Example sentences of "it seems [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems impossible for a well-selling pop record to vanish from the face of the earth , but it actually seems to have happened here . |
| 2 | It seems impossible to me that she can not be brought back to life , that such a person can not be brought back to normal life . |
| 3 | Because the computers on which most desktop publishing software runs are capable of displaying colour it seems logical to the software developer that they should introduce colour into their desktop publishing programs . |
| 4 | It seems logical to me that funds earmarked for those who die or can not keep premiums up , could well be used to swell terminal bonus pay-outs for others . |
| 5 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 6 | Nowadays , with psychedelic craziness back on the agenda , it seems overdue for a revival . |
| 7 | It seems extraordinary to today 's parents in England and the United States that women of the twenties and thirties should have been prepared to accept either the content of these pronouncements or the authoritarian tone in which they were made ; yet accepted they were , in that innumerable women made valiant efforts to stifle their natural desire to cuddle their babies and to feed them when they were hungry , or were wracked with guilt and shame when they ‘ mawkishly ’ rocked the child or sentimentally eased his stomach pangs in the small hours with a contraband couple of ounces . |
| 8 | And turning away from calls to battle and the accompanying rise in blood pressure , it seems reasonable for teachers of literature to go on teaching what they have been trained to teach , and what they like , understand , and are familiar with , without also having to take on many varieties of history — intellectual , cultural , political , social , economic , artistic , and musical — not to mention sociology , the study of popular culture , including the merest graffito , and , inevitably , literary theory . |
| 9 | It seems strange at first that this should have been so . |
| 10 | It seems strange to me to see cattle out in a field in mid-winter . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , it seems strange to me that all my friends do n't want to join me . |
| 12 | Yet it seems strange to me that given the possibility of professional marketing for such an encounter , rugby is missing an opportunity to make its case outwith its heartland . |
| 13 | And it seems strange in an area where we just lost General Hospital and everything has moved to , that , which is a nationally renowned hospital . |
| 14 | I 'll probably wish I 'd never mentioned the matter , but it seems necessary to me at the moment , so there it is . |
| 15 | It seems necessary for it to have what has been called a ‘ cognitive map ’ in its head ; that is , it would have to have something which conveyed the same information as is conveyed by Figure 10 . |
| 16 | Yet it seems inconceivable to be able to do so without investing every creature from worms and viruses , which follow very precise cycles of action , to the higher mammals , with the sagacity and foresight of seasoned desert nomads or intrepid Viking explorers . |
| 17 | It seems alive in my hands . |
| 18 | It seems sure to be close and this is probably a race best watched but if forced to pass judgement , a narrow vote is advised for Katabatic . |
| 19 | Although it seems contrary to all logic … ’ |
| 20 | It seems odd at first sight that Celsus senior should have been of this view , and odder that he managed to persuade Ducenius Varus ( consul in AD 95 ) and his colleagues that it was the correct one . |
| 21 | It seems ironic at a time of mounting concern about the excessive hours of junior hospital doctors . |
| 22 | ‘ It seems preferable to sitting here for goodness knows how long twiddling my thumbs . ’ |
| 23 | It seems appropriate at the present time , therefore , that the suspicion of PVI , particularly in patients with decompensated liver disease as indicated by the presence of an appreciably reduced portal blood flow , needs to be confirmed by conventional arterial portography . |
| 24 | If it seems appropriate for you to sell , I promise you I will be back to you immediately . |
| 25 | It seems appropriate for such a nice day , ’ she had told him . |
| 26 | Some might think this a rather idiosyncratic approach to a primarily theoretical topic , but it seems appropriate to this book . |
| 27 | It seems ridiculous for me to try and offer excuses why we were so comprehensively beaten , but the fact that we were well below full strength certainly gave Alborne a ten-goal advantage . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ It seems pointless to me now . ’ |
| 30 | It seems pointless to me . ’ |