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

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1 It seemed a very odd way of getting better .
2 And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off .
3 The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill .
4 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 . ’
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 Taking criminal motivations as ‘ given ’ seems a rather glib way of dealing with them .
7 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 .
8 This seems a more satisfactory way of looking at the possibility that a society may be an organic unity than Moore 's principles allow .
9 With the Enterprise alone likely to cost over $1 thousand million , its entry into mining seems a very long way off .
10 It seems a very clumsy way of , just thinking of terms of financial .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Although this may seem a very tedious way to go about things , it is the only sure method of success .
15 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 !
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