Example sentences of "[adv] seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This great designer has an uncanny ability to capture the prevailing mood of the moment and to rework it in a way that can suddenly seem understandable , even wearable , and invariably highly influential . |
| 2 | By 35 , our faces have undergone structural changes , so that the hair-styles which suited us throughout our 20s may suddenly seem severe and make us look older . |
| 3 | The rearing of vast numbers of animals that will never live out their natural span , and that are killed for human purposes , will only seem immoral if ( yet again ) there is a confused identification with similar programmes were they to involve human beings . |
| 4 | To Malebranche , for example , it appeared not unreasonable that there were an infinite number of trees in a single seed ; this , he argued , would only seem extravagant to those who measured God 's powers by their own imagination . |
| 5 | A stupendous cinema epic , reduced to a sort of frantic scurrying in a goldfish bowl , might merely seem ridiculous . |
| 6 | It would thus seem that unit two pre-dates unit one and that the mill was laid out after unit two . |
| 7 | These are the pleasant sorts of games played by friends whose friendship mainly lives by correspondence ; to anyone else they would just seem silly . |
| 8 | Oh , and do n't tell him your war stories because they might just seem trivial to him . ’ |
| 9 | However , specific observations always needs to be related to general claims or GENERALISATIONS , without which the specific can just seem trivial and random . |
| 10 | These statistics can easily seem impenetrable and tedious , but they have important light to throw if we can tease out their implications . |
| 11 | It does not seem possible to explain away the legal rights and duties of a body as being merely the rights and duties of the individuals composing it ; and |
| 12 | But to people who are not trained in science it simply did not seem possible that mankind 's puny factories , and even punier cars and refrigerators , could have an effect on the well-being of the entire world . |
| 13 | It does not seem possible that such women just were not able to have part-time work that would enable them to keep house for an elderly parent , and do their own thing as well . |
| 14 | It did not seem possible . |
| 15 | It does not seem possible with the research which their Central Office are regularly doing , and with the continual monitoring of public opinion , that they did not have some idea as to how people would react . |
| 16 | On the face of it , therefore , it would not seem possible to maintain the view that morality without religion is unthinkable , or like a house built on sand . |
| 17 | ‘ Three months ago it did not seem possible that we could take the Championship again but we never gave up . |
| 18 | It may , therefore , be more productive to work within the limitations imposed by the data than to continue to explore art-styles as a root to chronological precision when this does not seem possible because of the unknown number of unknown variables . |
| 19 | In this and the following story , religious belief played a significant part in what does , or does not seem possible for the client to accept . |
| 20 | It did not seem possible that so lively a person was dead . |
| 21 | I managed to get to the wine bar the other side of St Paul 's in time to pick up Rebecca and the bar staff did not seem sad to see her go . |
| 22 | But on the whole the bundles of blanket and piled clothing in the beds did not seem alive at all and I might have been alone in the block . |
| 23 | Teachers can play an important role in helping them to adjust , but since practical and financial arrangements often cause difficulties for parents , teachers need to be sensitive in offering help so that it does not seem intrusive . |
| 24 | He would have liked some more but it did not seem appropriate . |
| 25 | In view of their small size , however , it does not seem appropriate to say anything more about them . |
| 26 | A wide circulation or advertising the sale does not seem appropriate — at least not in the first instance . |
| 27 | But such agencies do not seem appropriate precursors of a discussion of the elaboration of lozenge designs , of the trend to scenic or elaborate figural work , or the centralisation of arrangements . |
| 28 | In many of the cases brought against experts , where full arbitral status did not seem appropriate , the expert 's immunity was said to derive from the fact that the expert 's status was that of a " quasi-arbitrator " , or that the expert was " in the position of an arbitrator " , or that an expert was " in the nature of an arbitrator " . |
| 29 | However this hold upon her does not seem strong , as later on in the same scene she launches into song , cleverly making the first three lines rhyme with lead ! |
| 30 | Now he did and they did not seem absurd , they seemed like good reasons . |