Example sentences of "it seem [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 2 | There was a general election pending at this time and it seemed certain we should lose it . |
| 3 | It seemed certain it happened at the time of manufacture . |
| 4 | They 'd come here to learn , but it seemed all they would ever learn was how to alter that which they had no possibility of understanding into something so familiar there was no point in their understanding it . |
| 5 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 6 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 7 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 8 | Robert Dudley left with haste , realising that he had gone too far this time , and it seemed doubtful his beloved monarch would ever forgive him . |
| 9 | It seemed incredible I had n't thought of that before — normally I was constantly aware of his proximity through the thin dividing wall . |
| 10 | When he tried his hand at another murder and the proposed victim turned out to be a young Anglo-Prussian only just arrived in Vienna , it seemed likely you were the man . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems impossible I 'll ever find who I 'm looking for . |
| 12 | But er no it seems strange you 're dealing with a man who 's got your future in his h in his hands , yet he can turn round and do stupid things like that , and totally just disregard the human aspect if you like . |
| 13 | You 're so efficient it seems strange you have n't mastered the art of the dumpling . |
| 14 | Can you just explain how that would work though 'cos we 're now erm , auditing by job , are n't we , and given I do n't know the audit timetable I ca n't visualise the effect this would have but it seems that one could be making a change 'cos a particular , a job 's been audited and it effects Q P1 , or something one month , and therefore you make changes to it and another job 's audited the second , another month , the second month and Q P1 needs changing again , and it , in terms of keeping our staff with us , it will be quite conf , I think it 's not terribly practical to keep having constant change . |
| 15 | It seems that there a a a large figure . |
| 16 | Back in Europe he once again faded into the shadows , though it seems probable he attended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities in Brussels , along with Nehru and Hatta . |
| 17 | Would it be a situation if we asked the Town Clerk and er maybe with the Chairman , it 's a little bit difficult , I think the Town Clerk at this stage , to speak to and then if it seems possible we could bring it up at the Planning Committee meeting and arrange a date to go down and have a look , when we 've actually approached the land owners . |
| 18 | If the police are to continue to exercise control over an increasingly pluralist society , which is better educated and less willing simply to accept any version of events handed out by the powerful , then it seems essential they should avoid scrutiny yet suggest they are totally accountable to the democratic ideal . |
| 19 | And if such a classificatory system is a major feature of the way the police control their fellow citizens , then it seems essential it should be identified , assessed , and described . |
| 20 | Writs have been served for outstanding advertising fees amounting to £16,000 , and it seems unlikely they will be paid — bailiffs were sent to the firm 's place of trading , but nothing of any value was recovered . |
| 21 | Though space is being yielded by the Department of Printed Books , it seems unlikely there will be room for more than two or three years ' acquisitions . |
| 22 | ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but it seems unlikely he got out this way . |
| 23 | And the grandmother 's homily in all its macabre detail , leading up to ‘ so if the dead could shave there 's no excuse for the living ’ releases a humorous response because it seems just what a respectable parent would say , in desperation to whip her errant son back to the straight ‘ n ’ narrow . |
| 24 | It seems likely they met in their respective offices or possibly at the Salisbury Club which was a new , but important , social and business focus in the town . |
| 25 | It seems likely he would have said they did . |
| 26 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 27 | It seems likely she did , but we do n't know for sure . |
| 28 | I can not understand my conception of the world in terms of , or reduce it to , some account of my dispositions , as it seems plausible one might for the rat 's ( or any third person 's ) conception of the world and its dispositions . |
| 29 | Well he said well it seems funny they 're going out does n't it ? |
| 30 | It seems obvious she must have known it was the fermer but he wished she had said so , after all this remained his city . |