Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [pron] seem [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where branches are silouetted against the colours of the sunset they must be rich and strong enough to help intensify the sense of the light coming through then , but not so rich that they seem to close , or start to compete with the same thing happening in the ripples that form their reflection . |
| 2 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 3 | She was so slim that she seemed to have no breadth whatever . |
| 4 | Some of the poems in the present book , only his second , are so old that I seem to remember some of them from another world . |
| 5 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 6 | If this happened , the style of projecting our intentions and emotions into other animals , which we all find so easy and which seems to flow from a belief in evolution , will often lead us astray . |
| 7 | We are told much less of Mrs Tibbs 's appearance — only , indeed , that she is ‘ somewhat short in stature ’ — while the opening sentence , which describes her personality , is comparatively so brief that she seems to reflect the house , not vice versa . |
| 8 | He was so large that he seemed to fill the tiny area with his presence , and as he sat down his knees brushed hers beneath the table . |
| 9 | Luke said softly , his voice so deep that it seemed to run along her nerves and play a tune like a violin . |
| 10 | Our father , Fa , was an agent for India 's Inland Navigation so that we ( our mother , Mam , my three sisters , Jon , Nancy and Rose , and I ) lived on the banks of Assam 's and Bengal 's great rivers , sometimes two miles wide , flowing through land so flat that it seemed to meet the sky all round like an inverted bowl . |
| 11 | His face was so familiar that he seemed to have been with the production for weeks . |
| 12 | Encased in work before the workplace is even reached , the striding man is so grainy that he seems made of coal particles . |
| 13 | The recognition of a closed form is so intense that it seems to condense . |