Example sentences of "[adv] seems [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Severe erosive oesophagitis may be a cause of iron deficiency anaemia but hiatus hernia alone seems unlikely to cause iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 2 | ‘ Despite the snow , all seems well . ’ |
| 3 | The dual-density Skywalk sole has an ingenious two-way pattern , and adhesion both uphill and down seems good . |
| 4 | This distinction is not manifested in English directly , but it is perhaps indirectly : for the Contraction from let us to let's only seems felicitous if the us is understood inclusively , as illustrated below ( Fillmore , 1971b ) : ( 43 ) Let's go to the cinema ( 44 ) ? |
| 5 | Ruskin 's espousal of a craftsmanly aesthetics , Robinson points out , is grounded in Christian convictions about the humility proper to a fallen creature : lacking such grounds , Pound 's holding to the craftsmanly not only seems arbitrary and unargued , it is as often presumptuous as humble . |
| 6 | Because he had the freedom to hang around with anyone , it only seems natural that somewhere along the line he was going to get mixed up with people who were bad news . |
| 7 | It not only seems cryptic ; it is so . |
| 8 | With hindsight it perhaps seems strange that one of the indisputably greatest figures in the whole of Western art devoted the better part of his life to sell-advancement , and to painting the King , his family , and their attendant dogs , dwarves and sycophants Certainly the irony of this , together with the fact that this inbred family of often considerable mental as well as physical fragility should have controlled the destiny of so vast an empire , is not lost on Gironella . |
| 9 | A single caster with a size 16 buried inside seems balanced to me and if , while legering for them , you find yourself missing too many bites , consider the size of your hook before altering anything else . |
| 10 | Best seems close to tears throughout this hour-long crack at our national game although his self-mocking provides a few of the brighter moments . |
| 11 | He already seems certain to be stripped of a major part of his ministerial duties . |
| 12 | For the becalmed , uneasy years that stretch ahead , the Major government already seems set on an Austro-Hungarian cultural policy : plenty of circuses , but not enough bread . |
| 13 | It already seems obvious that Mr Kinnock will be the earliest beneficiary , and this for a simple reason . |
| 14 | The prospect of a cure no longer seems impossible to believe , however long the patient has lived with the problem itself . |
| 15 | When a crisis comes , that is when a paradigm no longer seems valid , a multitude of competing theories may arise , and the scientific community is in a state of disarray . |
| 16 | It thus seems possible to conclude that no B II junctions play significant roles in the solution conformation of the CRE dodecamer . |
| 17 | It thus seems significant that there appears to have been a rumour that Edmund was in some way responsible for the death of Cnut 's father , after issuing a vain warning that tribute should not be levied from his church 's lands . |
| 18 | The possibility that non-insulin dependent diabetes in the mother impairs fetal growth thus seems unlikely to account for the association between low birth weight and reduced β cell function . |
| 19 | Dicey 's outlook thus seems positivist and his concept of sovereignty seems absolutist and authoritarian . |
| 20 | Hayek thus seems open to the criticism that he skews his account of moral and social development in order to render it harmonious with his ideological preference for a particular conception of liberty . |
| 21 | Though it is impossible to date the provisions with any confidence , in favour of dating them in the reign of Mehmed II is the fact that Sultan Murad III ( 982–1003/1574–95 ) , in a firman sent to his Grand Vezir in 985/1577 in connection with reform of the learned profession , speaks of " the ancient law ( kanun ) of Sultan Mehmed Gazi " : it thus seems likely that Mehmed II promulgated some legislation concerning the learned profession , if not these actual provisions . |
| 22 | It thus seems likely that the junctions which are recalled may be simply the large congested ones , ones which also happen to be risky . |
| 23 | " That 's handsome of you , but considering our relative workloads it scarcely seems fair , " I said . |
| 24 | It is a time of abject misery , when it just seems impossible to face the consequences of the loss that has occurred . |
| 25 | It just seems lazy . |
| 26 | Not that they did n't work ; it just seems that teaching machines have no charisma or charm . |
| 27 | Now that 's probably not really true — it just seems that way to him ! |
| 28 | ‘ It just seems such a senseless waste . |
| 29 | Oh , no , oh , no , I 'm not suggesting you do , but it just seems unkind of erm , clobbering them sort of both ways . |
| 30 | ‘ No , O K , it just seems strange — someone 's garden . ’ |