Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as it seems " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's not so daft as it seems you know . |
| 2 | There 's a lot of erm , conflicting ideas about using Abbey 's rate book and , and you might look very confusing in itself , but actually it 's not half so bad as it seems . |
| 3 | The concept is not as straight forward as it seems . |
| 4 | Surprisingly , this task may not be as hopeless as it seems . |
| 5 | In the conclusion to Chapter 2 , I suggested that the gulf between the view of humans as free and choice-making , on the one hand , and determined by forces outside of their control , on the other , may not be as unbridgeable as it seems . |
| 6 | They do show , though , that the world even now is not quite as crowded as it seems ; that if agriculture was better organized , then it probably would be possible to feed the present human population , and still leave plenty of room for the rest of nature . |
| 7 | Yet neither her choice nor Julia 's is as one-sided as it seems . |
| 8 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 9 | Reading is not as simple as it seems , and the reader is not as passive a receiver as we once thought . |
| 10 | Choosing the trees is not as easy as it seems . |
| 11 | Jane Carter discovers that life on a WPG European Tour is n't always as easy as it seems |
| 12 | Putting on weight is n't as easy as it seems — it 's not just a matter of eating calorie-crammed foods . |
| 13 | This is partly because the comparison of stylistic elements in different media such as vase painting and coinage is not as straightforward as it seems . |
| 14 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 15 | However , this is not as tautological as it seems , since it implies a relationship between values and action that is problematic , as we shall see later . |
| 16 | Bourdillon 's figure for this was ‘ the annual provision of not less than 250 volumes for lending and reference purposes per thousand population ’ , but the figure is not as uncomplicated as it seems , since it refers only to new books and not to stock revision ( for which no standard was given ) . |
| 17 | The answer might not be as obvious as it seems . |
| 18 | Yes , it is quite as sinister as it seems . |
| 19 | Finally Big Bear takes Little Bear out to show that the darkness is n't as black as it seems — and he falls asleep in it , in Big Bear 's arms . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not quite as black as it seems , Mr Nadirpur . |
| 21 | But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems . |
| 22 | PRINCE 'S new £50 million record contract is not as good as it seems . |
| 23 | The issue is not quite as petty as it seems . |
| 24 | All this is n't as complicated as it seems . |
| 25 | But that 's as far as it seems to go . |
| 26 | Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen |
| 27 | The problem may not , however , be as difficult as it seems . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's a lot of method here ; it 's not as arbitrary as it seems , ’ David says of the heady mixture of pattern and texture . |
| 29 | But it is not as bad as it seems , and it is fairly typical for any dozen books selected at random . |
| 30 | The ascent from here to the summit looks fairly fearsome but it is not as bad as it seems . |