Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
| 2 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 3 | And that 's not so daft as it seems you know . |
| 4 | ‘ Tucker again ; Exeter , 4 January : Come if you can but it 's not so bad as it seemed . ’ |
| 5 | This interest has kept the Mannheimian tradition alive if not exactly thriving and it seems as if every few years there is a revival of interest . |
| 6 | I soon discovered , of course , that this discipline was not as simple as it seemed — as indeed the author tirelessly points out . |
| 7 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 8 | Reading is not as simple as it seems , and the reader is not as passive a receiver as we once thought . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a lot of method here ; it 's not as arbitrary as it seems , ’ David says of the heady mixture of pattern and texture . |
| 10 | But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems . |
| 11 | This is partly because the comparison of stylistic elements in different media such as vase painting and coinage is not as straightforward as it seems . |
| 12 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 13 | Choosing the trees is not as easy as it seems . |
| 14 | PRINCE 'S new £50 million record contract is not as good as it seems . |
| 15 | This weapon was not as significant as it seemed : a two-thirds majority was needed for the vote to succeed ; the EC budget , despite the costs of the CAP , only amounted to one per cent of the Community 's GDP ; and , if the budget was rejected , the Commission would still have the right to spend money on a month-by-month basis . |
| 16 | However , this is not as tautological as it seems , since it implies a relationship between values and action that is problematic , as we shall see later . |
| 17 | Bourdillon 's figure for this was ‘ the annual provision of not less than 250 volumes for lending and reference purposes per thousand population ’ , but the figure is not as uncomplicated as it seems , since it refers only to new books and not to stock revision ( for which no standard was given ) . |
| 18 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 19 | But it is not as bad as it seems , and it is fairly typical for any dozen books selected at random . |
| 20 | The ascent from here to the summit looks fairly fearsome but it is not as bad as it seems . |
| 21 | Month after month , as the British economy has languished in a deep and damaging recession , the only reaction from a puzzled and beleaguered Government is the claim that it is not as bad as it seems and that good times are round the corner . |
| 22 | They were originally intending to work in Zaire , but the situation is still somewhat unstable and it seems that the time is not quite right for them to go there . |
| 23 | Jane Carter discovers that life on a WPG European Tour is n't always as easy as it seems |
| 24 | Qualifying is a young man 's job , it requires a huge burst of adrenalin ; also , except at Monaco , it is far less significant than it seems . |
| 25 | The concept is not as straight forward as it seems . |
| 26 | The Sphinx : probably carved from rock that had been roughly shaped by the wind , and therefore even more ancient than it seems . |
| 27 | The Arctic Ocean from this distance , about a metre from eyes to surface , is even more wonderful than it seemed in Tromsø . |
| 28 | But initial reactions are n't always right and it seems to me that people are split down the middle . |
| 29 | Finally Big Bear takes Little Bear out to show that the darkness is n't as black as it seems — and he falls asleep in it , in Big Bear 's arms . |
| 30 | Putting on weight is n't as easy as it seems — it 's not just a matter of eating calorie-crammed foods . |