Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [conj] it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 2 | This may be less serious than it seems . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , this task may not be as hopeless as it seems . |
| 6 | She chewed on it and thought that it could n't possibly be as rubbery as it seemed . |
| 7 | The problem may not , however , be as difficult as it seems . |
| 8 | The answer might not be as obvious as it seems . |
| 9 | Sometimes , these pictures can be quite discouraging and it seems that there 's no way that we be anything like these men and women . |