Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular the sharpened leading-notes ( a feature of some of his other editions ) are in this small space especially intrusive and seem stylistically odd , leading to a situation in the Credo where the plainchant itself has to be altered to accommodate the harmony , which I understood was against the commonly-accepted rules of musica ficta . |
| 2 | Previously , she had felt that the activities provided for retired people were not sufficiently mind-stretching and seemed to be based on younger people 's vision of what pensioners wanted . |
| 3 | And so it was that a man who had tried his hand at a whole variety of working-class jobs but who was no friend of the labour unions could , as part of his episodic film Intolerance , quite effortlessly recreate a clash between workers and police that is so lifelike as to seem like a newsreel and to suggest that perhaps every subsequent labour riot followed its pattern . |
| 4 | He thought back and … and it was all so confused and seemed so long ago . |
| 5 | She chose a slightly flared skirt of fawn flannel , plain white silk shirt with a demurely high neckline , a jacket in soft pastel-brown tweed with a standing collar , absolutely plain but very expensive Italian court shoes and a matching handbag that was small enough to be ladylike but not so small as to seem frivolous . |
| 6 | All this is exceedingly American and seems even more so at a time , in the cinema at least , where men love men best and occasionally try for sex with women . |
| 7 | For our decade-conscious brains , an event that happens only once per aeon is so rare as to seem a major miracle . |
| 8 | Highly irregular but seems to have had no ill effects . |
| 9 | Charlotte lifted out a large bag of pale , soft leather , so limp as to seem empty , and lifted her eyebrows in surprise at the weight of the small , brown-paper-wrapped box that dragged down one corner of it . |
| 10 | However , Kenneth Clark , who replied for the government , was not encouraging and seemed to accept the pessimistic view of Neville Trotter , Conservative MP for Tyne mouth , who blamed all the problems on Korean labour costs which were only 20% of those in the UK . |
| 11 | Jack was not satisfied and seemed to think that there was a middle view between the two . ’ |
| 12 | Myeloski was still half-asleep and seemed more in control of the machine in that state . |
| 13 | Minton , meanwhile , became more and more extrovert and seemed determined to break all the rules . |
| 14 | K-ras codon 12 mutation , however , is much more common and seems to be related to size and degree of dysplasia . |
| 15 | He was still naked and seemed so relaxed in that state that she wondered if he often wandered around like that . |
| 16 | The history of education is littered with discarded phrases , phrases which were once fashionable and seemed to encapsulate the spirit of a Utopia soon to be born . |
| 17 | Its plan is also incomplete but seems to resemble a porticoed house with projecting wings . |
| 18 | If they 'd been wise and told their government that this tax should not happen , as indeed many of their former ministers , like Michael Heseltine said , they 'd said it was incredibly complicated although seemed sounding easy , and would in fact bring higher levels of taxation to the lowest income people , then er if the local tories had actually acted on that and put pressure on their central party , perhaps their government would n't be in such a mess about this issue now . |
| 19 | Until about 1934 the Establishment explanation of these phenomena was remarkably unconvincing and seems to have reflected mainly a desire not to be asked embarrassing questions . |
| 20 | Also , after just one day they turn quite dry and seem almost too stale to eat . |
| 21 | For Pugwash had turned deathly pale and seemed about to faint . |
| 22 | He was quite fluent but seemed to read without comprehension . |
| 23 | This was remarkably precise and remarkably misleading and seems once again to have been based essentially on Chinese communist capability . |
| 24 | It is masculinity at its most macho that seems to fascinate men . |
| 25 | There was admittedly a fiki but he was very restrained and seemed anxious to keep himself invisible at the back . |
| 26 | Labour 's agnostic compromise was too clumsy and seemed more like cynical calculation to voters . |
| 27 | The effects of the uncertainty principle will then become very important and seem to point to some remarkable results . |
| 28 | Holyhead mayor Tom Ross added : ‘ He was very happy and seemed to be in good spirits . |
| 29 | On the face of it , this is very alarming and seems to imply that giving your baby cow 's milk will have her haemorrhaging blood . |
| 30 | On the first occasion Mr Reynolds met the stoma care nurse he was very quiet and seemed reluctant to discuss anything . |