Example sentences of "in [noun sg] it seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The constant impression given by the Prague School is that the sort of description and analysis they call for is essentially objective and scientific in character , but in practice it seems impossible to exclude a strong element of subjectivity from this kind of structural study . |
| 2 | In practice it seems inevitable that the CCITT will simply respond to the initiatives of the manufacturing giants . |
| 3 | She could imagine that Tom would go out and leave his door open if he was working about the place but not if he had quitted it , and in winter it seemed foolhardy to say the least to leave it and let the cold air invade the house . |
| 4 | But in principle it seems inexcusable to penalise the company for breach of a duty not owed by it but by its directors and intended to protect , among others , the company and its members . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ although , as she looked through the crack it did not seem all right at all ; in fact it seemed all wrong . |
| 6 | In fact it seems likely that mountain goats are very successful at avoiding all these predators . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In retrospect it seems extraordinary that some of these could be prescribed in the first place . |
| 9 | In retrospect it seems clear that this ideological shift was made , as were a whole series of later ones , because the Soviet Union in its role as emerging superpower ( rather than as leading socialist nation ) wished to respond to a perceived change in the world situation in a more positive way than was permitted by the orthodox formulations . |
| 10 | In retrospect it seems obvious to say that the laying of burr veneers onto any substrate is temperature sensitive but that is being wise after the event . |
| 11 | In retrospect it seems remarkable that economic policy should have paid lip service for so long to an untested hypothesis . |