Example sentences of "[adj] as it seems " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do show , though , that the world even now is not quite as crowded as it seems ; that if agriculture was better organized , then it probably would be possible to feed the present human population , and still leave plenty of room for the rest of nature . |
| 2 | Yet neither her choice nor Julia 's is as one-sided as it seems . |
| 3 | have actually mutated themselves in as much as it seems to be that |
| 4 | So these people are important to you , so it 's vitally important that you do n't let them down , because initially this business has a strange effect on you in as much as it seems to take over your mind , does n't it ? |
| 5 | This is partly because the comparison of stylistic elements in different media such as vase painting and coinage is not as straightforward as it seems . |
| 6 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 7 | Choosing the trees is not as easy as it seems . |
| 8 | Jane Carter discovers that life on a WPG European Tour is n't always as easy as it seems |
| 9 | Putting on weight is n't as easy as it seems — it 's not just a matter of eating calorie-crammed foods . |
| 10 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 11 | Reading is not as simple as it seems , and the reader is not as passive a receiver as we once thought . |
| 12 | Even mother must have had the odd twinge , incredible as it seems . |
| 13 | Incredible as it seems , the result was almost inevitable . |
| 14 | However , this is not as tautological as it seems , since it implies a relationship between values and action that is problematic , as we shall see later . |
| 15 | The answer might not be as obvious as it seems . |
| 16 | Bourdillon 's figure for this was ‘ the annual provision of not less than 250 volumes for lending and reference purposes per thousand population ’ , but the figure is not as uncomplicated as it seems , since it refers only to new books and not to stock revision ( for which no standard was given ) . |
| 17 | PRINCE 'S new £50 million record contract is not as good as it seems . |
| 18 | Finally Big Bear takes Little Bear out to show that the darkness is n't as black as it seems — and he falls asleep in it , in Big Bear 's arms . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not quite as black as it seems , Mr Nadirpur . |
| 20 | The issue is not quite as petty as it seems . |
| 21 | But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems . |
| 22 | Yes , it is quite as sinister as it seems . |
| 23 | All this is n't as complicated as it seems . |
| 24 | So I mean it , it 's obviously a lot more sort of complicated as it seems on the outside . |
| 25 | Richards lifts a new single , ‘ Wicked As It Seems ’ , from his recent Virgin LP ‘ Main Offender ’ to coincide with the show . |
| 26 | Unlikely as it seems , mountain vanity is rife . |
| 27 | And that 's not so daft as it seems you know . |
| 28 | Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen |
| 29 | Daft as it seems , we could have won it because the kick was produced too quick for Paul Simpson and we hit the ball later on , Mark Stein 's a little back header , very unlucky not to win it for us . |
| 30 | But that 's as far as it seems to go . |