Example sentences of "make it seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The call of the birds has made it seem good |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even if Maastricht is ratified intact , the past four months have made it seem backward-looking , or even irrelevant . |
| 4 | It was probably the effect of the fog that had made it seem huge at first . |
| 5 | The value that your job is given by other people can make it seem worthwhile . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | The wind coursed over it and flapped it — little whip noises that stirred it and made it seem alive , the dog-face scowling . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He made it seem easy — that was different : that was the pride of the macho Valley rugby player . |
| 12 | ‘ Obviously it 's hard work , ’ she adds , ‘ but it really struck a chord with me and that made it seem easy . |
| 13 | This dream always seemed just around the corner as George almost made it seem possible . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The living-room was no more than fifteen feet square ; but pale colours and a huge window made it seem larger . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He made it seem important and Special . |
| 20 | Clever lighting made it seem airy even though there was little light from the street . |
| 21 | It was still raining , great drops spurted up whirlpools of dust , but the buildings cut off the sand and made it seem lighter . |
| 22 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
| 23 | He was a calm , modest , and patient man , which made it seem obvious that fly-fishing was his chosen hobby . |
| 24 | If that sounds like standard talk , Back To The Planet make it seem heartfelt . |
| 25 | Atheists , who have destroyed the continuum by insisting that death is the end , have failed to take into account that this arid conclusion must feed back into life as it is lived , making it seem haphazard and futile and emphasising its injustices . |
| 26 | In contrast to the psychological rationalization , an ideological rationalization can refer to the socially shared content of ideology : in particular it can refer to the son of ideology , which seeks to explain the social world by making it seem rational . |
| 27 | Sunlight burnished the surface of the grey-green water , making it seem dense and yet clear , like melted glass . |
| 28 | Making the new situation attractive is not the same as making it seem attractive . |
| 29 | For as long as it seemed remotely relevant , the tactic never failed ; and it was easy enough to make it seem relevant in the atmosphere of international hostility of 1945 . |
| 30 | Do n't pad out your answer to make it seem impressive . |