Example sentences of "that [pers pn] seemed [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , after years of wartime austerity , consumers were so relieved to sink their teeth into a nice slice of meat that they seemed content to remain in ignorance about its origins . |
| 2 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
| 3 | He went on to say that it seemed prudent to classify all non-accidental injuries to young children as ‘ high risk ’ cases , since 80% of all children unlawfully killed by their parents had been previously abused . |
| 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 | To be sure , the great apes behave so intelligently and have such a rich social life that it seemed extraordinary to many people that they could not learn to speak . |
| 6 | Since the Great War , 1914–18 , it has been practiced by wage-earners , suffering from long periods of unemployment and underemployment , so drastic that it seemed abject folly to produce children who could neither be adequately nourished nor sufficiently educated to secure a satisfactory livelihood . |
| 7 | We voted against it on the ground that it seemed absurd to respond to a crisis in the beef sector simply by throwing yet more money into a system which has not been reformed . |
| 8 | There was so much snow that it seemed impossible that this was not the natural surface of the earth . |
| 9 | The early evening sun was warm on her face and the sky so clear and calm that it seemed impossible so beautiful a world could be at war ; that small , beautiful world that was Yeoman 's Lane , and Tingle 's Wood , through which it ran . |
| 10 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 11 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 12 | She loved him , so much that it seemed impossible that she had lived her life this long without him , impossible that he could n't know it from her response . |
| 13 | I he scene was so magical , so stunning , that it seemed surreal . |
| 14 | So all she could report was that it seemed dark and cruiser-shaped . |
| 15 | We had such happy family holidays in the drizzle waiting for the sun to try and come out that it seemed churlish to spoil things with science . |
| 16 | He always used to speak so bitterly about his experiences as a monk that it seemed bizarre to think of him working alongside them at Hurstdown . |
| 17 | It struck him that it seemed weird that Leeds rejected continuous bids from Blackburn all through the season and then suddenly , out of the blue , accepted one . |
| 18 | So much had happened that it seemed incredible that it was barely a week since she 'd crossed the bridge in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | The room , painted a white so fresh that it seemed pale blue , was cool and soothing . |
| 20 | It was against this background , namely that it seemed preposterous to suppose that a.b could ever be other than equal to b.a in any consistent algebraic setting , that Hamilton looked for more than 10 years for an extension of complex numbers suitable for application to the physics of 3-dimensional space . |
| 21 | And the weather outside sounded so bad that it seemed wise to stay as she was a little longer . |
| 22 | The Bishop told clergy late last month and before Tony 's death , that it seemed likely that permission given by the Law Lords to stop feeding Tony would soon be acted upon : |
| 23 | And that he seemed determined to avoid . |
| 24 | One cello player , at least , swept his bow with so much passion that he seemed likely to roll off the platform . |
| 25 | It was n't simply that he seemed incapable of telling the truth : he could n't begin to express any thought without it sounding false or grotesque . |