Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am sorry if it seems I have tricked you , my dear Watson . |
| 2 | The performances individually are ok but it seems the tactics are wrong . |
| 3 | The machinery of employer reaction may have been rustier than it seemed to be . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry if it seems almost unnatural . |
| 5 | since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government . |
| 6 | I want people to realise the train coming down the track might not be all that it seems . ’ |
| 7 | I want people to realise the train coming down the track might not be all that it seems . ’ |
| 8 | Times may be tough but it seems we 're taking less care of our money than ever before . |
| 9 | Grandmother Hilda Mason , of Clapham , south London , said : ‘ I 'm heartbroken but it seems to be the way young people go about their business these days . ’ |
| 10 | Clearly , some re-thinking will be necessary but it seems both inevitable and desirable that there should be some loosening of the ties between the CNAA and the institutions whose courses it validates . |
| 11 | in in my course of work , I have three grown up sons and I think an awful lot of what we 're talking about is in your own attitude to men , and generally the most difficult men to deal with , I find , are men who for whatever reason , are actually inadequate , a little bit sensitive to women being competent I I have no difficulty at all in dealing with that , but I I 'm aware that it seems significant to me that a lot of the younger women here are much more shall we say , sensitive to erm , what I perceive as being basically male chauvinism . |
| 12 | " You were upset and it seemed simpler to see you both together , but I will now give you information about all the bequests and tell you what I have arranged about probate and death duties . " |
| 13 | It would be sensible to cut off most of her hair , but so much of it had grown when her parents were alive that it seemed somehow unfaithful to their memory to scissor it all away . |
| 14 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 15 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 16 | And it does seem to me that erm I ca n't quite understand why it 's possible or it seems to be an argument that you can accommodate a bit more development , squash a bit development into Leeds and Bradford and it does n't matter very much . |
| 17 | Again , this is easier than it seems and far easier to do than to put into words . |
| 18 | ‘ But the language of our Parliament is English and it seems only right that any hospitality I give should be in English too . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know where the name came from it , it , it 's , it 's , it 's simple and it seemed to work erm |
| 20 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 21 | At first sight , the filter circuit may appear conventional but the presence of the diode D1 is unconventional and it seems as though it is going to be switched off all the time anyway , the anode ( a ) always being at zero potential . |
| 22 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 23 | OVER the last 10 days , tens of thousands of PC users have received a floppy disc from the PC Cyborg Corporation offering information about Aids — but , like the Trojan horse , it is more than it seems . |
| 24 | Scott 's education is uncertain but it seems likely that he attended the cathedral school , Canterbury , and afterwards went to Cambridge University . |
| 25 | The notion is attractive because it seems to be the central organising principle for a lot of discourse . |
| 26 | It is sometimes argued that direct persuasion applied by A to B not to perform his contract is itself the procurement of breach by unlawful means , but the argument is circular and it seems better simply to say that in this form of the tort no use of unlawful means is required . |
| 27 | It turned out they had downclimbed , as it was easier than it seemed from above , but we did n't know that until later . |
| 28 | The recapitulation theory was seductive because it seemed to offer a powerful guide to the reconstruction of those steps in the history of life hidden by gaps in the fossil record . |
| 29 | The misery of these people was indescribable when it seemed to them that all their efforts would be cancelled by war between their country and Germany . |
| 30 | These were songs that laced their natural exuberance with a strain of English satire that was remarkable because it seemed so unaffected . |