Example sentences of "[noun] seems so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixpence seems so little … ’ |
| 2 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 3 | ‘ Lots of times I think a president seems so out of your league as far as knowing somebody . |
| 4 | They could explain to the child why he feels as though the world has turned upside down and why his remaining parent seems so upset . |
| 5 | This work seems so much more relevant to the training of doctors in a developing country than theoretical exercises in high-technology medicine still promoted in the undergraduate syllabus of many a traditional school . |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes his suffering seems so bad you lose hope completely , ’ she says . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps that 's why your room seems so much nicer than our 's . |
| 8 | Now I 'm not quite sure whether it 's because we 've known , like Naomi , we 've we know periods of barrenness and leanness that his blessing seems so much more , I do n't know if that 's what it is , or whether it is just because his blessings are so bountiful , but she is overwhelmed by God 's goodness and by God 's blessing to her they could now experience God 's blessing . |
| 9 | I can remember exactly what I was doing and , out of context , my behaviour seems so harmless that the need for secrecy appears quite mysterious . |
| 10 | But the difference is that the degree to which Milton is speaking in his own person seems so much less in the poem , does n't it ? |
| 11 | The relativism of values seems so sensible and convincing until we reflect on what this implies , namely that what we feel passionately about with regard to truth or justice or purpose of life has no justification apart from the fact that we happen to think like this . |
| 12 | To the shrew , 24 hours seems so long that it divides it up into many smaller intervals of activity and rest , effectively experiencing many days within one rotation of the Earth . |
| 13 | Few geniuses seems so untouched , in a fashion-ridden world , by the fashions of the moment . |
| 14 | But the migratory instinct and the geographical pattern seems so deeply etched into their inward mental fabric that their pre-programmed habit rules the day . |
| 15 | ‘ Your Grace seems so certain ? ’ |
| 16 | Even though the custom of parental arrangement seems so strange , so disaster prone , to them it is the only way . |
| 17 | But some pop music seems so aggressive . |
| 18 | But , their leader tells David Wastell , Political Editor , although success seems so close , this is not really what he wants at all |
| 19 | Pritchett seems so much older it seems he should have it , but I 'll go for VS Naipaul . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , that kind of writing went out of fashion almost instantly , and certainly in the nineteen twenties and thirties , was replaced by a completely different tradition , which has er , influenced our expectations and perhaps explains why the book seems so old fashioned . |
| 21 | Above all , a pension seems so far away when you are in your twenties and thirties . |
| 22 | All human activity seems so petty . |
| 23 | Maybe it 's because their queues are so much more miserable that the waiting seems so long |
| 24 | Yet an evaluation seems so often to be understood more as a sort of independent commission of enquiry undertaken at a fairly late stage in the life of a programme or project by ‘ experts ’ from outside whose findings may or may not be in straightforward language . |
| 25 | 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 . |