Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [conj] it seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taken as a whole , the cost of capital in Japan in 1988–93 will not have been as low as it seemed . |
| 2 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 3 | She chewed on it and thought that it could n't possibly be as rubbery as it seemed . |
| 4 | Some of the great controversies were so trivial that it seemed as if people had positively to search for something to quarrel about . |
| 5 | The weather was so nice that it seemed even the enemy had forgotten us . |
| 6 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And yet Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi argue pretty persuasively that the first invasion was more reasonable than it seemed , and that the second was caused by the first . |
| 11 | He wanted to know whether that was as wild as it seemed . ’ |
| 12 | Um maybe it was particularly controversial because it seemed to be accusing er people , men in the family , particularly fathers , of having abused their children anally with all this sort of y'know homosexual connotations of that which activated the number of , as well as a number of fears about about child sex abuse and being a child abuser , it activated a number of rather more homophobic fears , both among the people so accused and in c our culture generally and er that perhaps explains why this er particular incident was so was so compelling and attracted so much com er publicity , according to Campbell anyway . |
| 13 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |