Example sentences of "[that] it seem [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The green currents drifted densely round it , so that it seemed a floating shadow .
2 Folly had to admit that it seemed an efficient enough system .
3 Eventually the tears dried up , but still she did n't move , lying there listlessly , feeling so brittle that it seemed the smallest of movements would scatter her into a thousand pieces .
4 Film was nothing in itself but what had confirmed its worthlessness was that it seemed the exclusive property of a class of showmen who were direct descendants of the old fairground showmen .
5 It was so still in the room that it seemed the three had suspended their dealings by mutual consent in order to catch the barely audible undulations of a distant ambulance siren .
6 That up to the time in Edinburgh , the Monotype machines have been largely , if not chiefly , operated by women , and that women have proved themselves entirely competent to work these machines , so that it seems a great hardship that women should be debarred from working at them in future .
7 One of the attractions of swearing for a child is that it seems a grown-up thing to do .
8 The very pages of his own magazine express the discernibly patronizing indulgence that it seems the American expatriate community extended to him .
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