Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that it seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 2 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 3 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 4 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 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 | The room , painted a white so fresh that it seemed pale blue , was cool and soothing . |
| 7 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
| 8 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 11 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 12 | Luke said softly , his voice so deep that it seemed to run along her nerves and play a tune like a violin . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 15 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 16 | Some of the great controversies were so trivial that it seemed as if people had positively to search for something to quarrel about . |
| 17 | The weather was so nice that it seemed even the enemy had forgotten us . |
| 18 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 19 | Eventually the tears dried up , but still she did n't move , lying there listlessly , feeling so brittle that it seemed the smallest of movements would scatter her into a thousand pieces . |
| 20 | And the weather outside sounded so bad that it seemed wise to stay as she was a little longer . |
| 21 | 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 . |