Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One local radio contractor said it seemed unreasonable that the Home Office should be deciding between two competing claims on the spectrum when it was responsible for running one of them . |
| 2 | The living-room was no more than fifteen feet square ; but pale colours and a huge window made it seem larger . |
| 3 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 4 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 5 | By the early 1970s , however , the situation looked more favourable ; the reorganization of teacher education following the 1972 White Paper and the run-down of initial teacher training made it seem feasible to redeploy resources to raise the quality of the teaching force in further education . |
| 6 | Clever lighting made it seem airy even though there was little light from the street . |
| 7 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
| 8 | European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future . |
| 9 | A student of mine in a Spenser class which read A Present View suggested it seemed peculiar to be reading a piece by an author commonly hailed as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance putting forward views which makes him a type of war criminal within a twentieth-century perspective . |