Example sentences of "seem [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the middle and later 1960s , however , this ‘ Cisalpine ’ theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one : modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd , but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham ; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich , Bishop Robinson 's Honest to God and beyond . |
| 2 | That epicanthic fold over the eye , which seemed so much a part of the android 's ‘ difference ’ — its machine-nature — was here , on the natural man , quite attractive . |
| 3 | His affection and solicitude for Dobrée , as for other old friends like Herbert Read , Philip Mairet and Frank Morley , is very touching , and he seemed now almost a grandpaterfamilias for the men who had known him so well . |
| 4 | Khomeini seemed then only a very small voice in the wilderness , Bit in retrospect , the party at Persepolis can be seen to symbolize the end of the most successful years of the Shahs reign . |
| 5 | To me ‘ positive'/ ‘ negative ’ seemed too sharp a distinction , for which I should have preferred the category ‘ included'/ ‘ excluded ’ . |
| 6 | There were no notices , no signs , nothing that could indicate where he was to a traveller , so that the clean worn wood of the country platform and the solid unadorned brick of the little building seemed very much a part of the wooded slope at the back of it . |
| 7 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 8 | Detroit , which remains on the calendar , often seems much more a social event than a real race . |
| 9 | It is not easy , admittedly , at this point in time , when the Commonwealth seems so obviously a fig-leaf for imperial decline , to credit the extravagant hopes that once were entertained of it as the foundation of everlasting British dominion — influence , as it were , eternally made flesh . |
| 10 | It is a sort of it seems like almost a national characteristic , and after a while you get used to it again , but it is that is something which really does strike Americans when they come here . |
| 11 | And look for long and , like one of Cézanne 's views of the Mediterranean , the water seems as much a vertical blue screen as a horizontal lake . |
| 12 | The happy ending seems as much a contradiction of the melancholy , idealistic tone of the book as the ending of Conrad and Ford 's Romance did . |
| 13 | It 's , it 's quite right that it should be integrated in all our work programmes , rather than , it seems as necessarily a separatist erm , element or thing . |
| 14 | Harry 's return to the sources at wishwood seems very much a return to the Frazenan wood , when |
| 15 | As we said in Committee , eight years seems too short a time for the college to capitalise on experience gained by individual members . |
| 16 | A more rigorous church system , which in any case allowed them a chance to work out their own salvation , may not have seemed too high a price . |
| 17 | This continual effort to expound a programme gave the Rassemblement somewhat greater legitimacy as a democratic movement , but it also made it seem very much a party like all the others . |