , ‘ What did the President know and when did he know it ? ’ , it seemed curiously flabby and unsatisfactory ; as Elizabeth Drew wrote in the New Yorker , ‘ When one talks about what Reagan ‘ knew ’ , one could be dealing in metaphysics . ’ |
| 7 | It seemed absolutely logical that that ‘ something ’ should be her new career , but the schools had a different idea . |
| 8 | When claims were originally made concerning a cluster at Seascale it seemed quite possible that this was the explanation . |
| 9 | Looking at him , it seemed almost impossible that this scrawny , dark-haired creature was the accomplished scientist described in the personnel file , yet it was so . |
| 10 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 11 | Perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die . |
| 12 | It seemed so feeble and spindly floating there next to the toilet paper in the lavatory bowl . |
| 13 | It seemed so unreal and remote and fantastic and so totally away from this earth . |
| 14 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 15 | None of it seemed remotely realistic or important any longer . |
| 16 | Leelo Ross , a large woman who claims Lancastrian origins ( although it seemed highly unlikely that black pudding could be blamed on her proportions ) gave the audience an insight into among other things the ‘ Modern Jewish Woman ’ including driving Jewish style ; and the laconic Dembina delved deep to prove that even the most serious of subjects could be a source of humour . |
| 17 | Even with rejuvenations it seemed highly unlikely that any of those present could possibly live long enough to experience — to enjoy seemed totally the wrong word — the fruits of the hydra enterprise . |
| 18 | Grandmothers were an integral part of life and so , when the mass emigrations began , it seemed perfectly right and natural for them to take over the running of the families left behind . |
| 19 | It seemed very strange and silent , but she did not feel lonely at all . |
| 20 | IT SEEMED VERY UNFAIR that poor Tristan Garel-Jones should be brought to book for referring to the French as ‘ frogs ’ . |
| 21 | It seems reasonably certain that different human brains are not anatomically identical , as different Aplysia brains are , although there are striking similarities in the kinds of neurones present in particular regions of the brain , and in their connections . |
| 22 | It seems just possible that this reversal of hand causes sufficient unwinding of the super helix into which the DNA is wound to prevent the gene being transcribed . |
| 23 | It seems not unlikely that human beings — and other living organisms — are surrounded by electromagnetic fields that could be picked up by cameras , assuming the circumstances were favourable . |
| 24 | Clearly , some re-thinking will be necessary but it seems both inevitable and desirable that there should be some loosening of the ties between the CNAA and the institutions whose courses it validates . |
| 25 | It seems pretty convincing that nice guys do well in this game . |
| 26 | The official integrated magnitude is 8 , but to me it seems slightly brighter than this , and giving definite magnitude values for diffuse objects is always a problem . |
| 27 | For a number of reasons , therefore , it seems rather over-simplistic and legalistic merely to state baldly that , whatever may be the position on the illegality of use of nuclear weapons , their possession as such is not illegal ( Brownlie , 1984 ) . |
| 28 | It seems rather more than fortuitous that Franco should have chosen this spot , for it was only 10 kilometres from the imposing palace , monastery and royal pantheon of El Escorial , built by Philip II in the sixteenth century . |
| 29 | Problem 2 It seems rather obvious that any pair a , b of integers ( not both zero ) must possess a unique positive gcd . |
| 30 | It seems patently clear that disruptive pupils need more , not less , interaction with their peers and more , not less , involvement in the whole life of the school . |