Example sentences of "[num] it seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 190s it seemed intolerable to the then bishop of Rome , Victor , that the churches in Asia Minor celebrated Easter on a different date , and to the distress of many he threatened excommunication on those who did not adopt the Roman date . |
| 2 | For an exciting moment at the beginning of 1918 it seemed possible that the pacifists might push Labour into collision with a Government still adamant that nothing short of overwhelming military victory could provide the basis for peace . |
| 3 | Thus although there was no significant relationship between normality and P(A) from Study 3 it seems advisable to see whether this is also the case using normality ratings taken from the Groeger and Chapman study . |
| 4 | On 31 August 1948 it seemed certain that another glorious Hollywood career was about to be poured down the drain when Robert Mitchum was arrested for smoking marijuana . |
| 5 | From Deuteronomy 1:19–25 it seems plain that Moses intended to go straight on into the promised land at this point ; it was the people 's suggestion that they should send spies ahead . |
| 6 | In 771 it seemed likely that Desiderius would join forces with Carloman against Charles , but in December of that year , the younger Frankish king died . |
| 7 | For non-Nazi , ‘ national-conservative ’ power-élites in the economy and in the army , Hitler 's ‘ charisma ’ had in itself never been a decisive factor , even though by the early 1930s it seems clear that substantial sectors of especially the ‘ intellectual élite ’ had succumbed in varying degrees to the Führer cult . |
| 8 | For 20 years after World War Two it seemed possible that the dog eat dog ‘ survival of the fittest ’ brand of free market capitalism had been supplanted by a social contract between employers and workers , with only occasional mediation by the state . |
| 9 | In July 1939 it seemed clear to me that war was inevitable . |
| 10 | In the summer and autumn of 1989 it seemed possible that this might no longer be true . |
| 11 | In 1931 it seemed unlikely that the Republic and the Basque Nationalists would ever be allies . |
| 12 | Fourth , structure ( 47 ) for the clausal adjective follows just the same general intensional pattern as will be needed for sentences which contain not an adjective but a ( non-finite ) verb phrase : ( 61 ) Leonard proved this theorem to rival the Nomination theorem in its scope Atkins will guarantee her picture to have fetched $100,000 at its last sale 4.7 It seems permissible to agree , in this case , that we do have good grounds for accepting that the adjectives are understood as part of a structure felt to be a clause , of which the preceding noun phrase would be the subject . |
| 13 | But for a time in 1990 it seemed likely to split apart . |
| 14 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 15 | By the standards of 1961-or , perhaps , today — it was radical stuff , by the style of 1967 it seemed passé . |
| 16 | In view of waning Axis fortunes in the summer of 1944 it seemed curious that when the Spanish Foreign Minister , Jordana , died in August he was replaced by Spain 's ambassador to occupied France , José Felix Lequerica Erquiza , a man of known Axis sympathies . |