Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [conj] it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the patterns shown are so elaborate that it seems doubtful that they were woven : some may have been printed with blocks , while others may have been produced by a mixed-medium method , combining printing , embroidery , and appliqué work . |
| 2 | Although there are many other strands involved in Realism generally , Morgenthau 's work has been so influential that it seems sensible to start with it . |
| 3 | Taken as a whole , the cost of capital in Japan in 1988–93 will not have been as low as it seemed . |
| 4 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 5 | This may be less serious than it seems . |
| 6 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 7 | In the conclusion to Chapter 2 , I suggested that the gulf between the view of humans as free and choice-making , on the one hand , and determined by forces outside of their control , on the other , may not be as unbridgeable as it seems . |
| 8 | Surprisingly , this task may not be as hopeless as it seems . |
| 9 | She chewed on it and thought that it could n't possibly be as rubbery as it seemed . |
| 10 | The problem may not , however , be as difficult as it seems . |
| 11 | The answer might not be as obvious as it seems . |
| 12 | Sometimes , these pictures can be quite discouraging and it seems that there 's no way that we be anything like these men and women . |
| 13 | Some of the great controversies were so trivial that it seemed as if people had positively to search for something to quarrel about . |
| 14 | Perhaps I am being unnecessarily cynical but it seems that too much of a designer maker 's time is spent on public relations and maintaining the image and there is less willingness to share the things learned from technical and creative nightmares . |
| 15 | Herta is so small that it seems natural to be quite strict with her . |
| 16 | The predators that preyed on the giants were even more spectacular , and by now the name of Tyrannosaurus is so well-known that it seems to be one of the first tongue-twisters mastered by small children . |
| 17 | The recognition of a closed form is so intense that it seems to condense . |
| 18 | ‘ But it is so naive that it seems unlikely the politicians will want to spend much time on it , ’ says Jean Rankine , the museum 's deputy director . |
| 19 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 20 | Presumably it eventually dies , but that is less important than it seems to us mortals ; as far as this discussion is concerned the end of the cycle is reached when the present organism reproduces and a new generation 's cycle begins . |
| 21 | The rise in the popularity of herbs as medicinal remedies is less obvious but it seems to have come partly from a general dissatisfaction with synthesized drugs , as well as plastics , artificials and chemicals — " manufactured " articles of all kinds , which are being rejected in favour of substances naturally grown and formed by hand into the artifact required . |
| 22 | I think he 's fit to go and he 's so unhappy that it seems unkind to keep him caged up . |
| 23 | To try to predict the state of the market in five years time is not easy but it seems likely that the products will be more integrated , have a degree of artificial intelligence to provide unskilled operators with advice on how to compose the pages and support colour both through local printing systems and via links to professional equipment . |
| 24 | Although relatively unsophisticated , this method is reasonably fast and it seems to work satisfactorily where the target units are much larger than the source units |
| 25 | The total number of people who specifically have addictive disease is known and the total number of people whose lives are significantly affected by addictive disease of one kind or another in someone else is also unknown but it seems unlikely to be less than 25% of the total population . |
| 26 | Yet neither her choice nor Julia 's is as one-sided as it seems . |
| 27 | But that 's as far as it seems to go . |
| 28 | MISLEADING : Clydesdale 's offer is n't all that it seems |
| 29 | The weather was so nice that it seemed even the enemy had forgotten us . |
| 30 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |