Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [pers pn] seem " 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 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 3 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 4 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 5 | She was so slim that she seemed to have no breadth whatever . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The room , painted a white so fresh that it seemed pale blue , was cool and soothing . |
| 10 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many were so hard that they seemed to be made of solid wood while others shattered like eggshells , but were virtually empty . |
| 14 | He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Some of the patterns shown are so elaborate that it seems doubtful that they were woven : some may have been printed with blocks , while others may have been produced by a mixed-medium method , combining printing , embroidery , and appliqué work . |
| 19 | ‘ But it is so naive that it seems unlikely the politicians will want to spend much time on it , ’ says Jean Rankine , the museum 's deputy director . |
| 20 | THE upheaval that shook Eastern Europe felt so natural that it seems pointless to ask why it happened . |
| 21 | For a while they are ‘ egocentric ’ — so self-centred that they seem to be interested only in themselves and their own point of view . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared . |
| 24 | Luke said softly , his voice so deep that it seemed to run along her nerves and play a tune like a violin . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I think he 's fit to go and he 's so unhappy that it seems unkind to keep him caged up . |
| 27 | His face was so familiar that he seemed to have been with the production for weeks . |
| 28 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 29 | Herta is so small that it seems natural to be quite strict with her . |
| 30 | The predators that preyed on the giants were even more spectacular , and by now the name of Tyrannosaurus is so well-known that it seems to be one of the first tongue-twisters mastered by small children . |