Example sentences of "seem more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ISC is understood to have small contracts in each of these territories but further ‘ phantom ’ contracts are believed to have been invented to make the company seem more successful than it was . |
| 2 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 3 | Looked at from the West , Franois Mitterrand or perhaps Karl-Otto Pohl , president of the Bundesbank , might seem more appropriate technocratic candidates . |
| 4 | Sceptics may baulk at such an idea , but given the attested presence of such equally implausible-sounding objects as a block of portable eighteenth-century soup ( ex Captain Cook ) , Inuit seal-gut underwear , African cobweb hats and other equally exotic objects , the concept of dressed fleas may seem more acceptable . |
| 5 | If Scotland should one day become independent , with its own monarch , then union with Ulster might seem more acceptable to all . |
| 6 | Surface socialism may seem more acceptable , but old ideologies lurk close behind the cheerful smiles . |
| 7 | His public buildings — North Leith Church ( 1814 ) , the Merchant Maiden Hospital in Edinburgh and the Custom House , Greenock ( both 1816 ) , the Edinburgh Academy ( 1822 ) and John Watson 's Hospital ( not the National Gallery of Modern Art ) Edinburgh ( 1828 ) — may now seem more remarkable for their correctness of proportion and detail than for any great originality , the first having an Ilissus portico adapted from Smirke 's Armley Hall , Leeds , and the four last all being variations of the theme of Smirke 's Covent Garden . |
| 8 | Pavarotti , on compact disc by the fireside , can sometimes seem more attractive than Farnham Maltings or Tilford Church , but lacks the frisson of seeing a flautist trilling amongst the tombstones or drinking ones interval wine elbow to elbow with a charming soprano . |
| 9 | Q When you look at your tally do the tantrums seem more frequent ? |
| 10 | The official admitted that more prestigious types of education projects might seem more attractive than other , more mundane ones , but they have not yet had sufficient experience in ‘ selling ’ projects to be sure . |
| 11 | Rather than assuming that a few corrupt workers steal large amounts , it would seem more reasonable to contend that many , if not the majority , of employees regularly take small amounts . |
| 12 | At first the joys of freedom and release will seem more reliable and beneficial , but in ecstasy there is one of the great potentialities of the transcendent for one day we may reach a state of perpetual ecstasy . |
| 13 | It seemed crazy to let such a young couple get married , for Shanti was only seventeen and Chris eighteen , but it did seem more sensible for them to be unemployed , married and happy than unemployed , unmarried and unhappy ! |
| 14 | With less serious matters the reports of social occasions can seem more like fiction that fact . |
| 15 | Using an old Greek name for it somehow makes it seem more respectable . |
| 16 | Breeze laughed , for this petulant little outburst made him seem more human . |
| 17 | It would seem more likely to simply be an automatic adjustment according to their immediate sensory experience and instinctive intent . |
| 18 | If they are small it will seem more photographic . |
| 19 | It is unfortunately very easy sometimes to let the eyes wander — and the mind as well — if an elderly person is running the gamut of a whole list of troubles , some of which may seem more like minor irritations . |
| 20 | Mescaline and LSD make colours seem more intense and time much slower ; the reverberations are stronger and the conscious present lasts longer . |
| 21 | THE Palace 's attempts to make the Queen seem more accessible to her subjects are becoming increasingly obvious . |
| 22 | It would seem more useful to reserve that much over-used tag of ‘ middle-class ’ for those higher up the social and financial scale than Benjamin — those who lived in larger houses with servants , who sent their children to public schools and could afford a day at the races or a night at the opera , suitably dressed . |
| 23 | This programme will not be transmitted until 8.30am on Sunday , January 10 , 1993 , when the reflection on the Christmas and Epiphany messages , which the script highlights , will seem more appropriate than on a wet November evening . |
| 24 | Creating happy patterns , like rewarding ourselves , begins to make our lives seem more positive and , hopefully , enjoyable ! |
| 25 | There is another ( and not generally accepted ) way of looking at this situation which may seem more acceptable . |
| 26 | If they are small it will seem more photographic . |
| 27 | To whom does he seem more neutral , and why ? |
| 28 | This situation might seem more difficult in the case of physical activities such as walking : I walk , with or without conscious effort , it may be said , but have no access of any kind to the associated brain , nerve and muscle activities , even though we have perfectly good physiological evidence for the regular association of those activities with the act of walking . |
| 29 | This makes it seem more feminist than egalitarian feminist psychology , and much further away from the traditional discipline . |
| 30 | But the row does seem more damaging to the Socialists than the devaluation . |