Example sentences of "[det] seems [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems not unreasonable in view of the provision for public transport , present and proposed ( ie the metro ) . |
| 2 | This seems quite difficult at first , but you should soon be able to weave more quickly as you find out when you move your hand to release the yarn ready to lay it over for the next row . |
| 3 | As a matter of principle this seems excessively hard on third parties ; the buffer stock Manager was known publicly to be the representative of the International Tin Council , there was reliance upon this by the third parties and the States therefore should not be able later to deny their involvement . |
| 4 | This seems very close to the name of the former manor of Lantyan , still the name of woodlands and a farmstead beside the River Fowey below Castle Dore . |
| 5 | This seems very similar to Sheldrake 's concept of the morphogenetic field and to Lethbridge 's ideas on the formation of the nymphs of the elements . |
| 6 | However this seems only appropriate for the central figure , especially since his name is so strikingly left uncategorised . |
| 7 | This seems highly unlikely at a time when high street stores are holding sales before Christmas . |
| 8 | Lewis 's debate in the Preface with other Milton critics — with Saurat , Eliot , I. A. Richards or Leavis — all seems pretty dead to us now , since not many people would read any of the aforementioned critics nowadays as critics unless they were interested in the history of criticism for its own sake . |
| 9 | But nevertheless , at that stage in your career , the tendency is to be in so much of a hurry , that if the opportunities present themselves , it all seems quite logical in a way . |
| 10 | ‘ Mmm , that seems rather pointless to me . |
| 11 | It has an ox 's skin on its back and that seems rather unfair on the ox . |
| 12 | ‘ I only know one story about you and that seems very much to your credit . ’ |
| 13 | That seems too obvious to be worth raising , but it is n't . |
| 14 | Neither seems remotely interested in the characters they invent as anything more than reflections of authorial narcissism . |
| 15 | It is disputed whether these onion domes were a development indigenous to the area or whether the idea came from further east , but the former seems more likely on the weight of evidence ; they were being built by the mid-twelfth century here and were designed in a great variety of shapes and in large numbers . . |
| 16 | The former seems more likely in larger companies and the latter in small , particularly new , companies . |