Example sentences of "seem as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TV playback showed that Southall had held the ball for 13 seconds , although it did not seem as long at the time . |
| 2 | Despite Berkeley 's claim that ‘ we do at all times and in all places perceive manifest tokens of the divinity ’ , the important place occupied by God in his philosophy will inevitably seem as far removed from immediate experience as the material world of seventeenth-century philosophy seemed to Berkeley . |
| 3 | She had not the least interest in the fortunes of Italy , did not care that once more liberty and unity were the watchwords , and it astonished her that Mrs Browning could seem as anxious about war as she did about her sister 's health . |
| 4 | Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us ? |
| 5 | Memories of her did n't seem as painful as he had imagined . |
| 6 | The child 's refusal to comply may not seem as bad as the child 's habit of answering back . |
| 7 | He did not know the people on it and they did not seem as keen to join as he had expected . |
| 8 | Whilst Necromunda could not conceivably have changed , it would nevertheless seem as alien as any of the worlds that they might visit in the interim . |
| 9 | Feats as daring as those shown on the frescoes and sealstones are certainly possible and they probably were really performed , but it seems likely that they were carefully choreographed and presented to make them seem as dangerous as possible . |
| 10 | Learn to master the simple move before attempting more complex ones , and remember that because of the viewing angle the pitch does n't seem as wide as it really is . |
| 11 | It did n't seem as heavy as injecting . |
| 12 | Then , I think with just being able to chase it and whatever , it did n't seem as heavy as injecting it . |
| 13 | He did n't seem as elated as he might by the idea . |
| 14 | Their different paths can seem as much the result of luck , accident or opportunity as any capacity to distinguish between right and wrong . |
| 15 | The treatment of the sky and of the areas between the various landscape objects , the boats , lighthouses and breakwaters , in terms of the same facets or pictorial units into which the objects themselves are dissolved , has the effect of making space seem as real , as material , one might almost say as ‘ pictorial ’ as the solid objects themselves . |
| 16 | I do n't find them any less delightful , but they do n't seem as interested in academic things . |
| 17 | If the triangle does not seem as efficient as professional planners would like , see if you can move the appliances or work surfaces to give a better arrangement . |
| 18 | It may not seem as hard nowadays , because people know that it 's easy to get out of . |
| 19 | If the process of learning to conquer the impulses to self-gratification seems too painful to be borne , the author reminds the sisters that ultimately a complaint will seem as misguided as that of a prisoner thrown a bag of money to buy his release who moans that the bag hit and bruised him . |
| 20 | Whatever the ultimate fate of the Text Encoding Initiative , it does seem as good a place to start as any in making our needs felt . |
| 21 | The explorers ' accounts of the unending forests of the nineteenth century will seem as fabulous as mediaeval bestiaries . |
| 22 | I watched him against Ipswich on the box , and he does not seem as commited as some of the other players . |
| 23 | Harrowing stuff with emotions , hormones and nerve ends aching , but for all the quality of the acting and the script , it does n't seem as moving as it ought to be but it is hard to define why not . |
| 24 | The fire was not lit and the room did n't seem as cheerful and welcoming as it had the night before ; they broke their fast quickly on warm oat cakes and mulled wine , saddled their horses and rode back along the track to the highway . |
| 25 | Erm so anyway the fact that it did happen obviously means that something 's wrong even though I 'll argue that it did n't seem as bad as he was presenting . |