Example sentences of "it seem [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed wrong somehow to take the ring . |
| 2 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
| 3 | His primary commitment was to effective control ; he chose deterrence because it seemed most obviously to follow from his views on human rationality . |
| 4 | Possessive adjectives , however , do not produce a satisfactory result : ( 60 ) our bicycles damaged all had red handlebars your ideas discussed will be put to our colonel One may enquire why there should be this contrast , since it seems easy enough to see what meaning should be attached to each of the sentences of ( 60 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ It seems wrong not to accept you when you feel so strongly , ’ she replied unhappily . |
| 6 | It seems almost wholly to have been the brain child of Gordon Thomas , appointed engineer to the Grand Junction Canal in 1894 and son of Hubert Thomas , general manager and clerk to the Grand Junction . |
| 7 | We would certainly agree that it is an unusual adjective , and further that , as Bolinger says , it acts as an intensifier with the definite article , but it seems quite clearly to follow from this that it can not be a sense-qualifier of the sort which Bolinger has in mind . |
| 8 | So it seems fair not to return the deposit . |