Example sentences of "it seem [adj] [coord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This moderate system of government was frequently adopted by Charles , who early on in his reign had recognised the wisdom of leaving local leaders in place wherever it seemed possible and beneficial to his own aims . |
| 2 | Dr Greene came with increasing frequency to the house to examine his patient , and although the baby was large for its gestational age it seemed healthy and active , with a strong , regular heartbeat . |
| 3 | It sighed and groaned and creaked so that sometimes it was easy to believe ghostly footsteps were padding about ; but this noise was something different from the usual spasmodic little creaks — it seemed regular and deliberate . |
| 4 | The suggestion of fatherly closeness was essential , even if it seemed awkward and difficult to illustrate . |
| 5 | It seemed cosy and welcoming , though suddenly red gingham — the same pattern as those tablecloths that had become beds and togas — did funny things in the region of her heart . |
| 6 | When this network of catastrophic thoughts and fantasies was exposed , it seemed bizarre and ridiculous . |
| 7 | All I had ever known was that very dull — at least , now I call it dull , then it seemed secure and eternal — but life at the vicarage was dull . ’ |
| 8 | Her poor face was white , I remember , and it seemed thin and small like a dead child 's . |
| 9 | It seemed fresh and charming compared with some of the bawdy , world-weary journalists he had to deal with . |
| 10 | Just as it seems strange and unnecessary that the law should have to choose between duress as a complete defence to murder , and duress as no defence at all , so it seems strange and unnecessary that a killing which narrowly fails to come within the requirements of self-defence or other justifiable force should then be classified as murder . |
| 11 | Just as it seems strange and unnecessary that the law should have to choose between duress as a complete defence to murder , and duress as no defence at all , so it seems strange and unnecessary that a killing which narrowly fails to come within the requirements of self-defence or other justifiable force should then be classified as murder . |
| 12 | Mary shuddered ‘ I do n't like this place , it seems sad and depressing , do n't you think it 's turned cold ? ’ |
| 13 | It it seems to me we 've spent about an hour and ten minutes or so almost shadow boxing over this particular policy erm and we we keep running into well running both matters together and it seems right and proper that we should do that . |
| 14 | On the whole we are too ashamed to use inconvenience as a way of changing behaviour because it seems dishonest and inefficient . |
| 15 | It seems flimsy and awkward compared with the good-old lever , and I did n't get used to it all week . |
| 16 | For the rest of us , it seems commonplace and obvious that we should be able to think , imagine , perceive and remember in the ways that we do , and we tend to take it for granted that the rest of the world has the same sort of experience of everyday life that we do . |
| 17 | As this reviewer writes , it seems puffy and bloated . |
| 18 | It seems important and fruitful to develop such an approach to Earth Mysteries — this link with the very rock beneath us . |
| 19 | Much of it seems realistic and sensible : ‘ Do not threaten to call the police . |
| 20 | It seems extreme and many women , for reasons of poverty , children and physical fear remain in unsatisfactory relationships without hope of change . |
| 21 | Atheists , who have destroyed the continuum by insisting that death is the end , have failed to take into account that this arid conclusion must feed back into life as it is lived , making it seem haphazard and futile and emphasising its injustices . |
| 22 | Mr Lyle 's neighbours at Beaumanoir contrive , despite its size , to make it seem intimate and domestic by creating the ‘ lived-in look ’ ( which Jane Austen appears to be describing with some scepticism in Persuasion ) : |
| 23 | He made it seem important and Special . |