Example sentences of "it seem [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed familiar to Carrie . |
| 2 | It seemed strange to Maura to look up at someone . |
| 3 | It seemed strange without Sid next door , and the barrage seemed much worse than yesterday evening . |
| 4 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
| 5 | It seemed typical of Ianthe , the slightly school-mistressy touch of growing the bulb in water so that its white Medusa-like roots were visible . |
| 6 | It seemed typical of Wickrithe , to produce a fog on the only day this week it had n't rained . |
| 7 | The equal opportunity for social mobility was a commonplace in the public mind but pressure of numbers began to render that equality suspect , since it seemed unequal in fact . |
| 8 | It seemed incongruous to Dexter , inappropriate when he knew they had come to talk about violent death . |
| 9 | It seemed incongruous in relation to the events of the last week . |
| 10 | It seemed probable to Allen that there were still four verderers but that now they had between them only three horses . |
| 11 | It seemed superhuman at times . |
| 12 | It seemed early for Mum to be back but I did n't think anything of it . |
| 13 | His business contacts were being checked , but it seemed unlikely to Azadi that any of them would have been in a position to spirit the shipowner away at a moment 's notice . |
| 14 | With the threat of bombing it seemed sensible for Mrs Daly to go to stay with a widowed friend in Rainford , and she seemed to have settled there very happily . |
| 15 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 16 | Back in his own home , it seemed incredible to George that he had actually seen Tamar 's attacker at Thorsbury , and yet he was certain that the groom was the same man . |
| 17 | But now , in her present jittery , restless mood , it seemed fraught with danger . |
| 18 | It seemed quiet in school today , did n't seem so many children , is there ? |
| 19 | It seemed full of sunlight , and it had an air of peace , confidence and happiness . |
| 20 | Wearying though the journey had been at the time — even humiliating in respect of his being drawn in a litter — in retrospect it seemed full of excitement , a time when one knew not what would happen next or what lay around the next corner . |
| 21 | Remembering how General Steiner had met his end in the Gestapo cellars at Prinz Albrechtstrasse , it seemed likely to Schellenberg that Himmler might have other reasons . |
| 22 | ‘ 'Er ’ was apparently Rose 's ma , and it seemed likely from Rose 's hints and sniffs that all the children had different dads , which , looking at Ma Bailey , fat , defeated and unlovely , Sally-Anne found difficult to believe . |
| 23 | It seemed miraculous to Kit that the old woman did not die ; that she could haul herself back to life by miracles of her own devising , or by the medicine Ariel applied . |
| 24 | It seems best at present to leave Ophiolebes retecta in Ophiolebes until Ophiochondrus and its allies can be properly revised . |
| 25 | And turning away from calls to battle and the accompanying rise in blood pressure , it seems reasonable for teachers of literature to go on teaching what they have been trained to teach , and what they like , understand , and are familiar with , without also having to take on many varieties of history — intellectual , cultural , political , social , economic , artistic , and musical — not to mention sociology , the study of popular culture , including the merest graffito , and , inevitably , literary theory . |
| 26 | Conversely , a golfer occasionally has a phase when the hole really seems larger and it seems possible to hole almost every putt . |
| 27 | Nevertheless it seems sensible for librarians to aim at selecting books which are well-written , where there is a choice . |
| 28 | It seems clear on principle that the technical distinction between rights and privileges should not be determinative of the applicability of procedural protection . |
| 29 | Sir : It seems clear from Sarah Helm 's report that members of SPUC and the Parliamentary Pro-Life Group , are determined to use the debates on the forthcoming Embryo Research Bill as though embryo experimentation and abortion can be considered together . |
| 30 | Nagel 's profound point is that even where the agent is at the mercy of fate , and though it seems irrational upon reflection , our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without attributing to the agent responsibility and culpability in a wide range of cases of moral luck . |