Example sentences of "[prep] it seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of it seems realistic and sensible : ‘ Do not threaten to call the police . |
| 2 | Haemoglobin is doing an important job in the blood , and its details really matter ; but several alternative variants of it seem capable of doing the job equally well . |
| 3 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 4 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 5 | The plants outside it seem unaffected . |
| 6 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 7 | So I had opened the shutters on what is called complementary medicine with a slightly heavy heart for it seemed such an indictment of our present specialized , technological society when all medicine must simply be ‘ healing . ’ |
| 8 | No no one no one said a word about it seemed keen or do too keen on the Robin Hood line of which there were plenty . |
| 9 | The Ml has carved a path to the hinterland , yet still the cluster of towns around it seem autonomous from the centre . |