Example sentences of "make [pron] seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 2 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |
| 3 | It may sometimes make them seem indecisive and easily led , but it also bestows qualities of sensitivity , sympathy and empathy . |
| 4 | You make me seem insincere . |
| 5 | The call of the birds has made it seem good |
| 6 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 7 | Even if Maastricht is ratified intact , the past four months have made it seem backward-looking , or even irrelevant . |
| 8 | It was probably the effect of the fog that had made it seem huge at first . |
| 9 | It made everything seem hopeless . |
| 10 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 11 | For those whose chief concern is for Yeats , the book will of course make him seem shadowy and self-deluding , but it will also testify to his conscientiousness and loyalty . |
| 12 | Not that such a tenuous connection was any real guarantee of respectability , but it did make him seem less of a stranger . |
| 13 | It made him seem weak to her robust northern eyes . |
| 14 | The mask made him seem menacing , and she suddenly had the sensation that with Lucenzo she was playing with fire . |
| 15 | The value that your job is given by other people can make it seem worthwhile . |
| 16 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 17 | By the early 1970s , however , the situation looked more favourable ; the reorganization of teacher education following the 1972 White Paper and the run-down of initial teacher training made it seem feasible to redeploy resources to raise the quality of the teaching force in further education . |
| 18 | ‘ But with Barney being so ill , and with Cara being so upset , it made it seem awful that I would n't spend an hour of my life doing this one big thing for her . ’ |
| 19 | The wind coursed over it and flapped it — little whip noises that stirred it and made it seem alive , the dog-face scowling . |
| 20 | We are all set up for the perfect ending for George to live in peace while Lennie , tended the rabbits , but somehow the author still made it seem impossible as there was always trouble brewing for them . |
| 21 | He made it seem easy — that was different : that was the pride of the macho Valley rugby player . |
| 22 | ‘ Obviously it 's hard work , ’ she adds , ‘ but it really struck a chord with me and that made it seem easy . |
| 23 | This dream always seemed just around the corner as George almost made it seem possible . |
| 24 | European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future . |
| 25 | This sight brought her immediately down from her high , tragic pinnacle and made it seem all somehow cosier , as she thought she was sharing this music with such a wise and friendly dog . |
| 26 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 27 | The living-room was no more than fifteen feet square ; but pale colours and a huge window made it seem larger . |
| 28 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 29 | He made it seem important and Special . |
| 30 | Clever lighting made it seem airy even though there was little light from the street . |