Example sentences of "[adj] that it seem [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Luke said softly , his voice so deep that it seemed to run along her nerves and play a tune like a violin . |
| 5 | The recognition of a closed form is so intense that it seems to condense . |