Example sentences of "seem [art] [adv] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 In a manifesto issued in August 1337 Edward accused Philip of aiding the Scots and committing acts of war in support of England 's enemies , and a pre-emptive strike against France seemed the most effective way of preventing the Franco-Scottish alliance from growing into an ever more serious threat to England .
2 It seemed a very odd way of getting better .
3 And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off .
4 The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill .
5 The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’
6 The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’
7 This seems the most appropriate way to use Bloom 's Taxonomy ( 1956 ) in clinical teaching .
8 Taking criminal motivations as ‘ given ’ seems a rather glib way of dealing with them .
9 That seems a strangely ill-prepared way to attend such a debate — without a copy of the Bill or of the Hansard of the Standing Committee , with Mr. Speaker 's selection of amendments or copies of those amendments .
10 This seems a more satisfactory way of looking at the possibility that a society may be an organic unity than Moore 's principles allow .
11 With the Enterprise alone likely to cost over $1 thousand million , its entry into mining seems a very long way off .
12 It seems a very clumsy way of , just thinking of terms of financial .
13 The wage differential ( ) has been treated as representing the effects of unionization , but this does not seem a particularly satisfactory way of investigating union behaviour .
14 And that might seem a rather odd way to actually spend some of your redundancy money , but perhaps this leads us on to another area influencing the demand , and that 's to do with , if you like , psychology .
15 Another way of doing this kind of analysis is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of a vowel plus a consonant ; this may seem a less obvious way of proceeding , but it was for many years the choice of most American phonologists .
16 Although this may seem a very tedious way to go about things , it is the only sure method of success .
17 We 've had ten meetings and only thirty cases , and that 'll be the three cases where each meeting spread over a five different locations , which er does n't seem a very good way to use our resources !
18 ‘ Does n't it seem an awfully long way away , now ? ’
19 CANBERRA may seem an awful long way from exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons over the European Monetary System .
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