Example sentences of "[adv] seem the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It suddenly seemed the best solution . |
| 2 | It perhaps seems the easiest problem to tackle if the viewer also is located somewhere near the top ( e.g. a foreign advisor , international academic , or senior bureaucrat or politician in the country involved ) . |
| 3 | Maybe it just seemed the right time , and the right place … ’ |
| 4 | Between the ages of 33 and 33–½ my mind changed , I think due to mere terror , or the outrageous ageing process , or gross deliberate indulgence , or love and emotion , or noticing that all around me friends and enemies were having children and were tons happier than I ever thought possible , or all of a sweet serious sudden it just seemed the only thing to do . |
| 5 | This may not seem the best way to promote democracy or the unity of India . |
| 6 | The Warehousemen 's and Cutter 's Union might not seem the obvious place for compositors — even women — to find a welcome . |
| 7 | At home , whenever I visited , he always seemed the same docile , attractive child sitting silently watching TV in the impeccably tidy and attractive furnished living room of the very small , terraced house . |
| 8 | For this exuberant individualist revelled in the goal-scoring limelight and hardly seemed the right choice for a midfield link man , laying on scoring chances for others . |
| 9 | However much I might want to keep tabs on him , bumping into him several times a day in the corridor hardly seemed the best route to anonymity . |
| 10 | Basing the deprivation payments on the Jarman index still seems the best option , although it is time the Department of Health supported research into its validation . |
| 11 | Mikhail Gorbachev 's Soviet Union had once seemed the enlightened exception , but now only proves the bloody rule . |
| 12 | One critic thought it ironic that this building ‘ of which the aim was so obviously beauty , should have achieved so startling an ugliness ’ , but after more than a century Swanage would hardly seem the same place without it . |
| 13 | It also seemed the kindest course of action , in view of your extreme fatigue . |
| 14 | He had not been able to in Edinburgh , but now seemed the ideal time . |
| 15 | With his tall well-built frame , his broad and rather florid features , his open honest gaze , his country yeoman 's tweeds , Gimson often seemed the rural Englishman personified . |
| 16 | For such clients raising a second mortgage to pay off the credit card debt often seems the only answer . |
| 17 | For such clients raising a second mortgage to pay off the credit card debt often seems the only answer . |
| 18 | To British universities creating , or contemplating , science parks , it might well seem the ultimate target at which to aim . |
| 19 | ‘ At first I was dazzled , and covered my eyes , and there did n't seem the smallest change ; the roar of the Strand and the roar of the reef were like the same : hark to it now , and you can near the cabs and buses rolling and the streets resound . ’ |
| 20 | There are so many versions of it already , and now does n't seem the right time to do it — I think I would rather wait until I was more established , and have something different to say about it . ’ |
| 21 | It does n't seem the slightest use having leadership if you 're leading in the wrong direction . |
| 22 | Shostakovich himself declared that he wanted to write a ‘ happy ’ Symphony , but somehow he does not quite seem the natural choice for such a thing . |
| 23 | She could n't imagine it , Laura had never seemed the sizzling type . |