Example sentences of "it seemed [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it seemed many of the biggest news stories came from the world of industry , most notably , the miners ' strike . |
| 2 | From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen , which reads : ‘ It seemed good to the men of Sounion : since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1 , so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein ’ … ( the last word is untranslatable : ‘ carry on all the activities usual in an agora ’ is accurate but too prosaic ; there is also the sense of ‘ promenading oneself : Syll. 925 ) . |
| 3 | Two inscriptions from the early fourth century show that it did not always do so ( Tod 103 , 108 = WV 7 , HD 20 ) : they have the unusual opening formula ‘ it seemed good to the Council ’ . |
| 4 | The normal formula is ‘ it seemed good to the Council and People ’ , indicating that the decree had been prepared for the Assembly ( ‘ the people ’ ) by the Council , and was then voted on by the Assembly . |
| 5 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 6 | It seemed sad for the pregnant women , especially , to be in such a depressing house . |
| 7 | In the 190s it seemed intolerable to the then bishop of Rome , Victor , that the churches in Asia Minor celebrated Easter on a different date , and to the distress of many he threatened excommunication on those who did not adopt the Roman date . |
| 8 | It seemed cheap at the price — five guineas for travel and a month 's board and lodging . |
| 9 | At the time it seemed one of the better right hands I 've ever thrown — from the shoulder , punching not at but through the target , with half-pivot that threw all my weight behind the blow . |
| 10 | I appreciate the arguments that go on nowadays , but let us not forget that the old crossings were not suitable for the disabled , which is why , in the case to which I am referring , it seemed unnecessary for the authority to insist on a ramp being built . |
| 11 | It seemed remote to the point of impossibility . |
| 12 | In this situation it seemed appropriate for the staff at Perth College to offer educational opportunities which would parallel those available in other music fields . |
| 13 | It seemed impossible to reconcile the ideal of the simple monastic life with a great religious order , just as it seemed impossible for the papacy to exercise leadership without becoming an autocratic bureaucracy . |
| 14 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |
| 15 | The monarch twice interrupted journeys to give a royal address and complained it seemed unworthy of the birthplace of railways . |
| 16 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 17 | On the one hand , it seemed clear from the studies in five authorities that the Act 's emphasis on partnership was recognised and in general accepted . |
| 18 | In addition , since the Directive did not define investors , it seemed conclusive to the Court that it was not intended to give them enforceable rights . |
| 19 | When I designed the L.game it seemed obvious from the rules I had written that the pieces could be picked up and placed anywhere on the board . |
| 20 | All at once one of the birds — it seemed enormous to the child , but may well have been as small as a sparrow — flew into the air and fluttered past the pushchair , its wings actually brushing the little girl 's face . |
| 21 | It seemed worried about the power of alternative media , beyond its control , to give interpretations different from those it wanted put over . |
| 22 | By assuming the political economic circumstances of this displacement as given , of course it seemed natural to the colonial administration that the condition of environmental deterioration was the fault of the cultivators themselves . |