Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could see part of Dewer Street through the half-open gate and it seemed to be deserted . |
| 2 | It was during these five years of Clarendon 's first period at the Foreign Office that it seems to have changed its status from the personal domain of the Secretary of State to a professionally staffed institution with its own executive functions and , at the same time , positive steps were taken towards providing suitable accommodation for this new organization . |
| 3 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 4 | History , for Nicol , is not the simple matter that it seems for Crichton-Smith , ‘ because afterwards is where we live , where we can resolve what happened , according to one , according to another ’ . |
| 5 | The norm of " the language as a whole " is not the objective reality that it seems to be in Bloch 's definition , and some less absolute standard of comparison has to be found ( see 2.4 ) . |
| 6 | Ironically , this intervention was felt to be unhelpful to the Prime Minister because it seemed to lend legitimacy to the possibility of a contest in the autumn . |
| 7 | And it occu It seemed to me therefore that really one could only consider this level o at a strategic issue by looking at the quality of the existing landscape and it seems to me , if the proposition is that you should locate a new settlement to the erm North in the Ryedale sector , er of Greater York , then you 're effectively turning planning on its head because I think the usual approach is to try and steer development to less attractive areas rather than put them in better quality areas . |
| 8 | Well , the cape would do no more than implicate Putt in the rape of the gipsy girl and it seems she 's married and gone . |
| 9 | ‘ When they came in they talked of the first team and it seemed an offer I could n't refuse ; with hindsight , I should never have gone . ’ |
| 10 | They will be able to weigh up the advantages of breaking a law and not doing so ; and they will tend to choose the former path if it seems likely to secure economic and career advancement . |
| 11 | Yet the very study of mythology from a scientific attitude distanced modern man at the same time as it seemed to bring him closer . |
| 12 | So his strategy made sense at the same time as it seemed wantonly ruinous . |
| 13 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 14 | His wrist still throbbed from his fight with the Big Chicken but it seemed to be the only part of him that still had feeling ; the rest had retired bleeding but numbed into some secret cave of its own . |
| 15 | Video re-runs hinted that Dowie had impeded a defender thus giving Quinn the necessary space but it seemed a harsh decision . |
| 16 | ( In Example 90 , the triads are so frequently of the augmented type that it seems probable that the harmony was composed first and the horizontal outline of each voice delineated only afterwards . |
| 17 | People have just about got used to the new structure and it seems to me that it would behove us all to leave well alone . |
| 18 | They may fear to extend love and acceptance to the new partner as it seems a betrayal of the absent parent . |
| 19 | In monkeys the dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus projects exclusively to the prefrontal catex so it seems reasonable that the dorsomedial nucleus projection zone would correspond to prefrontal cortex in rats . |
| 20 | Then stone me , we opened the NME the next week and it seems we 'd ‘ interviewed ’ the Happy Mondays . |
| 21 | Regional authorities are much happier with a combined approach and it seems possible to retain our individual identity within this framework , while promoting development education ( and allaying the fear of a hidden agenda for fundraising ) . |
| 22 | Yesterday you mentioned that your contractors work to a pre-arranged schedule and it seems possible that they have accidentally omitted this stretch of Station Lane . |
| 23 | However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability . |
| 24 | This is a typical result and it seems that , like the tendons , the early development of the muscles is quite autonomous . |
| 25 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 26 | Thomas was a younger son and it seems he had no interest in the business ; he went to university and became a teacher . |
| 27 | He 's took it bad , he 's a fine weather but it seems like |
| 28 | You put a microcomputer into a primary classroom and it seems to fit . |
| 29 | Beware of resorting to a visual aid because it seems to look impressive . |
| 30 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |