Example sentences of "[pron] it seem [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated .
2 This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages .
3 Burnett 's favourite preparation for the treatment of uterine tumours was Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum so not having the LMI gave her the 6C potency in a 10ml dropper and within 3 days she was relieved of the discomfort on walking and standing which it seems reasonable to assume is due to the fibroid shrinking .
4 Such language seems vacuous to some , but if we are to comprehend the nature of the arts in particular , being is a concept which it seems difficult to do without .
5 There are of course references to work in progress — a letter from Matisse on the installation of ‘ La Danse ’ at the Barnes Foundation : ‘ the panel is installed and suits the architecture , from which it seems inseparable ’ , as well as a melancholy reflection on the nature of drawing by Matisse from 1940 : ‘ A colorist 's drawing is not a painting .
6 She was also dimly aware that they had passed the point of no return — now she had allowed him inside her it seemed wrong to yell at him to stop or begin fighting him .
7 It is is n't it ? it seems ironic that for me it seemed such a big thing , in case you still need it clear I was William 's nephew .
8 Human life is a series of lessons and opportunities for development and evolvement and to me it seems logical to assume that one spirit continues its learning process throughout many lifetimes .
9 To me it seems that beauty , and indeed the qualities and forms which give rise to beauty , only exist for a consciousness .
10 To me it seems inconceivable that a single human life on earth is the beginning and end of it all .
11 To many of them it seemed abhorrent to suggest that the Mosaic law was other than final .
12 As I thought about it it seemed extraordinary that any man should endure such behaviour and still wish to marry the object of his desire .
13 and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately .
14 So if you , I mean , to go back to our initial proposition , whilst on the face of it it seems curious that in the area in south China where one would expect land reform to be easiest to achieve the communists adopt a much more moderate , slower , cautious policy but for a whole variety of reasons we , we 're , we 're tending towards the view that that would be the most appropriate anyway .
15 Loading it after all those years was a strange experience ; if anything it seems better than I 'd remembered it .
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