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 | That spirit persists , particularly in Oxford ; witness John Bayley : ‘ Most of the theories Eagleton expounds may soon seem outlandish curiosities , cooked up by teachers of literature who need to feel professional , in the sense that philosophers or scientists do , or powerful , like politicians . ’ |
| 12 | A combination of the ideology of the market-place , public hostility to nuclear power and fears of high energy prices adding to the problems of an uncompetitive manufacturing industry may have resulted in a setback for nuclear power in Britain , but fossil fuels would no longer seem such overwhelmingly good value , according to Chris Patten , if their wider environmental costs were allocated and more fully reflected in prices . |
| 13 | It would superficially seem reasonable to accept 7.45 , but it should be noted that more of the highest third of pupils placed " pm " after the clock time than did pupils in other bands . |
| 14 | Since these appropriation accounts are on the cash basis , accounting standards would hardly seem relevant . |
| 15 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
| 16 | A cursory rebuke for ‘ poor judgment ’ in ‘ failing to follow guidelines ’ would hardly seem proper redress for what my children have undergone . |
| 17 | Four years after taking over the leadership of the party , he can still seem shallow and dull . |
| 18 | ‘ Does it still seem reasonable ? ’ |
| 19 | Palestinians can still seem demonic . |
| 20 | Palestinians can still seem demonic . |
| 21 | Jobs apart , looking young and sexy may still seem important and desirable to many of those who have grown up in a society which lays such emphasis on youth and sex . |
| 22 | These four poems all have things in common such as the careful planning and structure of them which does not always seem obvious . |
| 23 | Durie is only half right — a defeat would certainly kiss goodbye to Scotland 's sixth successive World Cup finals , but a draw would also seem insufficient . |
| 24 | It will also seem strange not to hear familiar strident two-tone horn of the diesel locomotives warning of their approach at Depot road/rail crossings . |
| 25 | How many times God must be saying to us what he said in anticipating Israel 's doubts after the exile : ‘ Even if it may seem impossible to the survivors of this nation on that day , will it also seem impossible to me ? ’ |
| 26 | Therefore it would also seem possible to learn a functional sign language without a positive desire to become deaf on the part of the hearing learner ; nevertheless , it has been the case in the past that those who have learned sign language have often been cast in the integrative mould and have had their views devalued by the hearing community because of it . |
| 27 | This may also seem obvious : a logical analogue of the preceding two criteria . |
| 28 | It may also seem unusual to report on 8% increase in exports of the metal manufacturing sector bearing in mind the rundown of British Steel 's activities in Scotland . |
| 29 | It may also seem improbable that the world 's transaction processing systems will suddenly switch to Taos , but on the other hand the company is already hard at work building SQL interface objects and others that will confer Posix compliance , it has even chatted to a bank about payroll applications . |
| 30 | It may also seem improbable that the world 's transaction processing systems will suddenly switch to Taos , but on the other hand the company is already hard at work building SQL interface objects and others that will confer Posix compliance , it has even chatted to a bank about payroll applications . |