Example sentences of "it seem [adj] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed strange to make that argument , Mr Cook said , when it was clear the whole policy review process was designed to placate the centre ground . |
| 2 | Once experimental control achieved in laboratory conditions made it possible to demonstrate that the strength of specific behaviours was indeed a function of environmental events , it seemed reasonable to describe such events as reinforcers . |
| 3 | With the two crux pitches of VII apparently behind us , it seemed reasonable to expect some hidden jugs , as the guide promised moves of VI- . |
| 4 | He went on to say that it seemed prudent to classify all non-accidental injuries to young children as ‘ high risk ’ cases , since 80% of all children unlawfully killed by their parents had been previously abused . |
| 5 | When it seemed impossible to sink any lower , the team rose to the challenge and sputtered their way through a pitiful draw with Iran , in which an own goal saved them from defeat . |
| 6 | It seemed sensible to reserve each end bay of the roof space for a bedroom , lit by a new window installed either in an adjacent roof-slope or in the flanking gable . |
| 7 | It seemed crazy to let such a young couple get married , for Shanti was only seventeen and Chris eighteen , but it did seem more sensible for them to be unemployed , married and happy than unemployed , unmarried and unhappy ! |
| 8 | That salary was more than ever a disincentive : it seemed difficult to attract experienced candidates . |
| 9 | To do this is also to go ‘ beyond ’ the unconscious , and it seems impossible to do this , as Urwin hopes , without reducing the unconscious , the last resort of subjectivity 's difficulty , to a discursive product . |
| 10 | From the findings of this follow up report it seems feasible to combine aggressive treatment of cardiac failure ( with its attendant end organ effects ) with early cardiac transplantation in severely ill patients . |
| 11 | Therefore , it seems logical to support Second Reading and to debate the details later . |
| 12 | On a low hill , houses were clustered round an important building with store-rooms , storage jars , and a collection of seal impressions ; it seems logical to interpret this large building as a temple , even if smaller in scale than the temples found in other Minoan towns . |
| 13 | It seems logical to study unprepared bowel in an unsedated patient , but this limits studies to the distal colon or requires invasive and time consuming intestinal transtubation . |
| 14 | It seems reasonable to suppose that there differences in the kind of provision that needs to be made by each of these stages of teacher formation . |
| 15 | And yet it seems reasonable to suppose that , since it remains the same object viewed by the observer , the retinal images do not change . |
| 16 | It seems reasonable to say that without Law there would have been no NFCC , at least not in the powerful form it reached in the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | It seems reasonable to draw these strands together and to presume that considerably more than a thousand teachers are now working in off-site units . |
| 18 | It seems reasonable to take this as a good approximation of output per head for the chain of suppliers to the industry because the chain is very diversified and includes a wide range of UK economic activities . |
| 19 | Grazing by molluscs figured so strongly among the hazards to a clover leaf that it seems reasonable to expect that , in those years when slugs or snails were abundant , they may act as important selective forces within clover populations . |
| 20 | It will be based in two contrasting urban regions , in that it seems reasonable to expect wide local and regional variations in established working practices and in the pattern of inter-agency linkages . |
| 21 | It seems reasonable to suggest that , whereas in daily life in a literate culture , we use speech largely for the establishment and maintenance of human relationships ( primarily interactional use ) , we use written language largely for the working out of and transference of information ( primarily transactional use ) . |
| 22 | Secondly , since alternative methods of endometrial samples are as accurate as dilatation and curettage , and acceptable to most patients , it seems reasonable to suggest that with appropriate guidelines , training , and support of the family health services authority , general practitioners could perform some of the procedures otherwise carried out in gynaecology outpatient services or the operating theatre . |
| 23 | It seems reasonable to assume that Oswiu certainly brought into subjection to himself the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu ( between the Forth and the Tay ) , for Bridei , the son of Bili , king of Strathclyde , and Ecgfrith 's cousin ( HB ch. 57 ) , who became king of the Picts on the expulsion of Drest and later fought against Ecgfrith , is described specifically in the Irish annals as ‘ king of Fortriu ’ at his death in 692 ( AU s.a . |
| 24 | It seems certain to have major and growing effects upon environmental monitoring and prediction in Europe and on the policies of component governments . |
| 25 | It seems appropriate to emphasise four main points when summarising the above discussion : |
| 26 | Given the enormity of the subject of electronic record keeping , it seems appropriate to use one type of system to exemplify the key issues . |
| 27 | In view of this it seems appropriate to study mucosal metabolism in ileal as well as colonic mucosa in UC patients and controls in the expectation that any abnormalities that could be detected in the histologically normal ileum of ulcerative colitis patients would be unlikely to be secondary phenomena . |
| 28 | It seems appropriate to distinguish two kinds of contextual selection , according to whether the selected sense is established or not . |
| 29 | IT SEEMS appropriate to begin this review of Angela Carter 's last book with an anecdote from which the necessary expletive will be deleted . |
| 30 | You do so many things , it seems pointless to mention any one of them . |