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 . |