Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [pers pn] seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think in some cases , Stanley , not only in the me , medical profession the more people are paid the less committed they seem to be to the job ! |
| 2 | I saw that he had a pompous side to him , so certain he seemed in taste and judgement . |
| 3 | that 's my fear coming , that 's what makes me run away from her , I was so scared it seems to be either come like , what you call ? |
| 4 | The more television you watch the more depressed you seem to be . |
| 5 | I was saying how odd it seemed to me that you did n't park your car in the twenty-minute car-park . ’ |
| 6 | She wrote , ‘ You ca n't imagine how strange it seemed to be journeying thus , without any visible cause for progress other than the magical machine , with its flying white breath and rhythmical , unvarying pace … ‘ |
| 7 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 8 | Tension eases with the passage of time , no matter how unbearable it seems at the outset . |
| 9 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 10 | Dad came in and I was struck by how handsome he seemed with his moustache freshly waxed and his hair brushed flat and parted in the middle . |
| 11 | There were ornaments worth many guineas and pictures , however weird they seemed to her , which she had been told were of great artistic merit . |
| 12 | However well-integrated they seem to be , they are still outsiders , as well as insiders , and they have to work with this double agency . |
| 13 | And although as I say people were very poor they seem to be very happy some of them . |
| 14 | Very inaccessible it seemed to me . |