Example sentences of "seem [prep] be so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was our prize for writing an essay , but he was a human being , this this teacher , he seemed to be so friendly towards us , you know . |
| 2 | Central policy seemed to be so prejudiced against the Ukraine that it evoked the suspicion in several foreign observers that this particular national minority was being deliberately neglected as a punishment for its hostility to Russian rule in the Civil War . |
| 3 | Mortimer seemed to be so supportive , he seemed really interested in me as a friend , he believed in my design abilities … but then it all changed , it was like a nightmare . |
| 4 | I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision . |
| 5 | It 's just that — at first he seemed to be so nice , he was so charming , he was a lot of fun — most of the time — and I did n't realise that was all he really wanted from me . |
| 6 | For twelve months , I 've been trying to er , when I realised that that was put on my cleaning bill , it seemed to be so unfair that the little ol and the lady who , up till now has has cleaned for me , because the home help service , no longer just does cleaning . |
| 7 | Immediately a great roar of applause broke out , and Gurney looked at the audience , and this time his self-satisfied smirk seemed to be so obvious , to George at any rate , that he could not understand how the audience too could fail to see it . |
| 8 | He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other . |
| 9 | It seemed to be so physical , and nothing else . |
| 10 | Some of us seemed to be awkward and the truth , new and the truth , inexperienced , others seemed to be so polished do n't they ? |
| 11 | What we need to do is steal his thunder in some way so that he realises how pointless it would be to write a story or even make any of those veiled suggestions that reporters of his ilk seem to be so good at . ’ |
| 12 | Moreover , most of us seem to be so certain that a first edition is really a first edition . |
| 13 | And yet so many people are pleased with the way they manage to hide their emotions — to maintain that ‘ stiff upper lip ’ of which men in particular seem to be so proud . |
| 14 | Why do people seem to be so anti-gipsy to start out with ? |
| 15 | The main strength of the theory is that it directs attention to the entrepreneurial or innovative personalities who seem to be so important in the developmental process , but even here the theory does tend to ignore the inconsistencies and contradictions that are inherent in explanations based on individual characteristics . |
| 16 | Erm my Guild always say they 're lucky in having me because I 've come back and give them all the information and they seem to be so well-educated themselves now you know . |
| 17 | ‘ I treated my own father abominably and no sin in my whole life now seems to be so serious , ’ Lewis blurted out to a correspondent twenty-five years after A. J. Lewis 's demise . |
| 18 | It also seems to be so wide in scope that it could encompass almost anything . |
| 19 | There are several fabliaux in which the explicit moral seems to be so incongruous in relation to the narrative it accompanies as to be facetious , if not sarcastic . |
| 20 | Cos I said I 'm really surprised , I said I thought you must come at least every week cos she seems to be so confident in the water . |
| 21 | Let us now look at the molecular disk in detail and try to understand why the gas seems to be so different there . |
| 22 | And what I find interesting is that it 's the sheer vitality of the English sound — it 's not just the Liverpool sound , it 's the English sound — the vitality , the sensuality , the letting one 's hair down quality , that is exactly what the Continentals admired in Dunstable , and strangely enough in a way what Elgar 's got — this incredible sort of desire not to be over formal and to break down certain formal barriers which seems to be so characteristic of English music . |
| 23 | Latin and Anglo-Saxon temperaments are at variance about what would constitute an acceptable noise level ; and young people do not seem to be so intolerant of noise as their elders . |
| 24 | And yet does n't Shetland does n't seem so difficult to un maybe it 's because we 're Orcadian but Shetland does n't seem to be so difficult to understand for somebody outside than Orcadian is I wonder why ? |