Example sentences of "it seem [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , it seemed to matter enough for Mr Hurd to hint that the Government would refuse to ratify if the amendment prevailed . |
| 2 | She wanted to do things for him — it seemed to give some purpose to her life to have somebody depending even a little on her . |
| 3 | Whereas in Northumberland it rarely lasted for a whole day and almost never appeared on consecutive days , in London and Surrey it seemed to shine uninterrupted for weeks at a time . |
| 4 | After the war it seemed to lose some of its attraction . |
| 5 | The Trotskyist movement reflected the traditions of the pre-Revolutionary Russian Socialist groups , from which it seemed to draw much of its inspiration and terminology . |
| 6 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 7 | He says that it seemed to take more than half an hour . |
| 8 | ‘ It seemed to take less of a hit to give me a concussion and it 's taking me longer to recover , ’ he says . |
| 9 | It seemed to create that relationship , that tension between the audience and the performers which you got in a theatre , in a music-hall , but not usually in a cinema . |
| 10 | This had the effect of making the differences between owl and diurnal raptor digestion appear greater than it really is , and it seemed to confirm earlier reports of minimal effects of digestion in owls ( Reed & Reed , 1928 ; Duke et al . , |
| 11 | The court appeared to disagree with Goulding J at first instance in that it seemed to say that confidential information which can not be described as a " business secret " ( in the narrow sense of that phrase ) could not be protected by an express clause . |
| 12 | The more of these properties a dummy possessed the more strongly it was mobbed , but it seemed to make little difference whether the object was a stuffed owl with real plumage or an owl-shaped piece of painted wood . |
| 13 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 14 | ‘ It seemed to make more sense than having Rib Shacks in Reading and Rugby or elsewhere , ’ he said . |
| 15 | It seemed to blend best Newman 's two dictates for the show . |
| 16 | It was a film made some years ago in black and white , but , despite the difficulty of watching it in a foreign language , the power of the drama gripped them both , Sarella because she was a professional and was impressed by the intensity of the acting , and Marc because it seemed to strike some deep chord within him . |
| 17 | As I investigated further , it seemed to become clear that if this question could be answered it could only be in a complex way . |
| 18 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 19 | While the new order clearly meant that the Community law supplanted existing statute law , the concept that it should likewise override any later Acts of Parliament caused some legal debate , for it seemed to run contrary to the doctrine that no Parliament might bind its successors ( Howe , op. cit. , p. 13 ) . |
| 20 | Again , it seemed to complete earlier laws on the matter dating back to Magna Carta in its 1217 version . |
| 21 | In the sheltered darkness , out of the wind , it seemed to grow louder and more piercing . |
| 22 | Whatever it was , it seemed to require all your attention and I understood that I was to go . |
| 23 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 24 | It was a big machine which I think had not been set up right — it seemed to have more blades than necessary . |
| 25 | It seemed to have more life than the photograph . ’ |
| 26 | Or a great space hulk might be reported drifting in the void or in the warp , harbouring suspected pirates or , worse , those fierce cunning invasive Genestealers which could infest a human world just as termites infest a house — so that it seems to remain firm timber until it crumbles apart . |
| 27 | The paint , so thick in places that it seems to exist independent of the canvas , becomes an integral part of this annual cycle . |
| 28 | Right , the examiners at A Level expect , an A Level student to be able to use the apostrophe reliably and correctly , so let's just erm , go back to basics , with the apostrophe , as it seems to cause more confusion than , practically anything else . |
| 29 | It seems to need some attention . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Not really because it seems to do any good but just because the thinking is that it 's better for him than other commercial products , ’ says Kathleen . |