Example sentences of "seemed so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the early to mid-'80s , The Wasp Factory 's prole art debut would not have seemed so brave , but in releasing an album bound to infuriate and confuse most who cross its path at this time they really are pressing their luck . |
| 32 | For a brief moment the one-man show had seemed so promising and he had dared to hope . |
| 33 | If there is regret over the failure of Resolution 242 as a blueprint for peace , which had seemed so promising in 1967 , there are grounds for even greater regret that the 1949 ( IVth ) Geneva Convention has not been vigorously upheld by those who claimed to be seeking a basis for peace . |
| 34 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |
| 35 | What had seemed so fresh and enticing at first was now stale , predictable . |
| 36 | It had always seemed so hard , that saying about the rich man and the kingdom of heaven . |
| 37 | The thing which had seemed so hard was simple now , the gulf that had appeared unbridgable shrank to a child 's leap , and vanished as he stepped over it . |
| 38 | It had seemed so important to make a good impression , to show him that she had risen above the way of life in the alleys , but it was a selfish , uncaring side of her he had seen . |
| 39 | It had all seemed so different at the start of the campaign . |
| 40 | She 'd always seemed so self-contained , so self-sufficient . |
| 41 | When she had telephoned Robert about breakfast-time , asking to see him about an important matter , he had seemed so astonished that the only place he had been able to suggest was here . |