Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , the fiction of Hollywood merged with fact ; scenes of fantasy portrayed on celluloid for entertainment — like those in Easy Rider had become , it was said , the acted-out realities of a group of people whose minds had been expanded to breaking point , until they performed deeds so indescribably vile that it barely seemed possible that one human being could inflict such wounds upon another for no apparent reason . |
| 2 | That it never seems boring is due first , of course , to the richness of the youthful Mozart 's music ; but given the fantastical convolutions of the story even that might not be enough . |
| 3 | And it also seems likely that Pius XII wanted the cardinals to act as papal legates , representatives of the pope in their different territories , ensuring through the bishops under their charge that true doctrine was taught to the laity . |
| 4 | The society is at present having a book sale , offering British Oceanographic Vessels at the reduced price of £9 , and it therefore seems appropriate to mention the volume at this time . |
| 5 | Most important , the real paper , as opposed to the dummy , would be ‘ produced with professional staff , an extensive newsgathering network and extensive resources , and it therefore seems certain that it will be more impressive than the dummy issue ’ , they grandly announced . |
| 6 | However , in cases on other provisions of the Act reported to date the courts have adopted a broad , purposive , interpretation , and it therefore seems reasonable to assume that s3 could apply to all the situations described . |
| 7 | As I have shown above , there is a strong tendency in the organization to dismiss the social sciences , and it therefore seems fair to suggest that any police officer who elects to read for a degree in that discipline is knowingly placing himself into a position of outsider . |
| 8 | The Bishop said the translator had attended very carefully to all the criticisms and it now seemed likely that we would have to wait until at least the end of the summer before the English edition appears . |
| 9 | These have dramatically altered and of course improved archaeologists ' knowledge about the duration of various episodes within pre-history , and it now seems possible that archaeology , and particularly prehistoric archaeology , will eventually have a dated historical sequence as clear as that used by historians . |
| 10 | This was before the building of New Bridge Road and it now seems impossible that the large convoy of vehicles could ever make its way over the narrow bridges leading into the city . |
| 11 | ESA has already spent millions of dollars on Columbus , and it now seems likely that the redesign of Freedom will require a corresponding change in its space laboratory . |
| 12 | Since then the population of Stockport has increased and , no doubt , its wealth has increased also , and it certainly seems extraordinary that the School now should be an entire failure . |
| 13 | Now the receipt of unsolicited junk mail may seem a relatively trivial matter ( though for some , who seem to regard their letter-box as part of their person , it is an affront ) — and it certainly seems effective as a marketing device . |
| 14 | If it now seems self-evident that monitoring of the global environment is necessary , indeed is even vital , the prediction of what is likely to happen is almost as important : the 170 000 people in the Maldives are understandably worried about the prospect of global sea-level change since no part of the islands is more than 2 m above present sea-level ! |
| 15 | It was an answer that did not mean much to me then and I confess that it means very little to me today : it is not only a rather arid and pompous definition , which seems to drain the idea of God of imaginative life , but it also seems arrogant — even hubristic . |
| 16 | No doubt both tendencies arose in part because the voters themselves became more strongly partisan at that time ; but it also seems likely that television became more strictly impartial ( thereby offending both Labour and Conservative partisans more ) while the press became more stridently partisan ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 17 | It is clear that the role need not always be undertaken by a social worker , but it also seems clear that in situations of family complexity , or personal loss of morale , social workers have particular skills to offer . |
| 18 | Oh , no , oh , no , I 'm not suggesting you do , but it just seems unkind of erm , clobbering them sort of both ways . |
| 19 | But it soon seemed natural for one man to be held first among equals ; or the first prominent convert in a city , like Stephanas at Corinth ( 1 Cor. 16 : 15–16 ) , might form a community round his household . |
| 20 | The computer misuses act sounds like another law which might help , it 's enforced at this police unit in London , but it too seems powerless to stop outsiders impersonating or bribing their way to get hold of personal data . |
| 21 | Many of these are , and will be , disputed , but it still seems probable that such collisions must be considered as a regular feature of earth history . |
| 22 | Since both Koreas joined the UN in September 1991 , it looks slightly more possible that the two Chinas could be members as well ; but it still seems unlikely that China , committed to opposing formal Taiwanese independence by force , would allow it . |
| 23 | So far it has been used only in animal experiments , but it certainly seems effective in reducing the severity of attacks of herpes in guinea-pigs . |
| 24 | But it now seems possible that Pask will never come back to court . |
| 25 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 26 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 27 | Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid . |
| 28 | But it never seemed right ; she would kiss him , for not very long , at the end of each meeting , and he could hold her , feel his arms around her narrow back , his body briefly against hers , but he could feel her tense if his hands went lower than the small of her back , and when he tried to kiss her more deeply , or hold her tighter , she would break away , shaking her head . |
| 29 | Fighting manually is fun after you have mastered it but it gradually seems pointless the more you play . |
| 30 | The visitors were Arsenal and , while it still seems unfair to single out teams in this way , the intensity of attiude recorded by the referee 's hidden microphone made it easier to understand what happened last Saturday . |