Example sentences of "make it seem [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The procedures of the system made it seem overwhelmingly complex : the visits , the record cards of teachers and helpers , the correspondence with employers , the labour exchange forms , the committee structure , and their numerous meetings . |
| 2 | Perhaps it would be truer to say that other things that I was doing made it seem less important . |
| 3 | When he tried to talk to Bella in bed at night , there were passing moments of ease and sweetness that made it seem almost possible to recover what had been lost . |
| 4 | The severe straits in which the Treasury found itself after the Crimean War made it seem quite impractical to seek a solution which involved increasing the duties of officialdom . |
| 5 | The fact that he lived with someone who slept by day , and the fact that his own life , centred around The Bar , was more or less nocturnal , made it seem quite normal to Boy to always consider the life of the city around him from the perspective of the night . |
| 6 | He was a thin man with a hooked nose and dark stubble on his chin which made it seem too weighty for his cadaverous face . |
| 7 | Constance made it seem so unimportant . |
| 8 | Concealed lighting made it seem so naturalistic that Alexandra almost expected to smell the salt and hear the cry of the seagulls which dipped and swooped at intervals around the walls . |
| 9 | ‘ You make it seem so simple . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ By encouraging people to manage in a certain way you make it seem more appropriate to appoint women . ’ |
| 11 | It was incredibly quiet , with distant traffic noise making it seem even quieter . |
| 12 | A very large amount had already been collected on a voluntary basis by religious groups for the Famine , making it seem almost superfluous or extortionate to do more . |
| 13 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'll find that northern seas are oddly more threatening ’ — I ignored her insult — ‘ because sunlight on water always makes it seem less formidable . |
| 15 | Using an old Greek name for it somehow makes it seem more respectable . |
| 16 | This makes it seem more feminist than egalitarian feminist psychology , and much further away from the traditional discipline . |
| 17 | The truth of the youth 's beauty will be distilled by the addition of poetic ornament which makes it seem more beautiful . |