Example sentences of "[adv] it seem [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only it seems a long way to go ! |
| 2 | I had always loved walking so it seemed the obvious thing to do . |
| 3 | Rachel was about to protest — this sounded like dangerous ground — but somehow it seemed the lesser of two evils and as she turned the key in the ignition she felt a flutter of excitement and she knew , deep down , that she wanted to go with him . |
| 4 | ‘ Now it seems an odd decision because the film was such a big success , but I did n't want to be under contract to anyone for any length of time with whom I did n't feel much in common . |
| 5 | Well it seems the obvious means of transport . |
| 6 | Anyway , when Alan suggested that he should set up in practice here it seemed a splendid idea . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes it seems the entire nation is falling apart ! |
| 8 | It is our feeling that the council needs to be encouraged to take that attitude because if we have a change of policy as the District Council are asking , so that the number of sites released from industrial use is compensated by new green field sites being allocated , then it seems a little bit like a blank cheque to us and we should like to see a firmer control on the amount of land that is lost to development and in seeing that firmer control we 'd like to put pressure on the District Council by not offering them compensation |
| 9 | As darkness fell there was hardly a soul about , but just before 9pm it seemed the whole village poured out into the street , and there appeared two men carrying shoulder-high the most grotesque straw figure of a man , its eyes glowing in the darkness from torch bulbs hidden in its head . |
| 10 | Yet it seemed an odd relationship . |
| 11 | French channels may buy BBC and Independent TV company programmes and in 1986 the Hersant Berlusconi ‘ le Cinq ’ imported programmes made for Berlusconi 's Italian channels , yet otherwise it seems the four major European countries — Britain , France , West Germany , Italy — buy relatively few programmes from one another : for one French-made ‘ Chateauvallon ’ , there are 10 Australian ‘ Neighbours ’ or 100 US ‘ Dallas ’ and ‘ Kojak ’ on UK television channels . |