Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it seems " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it does seem to me that erm I ca n't quite understand why it 's possible or it seems to be an argument that you can accommodate a bit more development , squash a bit development into Leeds and Bradford and it does n't matter very much . |
| 2 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 3 | Again , this is easier than it seems and far easier to do than to put into words . |
| 4 | This is I think there is an administrative question how we handle this and it seems to be running very well . |
| 5 | Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ But the language of our Parliament is English and it seems only right that any hospitality I give should be in English too . ’ |
| 8 | but erm , er at a stage that they are in and been for a long time in the States as we will have to er get armed , well I 'm sorry to say this but it seems like it |
| 9 | since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government . |
| 10 | The performances individually are ok but it seems the tactics are wrong . |
| 11 | He says this because it seems pointless for the sun to have done all this work , and then let war spoil everything and killing off the sun 's children . |
| 12 | It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks . |
| 13 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This may be less serious than it seems . |
| 16 | To try to predict the state of the market in five years time is not easy but it seems likely that the products will be more integrated , have a degree of artificial intelligence to provide unskilled operators with advice on how to compose the pages and support colour both through local printing systems and via links to professional equipment . |
| 17 | They do show , though , that the world even now is not quite as crowded as it seems ; that if agriculture was better organized , then it probably would be possible to feed the present human population , and still leave plenty of room for the rest of nature . |
| 18 | Yet neither her choice nor Julia 's is as one-sided as it seems . |
| 19 | have actually mutated themselves in as much as it seems to be that |
| 20 | So these people are important to you , so it 's vitally important that you do n't let them down , because initially this business has a strange effect on you in as much as it seems to take over your mind , does n't it ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 23 | Choosing the trees is not as easy as it seems . |
| 24 | Jane Carter discovers that life on a WPG European Tour is n't always as easy as it seems |
| 25 | Putting on weight is n't as easy as it seems — it 's not just a matter of eating calorie-crammed foods . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Reading is not as simple as it seems , and the reader is not as passive a receiver as we once thought . |
| 28 | But initial reactions are n't always right and it seems to me that people are split down the middle . |
| 29 | The trade in value of this set up is amazingly ( to me ! ) low and it seems to me that all ( all ? ) |
| 30 | ‘ I am sorry if it seems I have tricked you , my dear Watson . |